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Hiccups - a right annoyance, what can we do?...

03:34 / 20.03.08

A start?

Like so

I am continually plagued by the hiccup, OK mostky when drunk, but also other times. What can I/We do, to overcome this terrible menance to our life? Well other than the dangerous breathing technique, I look back to the good old fashioned shock.

As long as it's scary, or shocking, it might just work...
...to help me and others resume normal breathing functions

03:39 / 20.03.08

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04:01 / 20.03.08

You can hold your breath while pressing on an acupressure point in the hollow right behind your earlobes for a bit. It works for the majority of the people I show it to.

04:16 / 20.03.08

and now I have to get the hiccups just to test that out...

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06:49 / 20.03.08

Well, for that I usually just try drinking a lot.

All Acting Regiment

13:43 / 20.03.08

Just hold your breath. For a long time. Loooooong. Not too long, though.

Not in the Face

12:29 / 26.03.08

I have found that as soon as you get a hiccup if you move something in from directly in front of you, a glass preferably or even make the gesture of moving something from straight in front of you to the side.

I know it sounds quite implausible and am willing to admit that I was told it while heavily under the influence and therefore perhaps very susceptible to suggestion in a way that has convinced my body that this is fact. It certainly seeemed a great idea at the time.

It does have to be as soon as you get the first hiccup - preferably even the first hic- otherwise it doesn't work at all, but since I was told this a couple of years ago hiccups have been effectively banished.

Fungus of Consciousness

13:37 / 26.03.08

Blow into a brown paper bag, breath in and blow again. Once the bag is full pop it so that it makes a loud bang and really scares you. It worked for me every time. That is, the one time I had hiccups....

BANG!

Sheesh, that was loud!