What cures your hiccups?

[hisno1girl]

This is ridiculous. I'm hiccuping every 10 seconds.

HA*hiccup*LLLLLPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[roadstar]

OK get a glass of water, hold your nose, bend over and drink from the opposite side of the glass. Works for me everytime.

[looseseal]

If they're not induced by drinking, I just try to concentrate on my breathing for a few minutes. Not that it's a cure, but it gives you something to do until they go away!

[regencygirl]

Get a large glass of water and a straw. Drink through the straw while holding your ears shut. My FIL taught me that, I thought it was nuts but it really does work.

[hisno1girl]

Jul 27, 2012 12:48:54 GMT -5 toledo said:

You know what cures hiccups? Someone walking up to you and saying "oh, you have the hiccups? Show me. Hiccup three times. C'mon. Now. Do it!"

This doesn't help you at the moment, His, but I guarantee to the rest of you that it works.

I made DH call me and tell me this but it didn't work.

*hic*

[malibu]

For me, time.

And for whoever's making me laugh hard enough to give me hiccups to stop continuing to make me laugh. That's how I get them.

[Jermys]

A spoonful (or two packets) of sugar. Swear to god.

[fuckyourcouch]

holding my breath just the right way to push my ribcage down on my diaphragm. different ear or nose plugging water drinking. exhaling all the air i can out, and then holding my nose and mouth shut and swallowing 3 times. i hate hiccups!

[lizo11]

Hold your breath, drink your age in swallows of water (they don't have to be big, just tiny sips). Don't breathe until you've swallowed your age. It works every time for me.

[eightangryreindeer]

Taking a really deep breath, holding it, and concentrating on my diaphragm. You have to keep holding your breath until you would have hiccupped again at least once.

[mrsjuleshs]

Drink water with my head upside down.

[ering1115]

Forcing my self to count to 5 breathing in and out sometimes helps.

If not, jamming my hand in between my rib cage (right where your sternum ends and it splits) and rubbing really hard where I think my diaphragm might be to make it stop spasming.

[Deleted]

I drink water from the backside of a cup (like bend forward and drink from the oppostie side). Works everytime.

[Deleted]

Nothing except time.

[Deleted]

Spoonful of sugar.

[lizo11]

Jul 27, 2012 12:58:03 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Jul 27, 2012 12:56:33 GMT -5 lizo11 said:

Hold your breath, drink your age in swallows of water (they don't have to be big, just tiny sips). Don't breathe until you've swallowed your age. It works every time for me.

How old are you? Some of us might be dead by the time we finish!

Lol, 30, but I have convinced much older people to do it and it has worked.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I'm a breath holder, too. Giant breath in, hold for 20 seconds, swallow, breathe normally. If it doesn't work the first time, do it again with a bigger breath.

[augustblue]

Drink 8 gulps of water without breathing or slow down & concentrate on my breathing for a couple mins

[lucky513]

holding my breath always works but I have to hold my breath until I can hold anymore usually repeat a couple of times

[Deleted]

Ask Sara. I don't remember her trick but last time I had the hiccups it worked.

[hisno1girl]

Jul 27, 2012 12:58:03 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Jul 27, 2012 12:56:33 GMT -5 lizo11 said:

Hold your breath, drink your age in swallows of water (they don't have to be big, just tiny sips). Don't breathe until you've swallowed your age. It works every time for me.

How old are you? Some of us might be dead by the time we finish!

I was just going to say, "Do you know how old I am???" I'd be dead but my hiccups would stop, so maybe that's the cure: The sweet relief of death.

I held my breath until I saw sparkles and exhaled as slowly as I could and I think they're gone.

[JamaicanPineapple]

A spoonful of smooth peanut butter. Yummy and it works every time!!

[Deleted]

spoonful of sugar, drinking water from the opposite side of a glass, or, my grandfather swore by a spoonful of peanut butter and that usually works the best for me.

[drrn04]

so, I saw this on one of those Real Life Emergency Room shows (girl came in after having the hiccups for DAYS and not being able to sleep).

Place your thumbs or fingers about one half inch directly above the center of your eyebrows. apply pressure for about 30 seconds. Your hiccups will be gone. That's a vagal pressure point though, so make sure you do it sitting down.

[ElizabethBennet]

Jul 27, 2012 12:54:34 GMT -5 Jermys said:

A spoonful (or two packets) of sugar. Swear to god.

Yep. This is what I always do and it never fails.