I started hiccuping on Sunday night after eating, and have been hiccuping on & off since then. I’m just coming off the back of a cold/cough so think that’s got something to do with it but I’ve just about had enough – so STW, what are your best hiccup cures?

Fill your lungs then force the breath out but don’t actually breathe out.

The hiccups are generally caused by a spasm in your diaphragm and the above method forces the kink out.
Doesn’t always work tho…..

Get someone to stick their finger up your arris. (Yes it is a recognised
remedy).

Digital rectal massage linky

Or just have a Barclays

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpr2KAj23AE[/video]

Here’s a Japanese cure I was shown that has always worked.

Sit facing someone and hold your hands out to them, palms up and hands crossed with the fingers splayed.
Get the other person to lightly pinch both bits of skin between your thumb and forefinger, one with each hand obviously! Then they need to significantly increase the pressure on one hand, and whilst talking to you to distract you, change the high pressure to the other hand.

Hope I’ve explained that clearly enough.

For some reason, it doesn’t work on people who are drunk, but the distraction is important. Hope it helps.

Dave

Fill your lungs then force the breath out but don’t actually breathe out.

+1 The soon to be missus taught me that one, the only time it refused to work was with alcohol hiccups…

I had really bad hiccups once and the only way I could get rid was to hold my breath & sprint as hard as I could until I got all hyper-ventilator-y.

I was quite desperate by this point.

There was a man in India had them for years. He ended up killing himself.

HTH, good luck with that…

Get someone to stick their finger up your arris. (Yes it is a recognised
remedy).

It’ll take your mind off the hicups at least 😀

geoffj – Member
Get someone to stick their finger up your arris. (Yes it is a recognised
remedy).

Digital rectal massage linky

Or just have a Barclays

Quite an amusing article, but it does beg the question of how you found it?

get someone to jab you under the rib cage on both sides at the same time.

Kev

Only cure that has ever worked for me is drinking brown sauce! HP, Daddies, Chop, doesn’t matter, you just got to neck the acidic sh1t and that normally does the trick!

Last time I had long term-ish hiccups, I asked a friend to point a cocked and loaded shotgun at my gusset.

I passed a small stool and the hiccups stopped.

HTH

D_S

Rather disappointingly they seem to be on the wane so I won’t be able to go through the full repertoire of your suggestions – though eating seemed to bring them on again so this may work out to be even better than iDave’s diet.

Get a glass of water.

Take 5 quick sips without breathing in between sips.

If that doesn’t work, take 10 quick sips without breathing in between sips.

If that doesn’t work, take 15 quick sips without breathing in between sips.

If that doesn’t work, good luck.