So - Hiccups - can you control them?

[haaammit]

As per title really - I have learned how to stop hiccups, but it involves some pain/user participation.

In the past, when have had hiccups, I have spanked myself on the head with a large, heavy metal bar. This really hurts, but it stops my body from hiccuping.

If I now start hiccuping, I can usually stop it by imagining a big, heavy bar belting my head. Sometimes it doesn't work, but a few blows soon sort out my stupid body's reluctance to bow to my brain's superior 'think power'. Other times I have to belt myself, but only once or twice tbh.

Why do we hiccup and can we control them?

That's it really - over to you

 

[tres]

Hold my breath, and swallow three times. Usually works for me

 

[Selekt0r]

Just need to 'think' my diaphragm relaxed, and it does - stops the hiccups immediately . Annoys my family when I do it and they can't, however unfortunately it is one of my few skills

 

[bainbridge]

I let them take their course and go away.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Drink a glass of orange juice down in one.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Close your nose off, close your ears off and get somebody to hold a cup of water in front of your mouth and keep drinking from it.
I've never known it not to work.

 

[Salsa]

Usually just hold my breath for 30 secs or so and hiccups stop.

/Salsa

 

[Maccapacca]

Only get them when drunk and the only cure for me is sticking my fingers down my throat and reaching / puking, if not they never go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpr2KAj23AE

 

[G18241]

a spoonfull of hendersons relish gets rid of them instantly

 

[Guest2]

drink a glass of water backwards

(head forward, pour it forward and drink it from the top) poor description but it works

 

[yhack]

Do a large number of random tasks simultaneously and it will apparently get rid of them.

 

[Raumarik]

Usually just hold my breath for 30 secs or so and hiccups stop.

/Salsa

+1

edit - I don't mean 31 seconds.

 

[Mickie]

i sip water till it goes away, works everytime

 

[AshD93]

Hold my breath and they go.

I remember Mr Bean trying *I think* and thought I'd try it too. Shockingly, it worked!

 

[Fuzz]

Your diaphragm has an itch... so scratch it by breathing in until it feels like your lungs are about to explode, then breathe out until it feels like they are about to collapse..

Job done.

 

[NuggetUK]

Grow out of them? I haven't had them since I was about 10.

 

[TheBigCheese]

Some interesting ideas.

What works for me is holding my breath, swallowing five times (while holding breath) and then forcing a burp, if you can burp it's virtually guaranteed to make it stop.

 

[Lethagized]

Walk into a wall. It works.

 

[MisChief]

Putting pressure on your septum (the bit between your nostrils) will get rid of hiccups..... apparently.

 

[Biohazard]

It's a ploy to get bogies on your fingers.