Are you tired of pesky hiccups ruining your day? Try this fool-proof method that has worked for many: Take a medium-sized breath, hold it for a second, then take a second breath without exhaling the first one. Hold for a couple seconds, then exhale. This simple trick has successfully stopped hiccups for many, so give it a try and share your results! #stop hiccups #hiccup remedy #fool-proof method #say goodbye to hiccups
or just drink some water, sometimes 9 gulps did the trick for me
I’ve always just had a spoonful of peanut butter. I: never failed me.
I read this a few months ago and this is the weirdest, wackiest thing ever, but this phrase always, and I mean always, works for me: “I am not a fish.”
seriously.
There is no universal cure for hiccups. I once had hiccups for 5 days straight after surgery and I tried everything. Medication was the only thing that stopped them that time.
Just do a more aggressive hiccup to take in more air and they’ll disappear after 1 hiccup with no effort, and it works every time. This also becomes completely automatic after you do it a few times, so you’ll **never** have hiccup attacks ever again. This cannot get easier.
There are like a thousand foolproof methods that work every time but it’s still an annoying problem. Afaik nobody know what hiccups are even there for and what *really* helps.
In high school, we used to inflict pain worse than the hiccup reflex. Generally with a shot to the balls.
Hiccups were over with a good shot
I always used to do the “hold your breath for 10 seconds” trick, but i would start over if i couldn’t make it to 10. Seemed to work. Now i have GERD, and it seems i haven’t had hiccups in like 4 years. I do occansionally get these hybrid burp/hiccup things.
I’ve always taken 7 sips of water and it went away
I do something similar, except I breathe in more than twice. I take as full a breath as I can, and then I force myself to “sip” in more and more air until I’m absolutely bursting. Then I hold it as long as I can and I release it as slowly as possible. Works the first time almost every time. It basically kind of resets the diaphragm and forces it to stop spasming.
Codeine works wonders. Never fails.
Maybe Flintstones Chewable Morphine as well.
This works for me everytime: completely empty lungs, completely fill lungs, hold breath until I feel my heartbeat, exhale in time with heart.
Drink water upside down
Try a spoonful of plain lemon juice! It goes away in a second.
my stepmom taught me to take a few sips of water, then a big gulp.
it’s the most useful thing she’s taught me besides domestic abuse.
I just push my tongue to the roof of my mouth and inhale a full breath. It stops.
Simply holding my breath has always worked without fail my entire life. Every hiccup remedy is actually aiming to do one thing; reset the muscle spasms of the diaphragm. And usually, they all include little activities that either shock your nervous system, or keep you from breathing for a bit
So just hold your breath and be simple
I do a weird meditation thing where I visualise my diaphragm as I breathe. I don’t know why it works, but it does.
Ice cube up the bum. Works like a charm.
I’ve always thought I need to run out the air in my lungs. After taking a breath I’d start jumping up and down. Also tried breathing out first then start jumping up and down
I’ve always just taken a super deep breath, expanding my lungs as much as possible, then held my breath for a while. Works literally every time. Which I guess is pretty close to the method you’ve described. But I figured out a long time ago that if I take away my bodies ability to twitch that muscle, then it will stop twitching, and it works.Â
My trick is: inhale as much as you can as fast as you can through your nose, hold your breath for half a second then slowly breath out while keeping air pressure in your mouth / throat, kind of as if blowing through a straw. Works every time.
What 100% works for me is hard to teach as you need to know how it feels. It is to feel where the source of the hickup is located and put pressure on it with surrounding muscles in your abdomen. And at the same time try to pull up air with a closed throat.
It goes straight to the core of the hickup and works immediately.
Sometimes a few sips of water are neccessary to help move the air in the stomach.
Edit: spelling
i take mini sips of water until I am almost out of breath to simulating drowning
Since hiccups is caused “because you don’t breath enough.” I use the max amplitude when brething in, then let it out slowly. And repeat for a minute. Should try this two steps breath in.
My Dad taught me an even easier technique when I was a kid, I thought he was a magician. This technique does require a little mind over matter, but basically you click your finger behind your ear and at the same time say ‘GONE’!. 60% of the time it works every time! lol
For minor hiccups it could work but there is no universal remedy especially if those hiccups becoming major ones (I had to look up, the longest hiccups recorded was 68 years).
I got long (for days) hiccups all my life, not subtle hiccups but loud braying like a donkey so I’m always curious about new ideas.
In school I was told I disturbed class so I spent many hours outside of class rooms holding my breath, drinking plenty of water, lemon juice or vinegar, holding sugar under my tongue, holding my arms up above my head, doing handstands or sitting with my head between my knees (while drinking or eating), many times people tried to tickle me or jump scare me out of it. Really nothing helped for decades (we didn’t have peanut butter here when I was young so no experience with that and never met a doctor with useful ideas about this).
About 10 years ago I read something about how we should try holding the ears closed while drinking. That still wasn’t enough for me (worked 3 out of 10 times) but based on this method now we have a kind of funny, two person remedy that works for me every time: my hubby plugging my ears tightly while I holding my nose tightly with one hand, having a big breath holding in then drinking a cup of water. (Tricky but I can do it on my own if I drink out of a bottle.)
Everyone out there having hiccups regularly I hope you’ll find your cure too 🙂
What my dad has always done and taught me to do when I was young and has always worked for us is breath in then hold your nose and swallow 5 times without breathing in or out. It’s kinda hard to do the 5th but I’ve never had a hiccup continue after doing it successfully. Â
Ive had countless friends and coworkers with hiccups refuse to do it right, they’ll swallow 2-3 times or be visibly breathing in between swallows and then complain oh well that doesn’t work for me and decline to try and completely do it the right way.
I like this method because, more than that it’s never failed me, it requires nothing else like having a drink or sugar or lemon or whatever, and it feels like a bit of a game challenge. Go ahead and give it a try right now, swallow 5 times whole holding your nose and don’t breath during. I think it’s a more fun challenge to help distract my attention than just holding my breath, and it performs the same action as taking gulps of what ever
I like to share my way because nobody ever does it or believes it. If you put some water in your mouth and duck your head between your legs and swallow multiple times they’ll go away immediately.
Doesn’t work for me.Â
What does work is drinking from the wrong side of the glas.
i always drink a sip of water upside down, that’s the only. things that’s worked for me as a regular hiccup sufferer lol but i’ll try this!
i just press my sternum as hard as i can without hurting myself for about 15 seconds and it stops
whenever i have hiccups they last at least an hour, i’ve tried everything, only this works and i just figured it out a few weeks ago
Shot of vinegar.
Best thing I’ve found that works is to have a spoonful of vinegar.
Can it be gross? Yes. (Unless you love vinegar)
Does it work instantly? Also yes.
It’s been my go-to since I heard about it years ago
Spoon full of honey! Tried and tested, thank me later.
Jump off a high building
This has mostly worked for me though the exact steps were a little different.
Take a normal breath. Hold it for 5 seconds. Without exhaling, breath in again and fill your lungs completely. Hold for another 5. Attempt to breathe in one more time, hold for as long as feels comfortable. Release.
Works about 80% of the time
My foolproof method is to make myself yawn. A real yawn. No more hiccups.
Hiccups are cramps in your midriff diaphragm. Any controlled movement of it will eventually stop hiccups. What op describes is just a trick to force yourself to breath with it.