Fuck. I never get hiccups. WTF??

[JBoy]

How do I stop this shit?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sit down, hold your breath till you can't any more.....Let it out...

Take a breath. Hold it again as above. Repeat till the hiccups are gone.

It has never failed me.

[JBoy]

2. Thanks, tried it. No dice!

Does this still work if you've had a "bit" to drink?

I'm thinking that's the root cause...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I hardly ever drink, so I have no idea...

You have to keep at it, plus start as soon as you get the hiccups. It's harder to do if you've had the hiccups for a while.

Sorry!

[Lasher]

4. Get somebody to scare the shit out of you.

Sometimes that works.

[polly7]

5. Bend over and drink from the wrong side of a glass of water.

It works!

[OriginalGeek]

10. Holy Moley!

I came in to post this exact same thing. I don't remember where I heard it first but it has never failed me...You're the first person I've ever seen mention it since I first heard of it. When I tell people they think I'm tricking them for my own amusement.


But if I was gonna do that I'd just tell them what my grandma always told me: "Hiccups? Sing! It won't help your hiccups but it will be funny for the rest of us!"

[polly7]

12. Lol .. I love your Grandma's idea.

I heard the water trick first at a party a long time ago. It works a lot better when you're not completely loaded and bending forward can mean a face-plant ... I recommend spotters. Trust me, people. But yep, it always works for me, too.

[gkhouston]

6. Swallow a heaping teaspoon of white sugar, dry.

Just put some on the spoon and try to swallow as much as you can before it dissolves in your mouth.

[noamnety]

7. hiccups are a throat spasm

swallowing works like a mini massage to stop it. Not a big swallow, but lots of little ones. That's the theory behind the spoonful of sugar remedy, or bending over to drink from the wrong side of the glass, which forces you to take tiny swallows.
But it's easier and more effective to just understand that it's about swallowing a lot.

Get a glass of water and do tiny little sips, swallow swallow swallow swallow as many times as you can.

I get hiccups when I eat hot peppers, this always cures it - pretty darn fast, too.

[JBoy]

8. Woo! I think they stopped.

Went outside into cold air for a couple of minutes.

When I came back inside, I realized they were gone.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Deep breath (through the nose), hold it for a count of 30, exhale, they should go away!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

11. This works for me.

1. get a pencil
2. get a glass of water
3. place pencil between teeth
4. hold breath
5. take 3 sips of water while holding your breath and holding the pencil.

[HopeHoops]

13. I can tell you what works for me (and with my wife and kids if I do it).

The best way is to lie on your back on the floor with your legs up on a bed or couch, but just being on your back helps. Apply pressure right in the bread box (hard pressure) - that interrupts the diaphragm spasms. THEN breath in as deeply as you can, suck in a little more, and then suck in a little more (it helps if you've played a wind instrument). Hold your breath and count until you know you're well passed the expected interval and then SLOWLY (as slow as you can) exhale. Don't move for a couple of minutes or you'll have to do it all over again.

[We are Devo]

14. I get them all the time

I just drink a full glass of water, fast, and they stop.

[lindysalsagal]

15. swallow water up-hill. works every time.

1. Fill mouth.
2. Hold breath.
3. lower head
4. swallow.

Cannot fail.

[RebelOne]

16. I take a gulp of vinegar. Works for me every time. n/t

[Odin2005]

17. I've learned to stop hiccups.

I hold my breath and swallow several times, that almost always stops them.

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. Don't believe any of this. None of it works. Just wait a 5-10 mins and they'll go away nt