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Why doesn't anybody believe me...

#63
Joe Nerve said:
....when I tell them I know a sure fire cure for hiccups??? A teaspoon of sugar swallowed, without letting it dissolve, wipes them out. Every time. It has something to do with the crystals getting into the air pockets (or something like that) that cause the hiccups.
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I’m a fool for taking this seriously. Hiccups are caused by a short circuit with the phrenic nerve to the diaphragm. There’s no air pockets involved. Want to stop hiccups? Push hard up under your sternum until it really hurts. Suppresses the phrenic nerve mis-firing.
 
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Hey... I don't know any of the science behind hiccups. I didn't claim to :).

Allz I know is that every single time I had the hiccups, for the past 30 years (maybe 20 times), I took a spoonful of sugar - and they went away. It's worked 100% for me.

Ya'll can hiccup all you want!!!!!!!

If anyone doesn't believe this works, try it. It it works, yay!

If it doesn't then don't do it any more when you get the hiccups.

Find your own cure, dammit.

I'm happy here with mine.

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My nephew had hiccups for about 3 and a half years. Tried every trick in the book as well as in the medical literature. Nothing, including drugs, helped.

Became something of a celebrity. Appeared on Leno (Leno and The Rock holding his feet while he drank a glass of water upside down). Was on Good Morning America a couple of times as well as Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

Over time the hiccups just kind of faded away.

He's relatively normal now.
 
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Joe Nerve said:
....when I tell them I know a sure fire cure for hiccups???

A teaspoon of sugar swallowed, without letting it dissolve, wipes them out. Every time. It has something to do with the crystals getting into the air pockets (or something like that) that cause the hiccups.

Whenever I tell someone however, despite how serious and convincing I try to be, they smile, laugh, roll their eyes, or just ignore me. Even if their hiccups are killing them!

I'm getting fed up with it!!!!

Oh the humanity.....





Somebody please tell me why? I cant lose another night's sleep.
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Experimental data. Next time I have a does of hiccups, I'll try it. Then I can be the random person in the infomercial who says it really works while looking at a random spot on the wall that's off camera.
 
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If it makes you feel better, Joe, I believe you.

In a 'trust, but verify' way. Meaning I'll give it a try next time I have the hiccups.

My go-to remedy is to drink a glass of water while holding my breath (hold breath, drink, continue holding breath as long as I can. Usually works.


My daughter had the hiccups frequently - before she was born.
 
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Joe Nerve said:
....when I tell them I know a sure fire cure for hiccups???

A teaspoon of sugar swallowed, without letting it dissolve, wipes them out. Every time. It has something to do with the crystals getting into the air pockets (or something like that) that cause the hiccups.
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The parts I underlined are the problem. A spoonful (or packet, or cube) of sugar does seem to work. "Swallowing it dry" is not needed, nor very nice. Inventing "reasons" that it works, in the absence of actually knowing those reasons, sets BS detectors clanging. I'm fairly sure that eating sugary fruit also serves the same end.

Also, every person who has some other hiccup cure (i.e. nearly everyone) is immune to any new (to them) hiccup cure unless they find the one they use not working and happen to remember one that they mostly didn't hear because they have one already and don't have any mental space to hear a new one.

EtA: A far better narrative awaits the onset and continuance of hiccups, and suggests that "a bit of sugar seems to work for me, I have no idea why, it might just be placebo effect." Placebo effect is non-trivial - put two groups of subjects on a drug and a placebo (without the groups nor the people giving it to them knowing which is which - aka "double-blind"), and some of the folks on the placebo will get better. Less common is having side effects, so it's usually a win.

I never got much effect from the difficult drinking method. I happened to have a bad case while visiting a friend who got me to try the sugar, and it worked for me. Why, I haven't the foggiest idea, and so long as it works, I don't really need to know why.
 
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T_Bone_TL said:
The parts I underlined are the problem. A spoonful (or packet, or cube) of sugar does seem to work. "Swallowing it dry" is not needed, nor very nice. Inventing "reasons" that it works, in the absence of actually knowing those reasons, sets BS detectors clanging. I'm fairly sure that eating sugary fruit also serves the same end.

Also, every person who has some other hiccup cure (i.e. nearly everyone) is immune to any new (to them) hiccup cure unless they find the one they use not working and happen to remember one that they mostly didn't hear because they have one already and don't have any mental space to hear a new one.

EtA: A far better narrative awaits the onset and continuance of hiccups, and suggests that "a bit of sugar seems to work for me, I have no idea why, it might just be placebo effect." Placebo effect is non-trivial - put two groups of subjects on a drug and a placebo (without the groups nor the people giving it to them knowing which is which - aka "double-blind"), and some of the folks on the placebo will get better. Less common is having side effects, so it's usually a win.

I never got much effect from the difficult drinking method. I happened to have a bad case while visiting a friend who got me to try the sugar, and it worked for me. Why, I haven't the foggiest idea, and so long as it works, I don't really need to know why.
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I think you're right. People are often very close minded.
 

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