SAlYAN posted...
The Curious Case of Charles Osborne, Who Hiccupped for 68 Years Straight https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-curious-case-of-charles-osborne-who-hiccuped-for-68-years-straight-180980232/
Nope
I can't believe that, but I'll check
I don't know how he could deal with that, unless that sort of thing made money back then. I'd be miserable.
I was hanging a 350-pound hog for butchering, Osborne told
People
magazine in 1982. I picked it up and then I fell down. I felt nothing, but the doctor said later that I busted a blood vessel the size of a pin in my brain. (The doctor in question, Terence Anthoney, posited that Osbornes fall destroyed a small area in the brain stem that inhibits the hiccup response.)
if there's an area in the brain stem that inhibits hiccup response, then doctors really should have figured it out by now.
On average, Osborne experienced 20 to 40 involuntary diaphragm spasms per minute. In total, he hiccupped an estimated 430 million times before his death in May 1991 at age 97.
I couldn't do it. that's 20-40+ seconds out of every minute.
According to the Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
Argus Leader
, a physician at the Mayo Clinic managed to stop the hiccups by placing him on carbon monoxide and oxygen, but the treatment had a (literally) fatal flaw: namely, that Osborne couldnt safely breathe in the poisonous gas.
oh...so the earliest doctors determined that
death
was one possible solution. I'm on board with them.
holy shit, it must have been really easy to become a doctor if you were a rich white guy back then.
Instead, he had to settle for learning a breathing technique that minimized the characteristic hic sound, which is caused by the sudden closure of the vocal cords after an involuntary contraction. To suppress the noise, Osborne breathed in between hiccups.
Hed flex his chest three or four times every minute, says Koskovich, who knew one of Osbornes sons and now lives in nearby Correctionville, Iowa. You could tell he was hiccupping, but he wouldnt make any noise. He heavedthats the best way to describe it.
I've just been going with keeping my mouth closed to trap the noise in so far..but I'm still hiccupping on the inside :(
I'm gonna go take a walk and smoke now to see if that treatment coupled with exercise gives me enough oxygen deprivation to defeat the hiccups
Unsuprised_Pika posted...
Eating a packet of sugar works for me.
I'm a likely candidate for unchecked diabetes so this might kill me faster