Current Events > why hasn't medical science found the cure for hiccups yet?

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this is some bullshit

We are doomed if we dont

Burping cures mine.

Chugging a glass of water always fixes mine.

You just gotta remember you're not a fish.

Sneezing fits >_<

drinking from the far side of a glass has a 100% success rate for me

NO2_Fiend posted...

Burping cures mine.

didn't work

Villain_S_Fiend posted...

Chugging a glass of water always fixes mine.

also didn't work

LordFarquad1312 posted...

You just gotta remember you're not a fish.

I think I knew that? breathing air is like half the problem

just be toothless

Did you try not getting them in the first place? The cure to getting bisected in half vertically is for it to not happen at all.

thronedfire2 posted...

I think I knew that? breathing air is like half the problem

You gotta believe harder than that, I bet deep down you still think youre a fish. Maybe try therapy?

I remember in highschool someone got the hiccups. As a joke I thought I'd play on the old "getting scared cures hiccups" cliche and did a random yell to startle them.

It actually worked. <_<

someone told me that inhaling something lighter than regular air works, so now I have to smoke and report back what happens

Eating a packet of sugar works for me.

Irony posted...

Did you try not getting them in the first place? The cure to getting bisected in half vertically is for it to not happen at all.

The cure is Git Gud

The longest recorded case of the hiccups lasted for 68 years.

Go for the record.

A sip of lemon juice works every time for me

SAlYAN posted...

The longest recorded case of the hiccups lasted for 68 years.

Go for the record.

that has to be a lie

I had them for 3 days straight once and wanted to die

thronedfire2 posted...

that has to be a lie

I had them for 3 days straight once and wanted to die

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

My go-to is taking a deep breath and swallowing a few times.

Spoonful of peanut butter gets rid of them for me.

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

As a chronic hiccuper, once I discovered this technique it all ended. I've tried just about all of them.

Step 1: Fill your lungs to the maximum with air.

Step 2: Plug your nose and close your mouth holding the maximum air in your lungs.

Step 3: Swallow two or three times. The last swallow should be hard to accomplish.

Step 4: Exhale slowly through he mouth, keeping nose plugged.

Step 5: Breath normal hiccup free.

well

my hiccups are gone now

Sip of vinegar will cure you.

Hold your breath. Keep holding it until you think you can't hold it any longer, then continue holding anyway.

No, you can't pass out. Your body won't let that happen. No matter how you might try, your body will eventually make you take a breath. When it does, hiccups should be gone.

It always works for me. No prescription necessary.

I try to drink some water but let it sit basically in my throat without swallowing.

It works 100% for me.

pjnelson posted...

Hold your breath. Keep holding it until you think you can't hold it any longer, then continue holding anyway.

No, you can't pass out. Your body won't let that happen. No matter how you might try, your body will eventually make you take a breath. When it does, hiccups should be gone.

It always works for me. No prescription necessary.

Yeah, this is what I do, although I don't really do it to the point of discomfort. I just exhale, inhale deep again, and repeat a few times.

QUIT IT!!!

That work?

smoking and/or walking worked.

the cure is a spoonful of peanut butter