Girl Hiccups for Five Weeks

[Strygun]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/01/hic...ef=rss_offbeat

major bummer.

[I Hate Pants]

LOL! Ain't this something. Just yesterday I was hiccuping for a half hour and I went through 4 glasses of water to get them to stop. Near the end of the half hour I was soo pissed they wouldn't stop.

5 weeks of this would drive me up the wall.

[Electrofreak]

I've always been able to stop my hiccups just with conscious thought. I don't understand how other people can't seem to do what I do.

When I get hiccups, I just carefully breathe in and out consciously for a few minutes, monitoring my diaphragm and basically envisioning it mentally making smooth, steady movements. This immediately stops the hiccups, and after a few minutes of this I can let my lungs do their own thing and the hiccups don't return.

However if I don't do it for at least 2 minutes or so the hiccups can return.

Now if only I could make that work with muscle twitches and stuff. I had a twitch in my shoulder muscle the other day and no amount of concentration could make it go away... was driving me nuts.

[LimpBIT]

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

Now if only I could make that work with muscle twitches and stuff. I had a twitch in my shoulder muscle the other day and no amount of concentration could make it go away... was driving me nuts.

I know how you feel, I get an insane amount of random muscle twitches. Mostly in my eyelids....

[Strygun]

you need to eat more potassium (bananas) to prevent the muscle twitches.

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by Strygun

you need to eat more potassium (bananas) to prevent the muscle twitches.

Bananas trigger chronic acid reflux heartburn for me. However I've started taking Prilosec OTC this week... maybe I'll be able to try one again. Haven't had a banana (or many other fruits such as watermelon and pineapple) in about a decade.

[Derfud]

A friend of mine has been hiccuping occasionally for the last few years, it's usually only a few a day, just one at a time.

[Hamma]

Don't get the hiccups often here - would suck ass to have them for weeks. Heck even one week would suck.

[Peacemaker]

My prefered method is to punch my self in the Diaphram, its never failed.

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by Peacemaker

My prefered method is to punch my self in the Diaphram, its never failed.

I guess thats one way of doing it.

[Lartnev]

You could always try rectal massage (For the record it was linked to from wikipedia )

Also, 5 weeks is nothing. Some bloke from Iowa hiccuped for 68 years starting at a rate of 40 times a minute!

[LimpBIT]

Originally Posted by Lartnev

You could always try rectal massage (For the record it was linked to from wikipedia )

Also, 5 weeks is nothing. Some bloke from Iowa hiccuped for 68 years starting at a rate of 40 times a minute!

and than he died a year later....pwned

[Kikinchikin]

I don't think I've hiccupped in the past like year. Weird.

[Hamma]

rectal massage

[Squeeky]

When my brother was going through chemotherapy, he would hiccup about 3-4 times a minute for hours on end. I guess it's normal, but that shit was funny.


"Hey Brian, hiccup if you like cock"

"....*hic*....FUCK YOU"

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