C - C - Cure for hiccups anyone?

Donkey Oaty

I'll try them as they appear.

starbelgrade

Chop your head off.

/ thread.

Donkey Oaty

starbelgrade wrote: »

Chop your head off.

/ thread.

I will try some of them as they appear.

Pherekydes

Hold your breath until I tell you to exhale.

Start now.

starbelgrade

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

I will try some of them as they appear.

Cop out.

Donkey Oaty

Pherekydes wrote: »

Hold your breath until I tell you to exhale.

Start now.

ok

Rubberlegs

I always turn em into belches and it gets rid of em:D

Fintomiginto

Drink a glass of water upside down, always works, I have made many people do this with a very high success rate, basically put your head between your legs and tip the glass of water into the pallet of your mouth, always works, I guarantee it

Donkey Oaty

Pherekydes wrote: »

Hold your breath until I tell you to exhale.

Start now.

Exhaled after long breath holding - it seems to have worked, despite your apparent attempt to kill me.

Donkey Oaty

Fintomiginto wrote: »

Drink a glass of water upside down, always works, I have made many people do this with a very high success rate, basically put your head between your legs and tip the glass of water into the pallet of your mouth, always works, I guarantee it

Thanks, will try it next time.

El Weirdo

That actually sounds like a stutter, not hiccups.

Donkey Oaty

Hiccups gone.

Breath holding worked.

This is possibly the best thing ever that has happened to me from boards.ie.

I love you guys!

Ollchailin

Yep, the drinking out of a glass backwards thing is the only thing that never fails.

Except that many people can't manage to actually do it for some weird reason...

seanaor

Juggle flaming chainsaws.

Doesnt cure it, but should take your mind off it.

Terry

Fintomiginto wrote: »

Drink a glass of water upside down, always works, I have made many people do this with a very high success rate, basically put your head between your legs and tip the glass of water into the pallet of your mouth, always works, I guarantee it

95% success rate.
Just do it over the bath or sink or jacks or something.

InTheTrees

Chewing gum.

Always worked for me. About two years ago I quit smoking and used nicotine lozenges to ease the pain. one of the side effects, strangely enough, is hiccups. SO i got them a lot, and got to experiment with the various cures.

most of the common cures worked now and again but the one consistent one was chewing gum.

Donkey Oaty

El Weirdo wrote: »

That actually sounds like a stutter, not hiccups.

Yes, but I wanted the tl;dr crowd to contribute as well.

starbelgrade

Have a cigarette.

Donkey Oaty

starbelgrade wrote: »

Have a cigarette.

Always a good idea.

But seriously: the holding breath thing worked for me, first time.

Ricardo G

This also works a treat,
Focus on an object for 2/3 mins and inhale and exhale deeply...... it actually works

sesna

I had hiccups for three days once. Gave me an insight into what life in Guantanamo Bay would be like

tony1kenobi

sesna wrote: »

I had hiccups for three days once. Gave me an insight into what life in Guantanamo Bay would be like

It's the exact same thing.

squod

Two rennie and a half glass of water FTW.

BluesBerry

Suck on a spoonful of sugar the sugar opens up airways or something in the throat

seriously try it it works

Terry

sesna wrote: »

I had hiccups for three days once. Gave me an insight into what life in Guantanamo Bay would be like

I was there for a while.
Told a few people on another site that I was in the process of planning an attack on New York that would make the twin towers attack seem like nothing more than a fireworks display.
****er reported me. One extraordinary rendition later and I was being penetrated by a broom.
Cuba isn't a great place at all.

Donkey Oaty

Pherekydes wrote: »

Hold your breath until I tell you to exhale.

Start now.

Pherekydes' solution worked for me. Tip - ignore this part...

until I tell you to exhale

... or otherwise you might die.

But it worked. It really did.

JaneLane

The 'holding your breath' way never worked for me.

I heard a great one from a HomeEc teacher years ago. It's a bit weird but strangely it works!

Put your fingers in both ears, take a deep breath and then drink something for 5 seconds. Works like a charm, every time!

Donkey Oaty

JaneLane wrote: »

The 'holding your breath' way never worked for me.

I heard a great one from a HomeEc teacher years ago. It's a bit weird but strangely it works!

Put your fingers in both ears, take a deep breath and then drink something for 5 seconds. Works like a charm, every time!

It's going on the list.

Donkey Oaty

BluesBerry wrote: »

Suck on a spoonful of sugar the sugar opens up airways or something in the throat

seriously try it it works

Too late to try this time, but hey - thanks!

natsuko

counting to ten slowly but loudly, taking deep breaths in and exhaling while saying the number. Kinda forces your diagphram to stop having a spa attack. Saw this documentary once where a guy had the hiccups for years but they found out it was a brain tumour pressing on the part of the brain that dealt with respiratory functions. Scary.

Killer Pigeon

9 mouthfuls of water without breathing, it's the cure ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhh4Xs8RcM

abelard

Hold your breath is by far the best way. You need to inhale as deeply as you can. Then when you think your lungs are at capacity, force yourself to inhale more until your diaphragm can't pull your lungs down any further. This way the diaphragm can't physically spasm to cause a hiccup. Hold this for about 30 seconds and the hiccups will be gone, 100%

Killer Pigeon

abelard wrote: »

Hold your breath is by far the best way. You need to inhale as deeply as you can. Then when you think your lungs are at capacity, force yourself to inhale more until your diaphragm can't pull your lungs down any further. This way the diaphragm can't physically spasm to cause a hiccup. Hold this for about 30 seconds and the hiccups will be gone, 100%

I did that once and I felt like my lungs were going to burst.

shampon

FTW.

Hold your nose...hold your eardrums and drink a nice glass of water.

mikerowsopht

willie in vice should do it

I got the loudest hiccups at work one day, all the lads were laughing their heads off at me. I mean really loud
Had to run and hide!! I find holding my breath and then breathing very slowly and deeply for a few min works

prinz

Knock back a teaspoon of vinegar.

Demeyes

Think about your next hiccup, really think about it and it won't come. You focus on it until you don't have hiccups anymore! It's worked for me a few times.

Wazdakka

Step 1) Go to www.***onparty.org
Step 2) your hiccups will be cured
Step 3) Profit...

Scuid Mhór

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

I'll try them as they appear.

update us on your troubles op

Brendog

BOO!:eek:

kfallon

Give yourself a fright...but don't follow thru, it's only going from one problem to another!

Scuid Mhór

Giant Squid wrote: »

update us on your troubles op

oh god the hiccups have killed him

rip op

Rubberlegs

Giant Squid wrote: »

oh god the hiccups have killed him

rip op

I told you to turn them into belches:(:P
RIP!!!

dilallio

Bite into a slice of lemon...

The drinking a glass upside down worked the first 10 or 11 times but when I got used to it, it no longer worked.

Donkey Oaty

Giant Squid wrote: »

oh god the hiccups have killed him

rip op

Apologies for the slow update, but I am delighted to report that I am still alive and hiccup-free thanks to holding my breath for as long as I could.

As this was the first thing that was suggested, I can't vouch for any other solutions unfortunately...many thanks everyone!

kjl

for future reference

http://www.cognitial.com/hiccups.shtml

I found this years ago and have never had a problem with them anymore

Hiccups are caused by the spasming of the diaphragm, this method stops that.