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I've got a bad case of them as I type!!
But I hold my nose, breath and tense my stomach.
My brother suggests hang upside down.
What do you do?

I use two methods :

1 - the one you described......if that doesn't work, the opposite

deep breathing in a hyper ventilating manner.

Oh, and a third....find someone who you wont bug by talking to them continually - keep talking until they go away.....

good luck

Take a deep breath and hold it as long as possible, repeat until you try to hiccup while holding your breath, usually works first time for me

good luck
Math

Get your brother to write a word with his finger on your forehead (fairly slowly) and you have to work out what it is.

I take a deep breath and hold it until they've gone. It works 99% of the time

The INFALLIBLE cure for hiccups is one teaspoonfull of vinegar!

Any vinegar works malt, spirit, wine, cider, tarragon even.

Trust me THIS WORKS EVERY TIME!

Seamus

Hi Rickmanix,

Personally I try not to think about them. Sounds a little wierd, trying not to think, but when I forget that I have hiccups they aren't there anymore. I know I might have got this all mixed up and I forget that I have hiccups *because* they've gone away , but when I concentrate on getting rid of them too much they seem to get worse.

On another note, Rickmanix, do you think you could go to your personal space ("My Space") and click "Edit Page" to write a introduction to yourself. It can be as long or short as you like. If you do this people can drop by and leave messages there for you.

Cheers

Ste

The cause of hiccups is a temporarily b****red diaphram (SP? I *hate* that word)...all you need to do is control your breathing...so deep, slow breathing in and out will do it. That's why distracting yourself works - puts your breathing back on auto-pilot!!

I aways drink something out of the wrong side of a glass (involves bedning over)

If it doesn't cure you the fzzy drink going up your nose will distract you till theyre gone.

I just gulp down a lot of water, and I find my diaphragm relaxes and the hiccups have disappeared...

On the other hand, holding one's breath until you pass out or cease to be would be an extreme cure... But at least your hiccups will have been cured!

Caper Plip

Yup - controlled breathing (not holding your breath) is the way to go. Imagine someone has just said something incredibly stupid and you have corrected them but they still dont get it...you usualy breath in slowly and let your breath out slowly...in otherwords a very big and very slow *sigh* (except it works better if you breath in through your nose and out through your mouth)

This also works if you are scared silly when taking off in an aeroplane like me!

my spolling is atroshus tonite - sorrry! breath and breathe - that damn *e* keeps hiding!

my spolling is atroshus tonite - sorrry! breath and breathe - that damn *e* keeps hiding!

aaargh - I'll get me coat

OK, so anyone know why drinking lots of beer gives you the hiccups?

I got the m at new year and cured a friend by trying to ignore them which caused her to laugh and dissolve into a fit of giggles!

Here are some more cures:
- have someone appal (sp?) / scare you
- eat a spoonful of sugar
- Answer the following question: What do you get from the following: a half plus a half times a half?
[the trick is that *concentrating* on something helps to get rid of the hickup]






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attention, spoiler...






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the answer to that question is:





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three quarters, less a hickup

i got another half (have i forgotten maths rules ?)




drink a glass of water upside down (bending over) (someones already mentioned this). usually works the first time, but if not have a second glass.

A punch in the face.

(ducks)

i assume that wasn't intended for me.

that's my cure.