I’ve tried many things before, but in the past couple days I’ve found that eating a packet or two of mustard tends to get rid of hiccups.
What sort of tricks do you folks have?
Take a glass of water, bend over forward, drink from the opposite side of the glass while your head is upside down. Drink the whole thing. Cured!
This is it, although I just put the water in my mouth and bend over then swallow. Swallowing water while upside down = 100% cure.
I used to do this with a straw while head was upside down. Worked really well when I was younger but haven’t tried it recently.
I do the thing where you drink water while rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Success rate is pretty low tbh.
Just quickly drinking a full glass of water usually does the trick
This will sound like a joke, but is 100% true.
The most effective, clinically proven, method to cure hiccups is anal digital stimulation. Finger your butthole. You don’t have to go deep, unless you want to, just tease the opening though. You can have someone tongue punch your fart box as well because the method of stimulation doesn’t matter and I am sure the research ran out of funding before testing alternative methods of stimulation.
I think I’ll just squirt some mustard up my ass, but thank you for the advice 👍
You’re doing twice the work, but I ain’t here to kink shame.
LOL, you should know I was being sarcastic there!
But for real, add that one to your potential hiccup remedies, eat a small glob of mustard, if nothing else works anyways.
Does that cure the fingerer or the fingeree?
try finger but hole
Here’s a method that’s always worked for me and others.
Get a glass of water, cool is preferred but any reasonable temperature is ok.
Take small, tiny, repeated sips from the rim of the glass, like an infant on a nipple, drinking and swallowing the water.
Do this for ten-twenty seconds and you’ll be rid of them.
It’s all placebo. Whatever you truly believe will cure them cures them. Once you figure this out you can just sort of meditate them away.
I’ve got one that’s not placebo: Doing a whip it. One big ol’ hit of nitrous WILL CURE THEM.
Yeah, I’ll bet most sedatives probably work.
Pro tip, if you are around someone with hiccups and you want to help them out, wait for their next hiccup, then immediately after offer them $10 (or anything you can provide as incentive) if they can hiccup one more time. Something about wanting it makes it stop.
Unfortunately, this probably won’t work on you anymore once you’ve read this, so sorry about that. And it only works on the unknowing a few times before they become immune, but it’s a neat trick that they will appreciate it when it works!
Easy! Just disbelieve them!
Say the following out loud:
Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm
A spasm is defined as a random tensing of a muscle
If the hiccups are random, they will not appear in a pattern
Therefore these hiccups do not exist.
If you hiccup part way through, you have to start over. Once you get through the whole thing, your hiccups are cured.
Ok, now hear me out. This isn’t just a joke, I’ve had at least two people that I hadn’t seen in years call me up and say, I need you to tell me the hiccup cure, now!
My best theory as to why it works, is that you’re focusing on repeating the words fast enough, and/or it makes you breath irregularly and breaks the hiccups. Or maybe it’s just the magical power of the mind! Oooooooooh!
Oh. It never works when you’re drunk. I don’t know why, but drink hiccups seem to be resistant to the method.
You can also just memorize and recite this, comes in handy for more than just hiccups:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
There’s something about focus or attention. If I hiccup, as soon as I realize it’s happening it stops. If I’m drunk I might not notice for a bit and the hiccups will continue until I can bring my will to bear on them.
Dying. Works every time first time and they never come back.
In the order I try them, usually the first one works for me:
Hold my breath, cold shower, go for a run.
I hold my breath and “push” the air blocking my lungs from emptying with my mouth/throat.
I usually just breathe in as much as I can and hold my breath until I need another gasp of air. It usually goes away after two or three times.
Lying on your back and pressing your knees to your chest is another way to get them to stop that works for me.
The holding your breath thing works. You inhale as much as you can, which stretches your diaphragm out, and hold it as long as you can, even through the next few hiccups. Works like a charm.
Hiccups come from a part of our brain that’s much less evolved. It’s the same thing that fish use to push water through their gills.
And just like breathing, it’s involuntary.
You just have to wait it out until that part of your brain stem remembers it doesn’t need to do that anymore.
Breathing is a little weird in that regard. It’s a natural instinct that you don’t have to think about, but when you do think about it, you can control it more or less voluntarily.
Hiccups are often way more annoying and way more on the involuntary side of reflexes.
I’ve researched hiccups before, and experts say that it’s basically the reflex that’s meant to start newborn babies breathing. After that though, it’s basically an unnecessary vestigial reflex.
I’m no expert though, I just know hiccups are fucking annoying as hell!
I hold my breath for 2 breaths in a row. Works every. Single. Time.
Say this out loud:
“I am not a fish.”
Repeat as necessary.
This really made my day. I’m a big fan of the ontogeny-filogeny thingy despite it often ends up disproved (e.g. recapitulation).
The other interesting theory, and the one I knew, was as a mechanism to empty air from the stomach, aiding milk consumption in mammals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504071/
I preferred yours.
I just say it in my head to myself. It has had a near 100% success rate for the past year. I don’t understand it, yet it works!
Chug down a big glass of water on a single breath.
Try to burp. Especially right after a hiccup.
I would add that you can swallow air to create the need to burp.
A spoonful of peanut butter usually does the trick for me or my kids.
All the mythological cures rely on one specific thing: focusing on a task or overriding your brain’s autonomic systems with adrenaline (get scared). Don’t think about it and do something else with as much concentration as you can will. Sorry if you’re ADHD.
Yeah, I’m probably ADHD, and not easily scared. Hell, I handle snakes and spiders and shit sometimes. Good luck scaring me…
You’ll never own a home or save enough for retirement. The entire planet is under incredible stress and we’re literally making it uninhabitable for ourselves. Your tax dollars often go towards killing innocent people in other countries. You may have left the oven on.
If that didn’t do it, I’m out of ideas.
Trying that fear factor approach I see. Well thank you for the thought, but I’m not easily scared, and that trick doesn’t seem to work for me anyways.
Go for a run or cold shower. Get your heart rate up, similar effect.
