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• Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holding my breath works for me, or maybe it just passes the time. Usually goes away in about 2 full breaths.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah. Oxygen deprivation releases the reflex, but you have to hold your breath, so long that it hurts.

    There have actually been studies why that is.

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    • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why is that?

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doing a whip it cures hiccups

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  BOO!

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes but I have a fear boner too.

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  • Houseman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahh!

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• tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ever get hiccups together with acid reflux? That’s an extra special level of hell.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Holy fuck I cant imagine.

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• shittydwarf@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Drinking from the far side of a glass has never not stopped my hiccups

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  • Bongles@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand what that means. How do you drink from the far side of a glass?

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    • shittydwarf@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You lean over top of the glass, and use your lower lip to control the flow, and swallow in this position

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It sounds (and presumably looks) stupid but this is the only method that actually works for me.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A friend of mine told a story about his brother who had a major surgery in his abdomen and HAD to control his chronic hiccups while in recovery. His doctors helped. I don’t even remember all the remedies he mentioned because there were several and the point was that each person can be different so you have to figure out what works for you.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Omfg… chronic hiccups…

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not nonstop or anything - he just got them often.

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  • CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m curious what the doctors remedies for hiccups were, that didn’t involve inflating his abdomen. My go-to trick for curing hiccups is taking in a deep breath as deep as physically possible, then swallowing as many times as I can while holding my breath. But that wouldn’t be great during abdominal rest because taking in a deep breath causes the belly to expand.

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• tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have found a method that works 100% of the time for me. It sounds silly but bear with me. After the hiccup starts, I tell myself “hiccups arent real” or some equivalent phrase, in my inner voice, as convincingly as possible. Like I actually believe it. It stops immediately, before the second hiccup.

  I am spreading this method among friends and family, I would say around a third of then report successes, but Im pretty sure not all of them have tried it seriously and some brush it off as bs.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok next time i have them i will do that.

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    • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please try and report back, Im always curious if it works for others.

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  • fennesz12@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Its the hiccup illuminati”

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Breathe shallow but slow, relax. Hickup is a cramp in the diaphragm, mostly caused through stress.

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  • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can confirm this works. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve stopped hiccups doing this. Best if it’s done right away when the episode starts.

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• KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My wife gets bad hiccups sometimes. I meanwhile can just control my diaphragm and stop hiccuping on command. She doesn’t seem to find that very fair.

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  • video@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same with my wife… But I just remind her that she is not a fish and she thinks about it for a second and she stops hiccuping.

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• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t really do it to yourself, but I’ve had really good luck ending other people’s hiccups by offering them $5 if they hiccup again

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha!!!

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• goldenquetzal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gargling and/or drinking upside down have always worked for me. Hiccups suck

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My partner and I discovered that whip its are a 100% sure cure

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• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hiccups are involuntary muscle spasms. Applying heat can help stop muscle spasms. Drinking large gulps of very warm water (as warm as possible) has stopped hiccups for me 100% of the time.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh wow!

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• FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hiccups suck so bad, people will try all manner of crazy witchcraft to get rid of them.

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• taygaloocat@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never understood why people tolerate the hiccups. You just keep holding your breath. If you hiccup while holding your breath you take another breath and start again until it’s gone. I’ve never had the hiccups for more than a minute.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never worked for me, which explains your confusion.

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• RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone who gets the hiccups 10-20x a day every day for the last 16 years, fuck hiccups

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  • clif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you endure? I don’t know if I could do that…

    You must be exceedingly strong with a fortitude to rival mountains.

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    • RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is what it is. I have permanent nerve damage and randomly get bouts of hiccups throughout the day. Sometimes it will be just 2 or 3, sometimes it lasts for a long time. It’s annoying to say the least. But otherwise harmless. They’re the least of my issues so I try to pay them no mind, but they can of course be obtrusive.

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• MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hold your breath count to 10 in your head if you hiccup start again until you get to 10

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spoonful of vinegar does the trick

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• AgentSeven@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter. It works.

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  • ARealAlaskan@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every time.

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My dog having the hiccups is the cutest thing ever. But everything he does is cute. Burping is cute too.

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• flowque@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My remedy was almost always a teaspoon of mustard.

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• fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just breathe real slow for like 2 mins and by the time I start breathing manually, it’s gone. Nothing painful, nothing required.

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• dmtalon@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, I’m glad I’m not the only one…

  I despise the hiccups, and do nothing else until I can get rid of them.

  Holding my breath and drinking while continuing to hold my breath works pretty well for me if I can’t straight up will them away!

  My family thinks it’s funny how much I hate them.

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  • StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try a spoonful of sugar

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• plateee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plug your ears and drink water.

  Or drink water upside down.

  These are the treatments that seem to work the best

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just remind yourself you are not a fish and it goes away.

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• tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Giant scoop of peanut butter works EVERY. TIME.

  For me, at least. YMMV.

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• DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Im able to stop hiccups like when i get them i can just turn them off but i dont wanna be left out so FUCK HICCUPS!!

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  water stops mine, but some people can have it pathologically.

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