I had the hiccups once for three days straight and I thought I was gonna snap. I can't imgine this:

 

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walk into traffic

Poor girl. That must suck completely. Hopefully they can get rid of it soon. I can't even imagine...

that would really suck, hopefully it stops soon.

I always liked having the hiccups, cuz it made me laugh when I did hiccup. Then again, I never had them for more than like an hour, so I imagine I really can't compare my situation to hers.

 

Hopefully she gets rid of them.

Whats wierd is how often she hiccups, it's constant.

Since it's basically a muscle spasm, I wonder if some powerful muscle relaxers would work.

Hiccups after like 5 minutes drive me insane. I can't even imagine something like this.

I had the hiccups once for three days straight and I thought I was gonna snap. I can't imgine this:

 

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I had them for 2 days once. It really was a nightmare. I actually went home from work because it was so distracting. I didn't dare call in w/ that excuse, I went in and my boss fully supported me going home.

 

If memory serves me right, I think I ended up calling my doctor and he told me to take some sort of cough syrup and they stopped.

 

2nd lamest medical situation I've had is I went to the ER with a horrible case of swimmers ear.

Mine was caused by GIRD, or acid reflux.

I cant remember the last time I had hiccups, but if I had them for more then a few minutes I would do anything to get rid of them.

That would SUCK! I always wondered how it was possible that someone could have them for so long.

Not saying I could get rid of her case of the hiccups, but here are some solid remedies should you ever need to get rid of them. When I tended bar, I had 7 different ways to rid someone of hiccups and never failed to cure them. I think we had to go 6 methods deep once. These are in no particular order.

 

1. Drink water upside down - bend over and drink at least a half glass of water in that position, drinking from the opposite edge of the glass.

 

2. Pour a packet or two of sugar directly into the back of your throat.

 

3. Drink club soda and bitters (nasty stuff).

 

4. Kiss the person with the hiccups unexpectedly. Just grab them and stick your tongue down their throat kissing them quickly and passionately. Not sure if it is the shock factor or if it has something to do with cutting off their breathing through their mouth, but it works. Note: Not recommended for everyone. You might get rid of her hiccups but might get slugged in the process.

 

I can't remember the others, but these are pretty good remedies to start with.

There's one where you put a napkin over the top of a glass of water, and basically chug the water through the napkin. I've actually seen it work, but I wonder if the napkin part is even necessary. Just guzzling a glass of water might solve the problem itself.

walk into traffic

 

Seconded

I had them for 2 days once. It really was a nightmare. I actually went home from work because it was so distracting. I didn't dare call in w/ that excuse, I went in and my boss fully supported me going home.

 

If memory serves me right, I think I ended up calling my doctor and he told me to take some sort of cough syrup and they stopped.

 

2nd lamest medical situation I've had is I went to the ER with a horrible case of swimmers ear.

 

The lamest thing I ever went into the ER for was an eraser in my ear.....

The lamest thing I ever went into the ER for was an eraser in my ear.....

One of my friends has been to the ER literally 5 times because he gets the cotton from q tips stuck in his ear.

Thats so crazy how she does them so rapidly. Ive heard of people getting these extremely long cases of hiccups, but never ever seen someone do it as much as she did.

Wow hoe does she sleep.

2 minnutes of hiccups piss me off, let alone 3 weeks.

"I have always hoped to win a real Nobel prize for medicine," Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine told New Scientist. Nevertheless, he settled for the Ig Nobel prize in medicine instead, handed out along with nine other Ig Nobel prizes in a Thursday evening ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts, US.

 

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Fesmire, a specialist in emergency medicine and cardiology, probably did not have a real Nobel in mind when he published "Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage" in Annals of Emergency Medicine (vol 17, p 872). He was, it transpires, attempting to help a man who walked into the emergency room after hiccuping for 72 hours at up to 30 times a minute.

 

Runaway electrical impulses in the vagus nerve cause intractable hiccups, so Fesmire attempted to block them by stimulating the nerve. Gagging, tongue pulling, sinus massage and pressing the eyeball to stimulate the vagus all failed to stop the hiccups. Then he remembered reading about a case in which digital rectal massage – inserting a finger into a patient’s anus – had slowed a racing heartbeat, an effect similar to runaway hiccups.

 

"It worked, and the rest is history," he says. He has not needed to go that far again for other patients, but Majed Odeh of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, did a few years later and wrote a paper with the same title that earned him a share of the Ig Nobel.

Link.

Link.

 

so if my future kids cant stop hiccuping, I'm supposed to stick my finger up its butt. Isn't that against the law?

 

"But officer, I was only trying to stop the hiccups!"

Normally I can stop my hiccups by taking a really deep breath and holding it for about 30 seconds. If that doesn't work, I'll drink some water while holding my breath.

I just saw on the news that this girl is cured.

I just saw on the news that this girl is cured.

 

I think I would've offed myself after the first week. I can't stand hiccups.

so if my future kids cant stop hiccuping, I'm supposed to stick my finger up its butt. Isn't that against the law?

 

"But officer, I was only trying to stop the hiccups!"

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