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Comment on How come neither burps nor hiccups are usually painful, but a combination of both is?

When you burp, your stomach contracts and your esophagus relaxes, allowing air to expel. When you hiccup, your diaphragm contracts, and your esophagus relaxes. I dunno. Kinda. I’m mock-hiccupping abs burping as I type this and that seems to be what’s going on).

When all three contract, everything jams up, and that hurts.

Cool story time: Sometimes I hiccup really hard and it’s kind of painful. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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fubbernuckin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My hiccups always hurt. Why does my body have an internal fist it can use to repeatedly punch me in the stomach?

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- solidgrue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You know what you did
  
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- Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think your diaphragm is more like a fist punching you in the lower lungs.
  
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Zelaf@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m imagining someone forcefully hiccuping and burping infront of their computer and then slowly looking into the distance to reflect about it repeatedly.

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loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Best answer, thank you!

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