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A musician who has been hiccupping for 15 months is hoping an operation will solve his problem.

Chris Sands, 24, from Lincoln, hiccups as often as every two seconds - and sometimes even when he is asleep.

He has tried a variety of cures, including hypnosis and yoga, but nothing has worked.

Doctors at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre will put a tube into his stomach to monitor acid levels and decide if keyhole surgery is possible.

American Charles Osborne, of Anthon, Iowa, holds the record for the longest ever bout of hiccups, which lasted for 68 years from 1922 until 1990.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7387224.stm

Have you ever had a problem with hiccups? I'm usually able to get rid of them quite quickly, but I know people who will hiccup for ages. Drives you crazy after a while.

If I can concentrate I can usually stop hiccuping after the first one. Sometimes I can't focus and just have to let them go away though.

I knew a girl whose best friend had them for 3 months. Girl became a celebrity, her parents were douchebags, caused her to try and run away from home. That was all after her hiccups went away.

eeeg that sounds painful.
I find drinking a glass of water upside down usually works for me, don't know why.
I think hiccups are something to do with eating food too quickly.
and they're really annoying.

I knew an elderly lady who had the hiccups for like 3 weeks once, they found out something was wrong with her heart. :( I never found out how it was related.

I usually get them when I wake up in the morning, I eat a spoonful of peanut butter and they go away.

*hic*...kill me...*hic*...kill me...*hic*...kill me...*hic*...kill me...:p

He should try holding his breath. Yoga. wtf?

I've been somewhat bothered by them as a kid, but around my teenage years I found that consistent swallowing alleviated the problem nearly instantly, so now I just grab the nearest water bottle and perma-sip from it until I'm sure the hiccup won't come again.

He should try holding his breath. Yoga. wtf?

Well, seeing how hiccuping is (partly) about sudden respiratory muscles' contractions, and yoga's supposed to do all kinds of muscle relaxation and whatnot, it makes a certain amount of sense.. that, and I guess after a year of hiccuping you're willing to try about anything anyone suggests that isn't (all too) self-harming.

Just hit him very hard in the stomach a few times, yes it was work, but the air that he pushes out his lungs each time he get hit should help.

PS I don't know if this works but it would be better the surgery

*hic*...kill me...*hic*...kill me...*hic*...kill me...*hic*...kill me...:p

Simpons quote I do believe

:p guilty as charged:p

He should blow a line of coke.

No. Really. Cocaine is a respriatory anesthetic which has been shown to treat hicups.


As for me, I usually get them when I drunkenly have a cigarette. Which is actually good, as it gets me to stop smoking.

eeeg that sounds painful.
I find drinking a glass of water upside down usually works for me, don't know why.
I think hiccups are something to do with eating food too quickly.
and they're really annoying.

I heard it was when your Respatory and Digestive system get out of whack. that's why drinking a glass of water (and not just a swallow) tends to work because it forces them back together.

I sometimes eat something, an apple, candy whatever.

I don't know, I always tend to get them only when I'm doing something active, like running across difficult terrain, and that stopping and breathing slowly and evenly fixes the problem.

I've noticed that laughing is a lot like rapid-fire hiccupping.

I mean I noticed that right now reading that Simpson's quote. :)