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I have the hiccups

  • 30-10-2009 11:16pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭


    Please help me get rid of them :(

    I've tried holding my breath, drinking water upside-down.....


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    Don't mind any of them remedies. None work. They will go away...eventually.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    BOO!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Regulate your breathing, big, deep and slow breaths.


    Or:

    BOO!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Smoking is also not good. The last drag hasnt come back out :(

    Maybe it will if i fart?

    /but girls dont fart or poo I'm gonna combust, arent i?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Kiera wrote: »
    /but girls dont fart or poo I'm gonna combust, arent i?

    Yup. Happens every day.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Stick a bag over your head?







    **Wait a minute! Maybe it's breathe in a bag?**


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Hit your head off the nearest wall while taking short, sharp breaths.

    It actually works....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Hold your breath and while holding it swallow three times, helps if you build up some saliva first. Its quite hard to do but it works everytime for me. No lie!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭9wetfckx43j5rg


    I have a technique that works every time.

    Make sure your somewhere quiet, no distractions. Then try and say Mississippi before every hiccup.

    Only if you can intensely concentrate on waiting for the hiccup, imagine what it's going to feel like, the noise, everything, it won't come and your hiccups will be gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭blueshark22


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Hold your breath and while holding it swallow three times, helps if you build up some saliva first. Its quite hard to do but it works everytime for me. No lie!

    Yup this is the trick , works EVERY time for me too!!!:)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Hiccups can be a sign of pregnancy, where the lungs are trying to keep up with the extra demand for oxygen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Hold your breath and while holding it swallow three times, helps if you build up some saliva first. Its quite hard to do but it works everytime for me. No lie!
    Oh my god, that actually worked. Wow! Thanks a mill, you wonderful man :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Hiccups can be a sign of pregnancy, where the lungs are trying to keep up with the extra demand for oxygen.
    You'd have to have sex to get pregnant!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Kiera wrote: »
    Oh my god, that actually worked. Wow! Thanks a mill, you wonderful man :)

    Told ya... Works everytime!!!!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    Well, what ever ya do, don't throw up, it's a waste of good drink.

    "Dr Bollocko to AH, stat..."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I can't swallow while holding my breath :(


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    well next time try a spoonful of sugar ( I know) if the swallowing doesn't work....:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    phasers wrote: »
    I can't swallow while holding my breath :(
    No one likes a spitter, phasers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    phasers wrote: »
    I can't swallow while holding my breath :(

    How do you usually swallow?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    A spoonful of honey always works for me. If that don't work, just swallow the spoon as well. May not cure the hiccups, but it will certainly take your mind off them.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    Kiera wrote: »
    You'd have to have sex to get pregnant!

    :eek: But, but, but, but,

    That's me not going to mass Sunday now!

    Wait till i tell the nun! It's all a big lie!

    Next you'll be telling me there's no Sant........ No, i can't even say it.


    glad you're better :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Kiera wrote: »
    No one likes a spitter, phasers!
    I do it discreetly into a handkerchief

    You never even notice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    Ginny wrote: »
    well next time try a spoonful of sugar ( I know) if the swallowing doesn't work....:D

    What he said. I read it in a book and it does seem to work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Hold your breath and while holding it swallow three times, helps if you build up some saliva first. Its quite hard to do but it works everytime for me. No lie!

    Yep, and if it doesnt work the first time just pinch your nostrils shut and do it again. If it doesn't work after that then you will probably die soon.

    Sorry about the last bit, its Halloween :)


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    he? HE?.....:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    Ginny wrote: »
    he? HE?.....:D

    That's the last time I use an avatar as a basis for judging gender.

    A valuable lesson.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    :D no probs..:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭vestanpance


    Kiera wrote: »
    Smoking is also not good. The last drag hasnt come back out :(

    Maybe it will if i fart?

    /but girls dont fart or poo I'm gonna combust, arent i?

    Well if you have another smoke you might.
    Kiera wrote: »
    You'd have to have sex to get pregnant!

    I'm sure there's something smart to be said here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera




    I'm sure there's something smart to be said here.
    But you just cant think of it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭vestanpance


    Kiera wrote: »
    But you just cant think of it?

    Nope, that's what too much drink does to you. I'll get it eventually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Hold your breath and while holding it swallow three times, helps if you build up some saliva first. Its quite hard to do but it works everytime for me. No lie!


    variation on this, hold your breath and ask yourself 4 questions and answer them in your head. can be something like what's my name 4 times.
    the time you're holding your breath will knock the hiccups on the head. helps if the saliva isn't forthcoming!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Hold your breath and while holding it swallow three times, helps if you build up some saliva first. Its quite hard to do but it works everytime for me. No lie!

    As a long time barman, I had to cure the hiccups on a regular basis. Something quite similar to what Hogzy said works everytime as well.

    Get a pint of water. Have someone cover both of you ears and begin to drink the water without stopping until you finish the pint.

    The hiccups will be history.


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