How can I stop myself from hiccuping?
I keep on hiccuping and it hurts my thoat a little and I don’t know what to do.It hurts.Do any of you guys know a cure for hiccuping to long? I heard that someone can scare you then you’d jump and it would be gone but I don’t know….
Thanks :)
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Swallow a teaspoon of sugar, they will be gone almost instantly.
Stimulate your phrenic nerve by rubbing your index finger across the roof of your mouth.
Here’s the story of how I know this works. My brother was a quadreplegic, and a doctor was going to use him as a ‘guinea pig’ for a new procedure to help him briethe without his ventlator by placing electrodes in his diaphram. The first test to see if he would be a good candidate was to stimulate his phrenic nerve and see if it was atrophied or not. ( The phrenic nerve begins in the roof of your mouth and goes to the diaphragm.) When they put current to the electrodes, he hiccupped! they knew he was a good candidate so they did the procedure, and he was able to breathe without the ventilator for 45 minutes at a time.
Some years later, I heard that if you rub the roof of your mouth, it would stop hiccups because you are stimulating the phrenic nerve. It made sense to me, so I tried it, and it worked very well.
Here’s how you do it.
Put your index finger on the roof of your mouth, just behind the ridged surface, where you find a smooth spot. Rub that area briskly for a few minutes. Hiccups go away…wha laaa!!
Hold your breath for as long as possible. Hiccups are diaphragmatic spasms, so holding your breath and “resting” your diaphragm will help.
Watch out!
THere’s a big spider behind you!
Get a Hic-cup! It really does work! :D
I just saw on TV last week to bite into a half a lemon. I have no idea or not if it works.
@jbfletcherfan Actually that works by stimulating the same nerve that @scamp wrote about. See the second link I posted earlier.
Well, I’ll be dipped. Cool.
@Jbor thanks! We were posting at the same time, so I didn’t see your links.
distract yourself.
hold your breath for as long as possible.
Spoonful of sugar almost always works for me.
Thank you everyone! :)
The hiccups are gone now but if they come back then I’ll just look here so thank you!:)
@teh_kvlt_liberal Holy CRAP! :O
Glad they are gone! So, since this will be the thread people will refer to when they get hiccups, what method(s) did you try? Which one worked?
@scamp Me too! :) Well Ijust drank a lot of water and my sister freaked me out or scared me at least once and then I realized they were gone! Sugar works too! :) Your idea was great also and I tried it and that worked too! :)
@irocktheworld I just like having an excuse to eat a spoonful of sugar. That it works is a bonus! :D
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