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L0vEmuSiC: 3 months ago via Android

Quick remedies for the hiccups?

Have tried water and holding my breath. Any other suggestions?

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Cjkenkel: 3 months ago

My mom just recently had spinal neck surgery. And while she was in the hospital, if she got hiccups, a nurse would run down to her room with a spoonful of peanut butter. She would then put the peanut butter on the roof of her mouth and hold it there as long as she could before swallowing it. Oddly enough, this worked EVERY time she had hiccups.

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L0vEmuSiC: 3 months ago via Android

Trying it & I hope you're Mom is feeling better ):

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Cjkenkel: 3 months ago

I hope it helps you, please let me know! I won't suggest this again if it doesn't.

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L0vEmuSiC: 3 months ago via Android

Odd. Seems to be working.

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Cjkenkel: 3 months ago

When they did it for the first time for my mom, I looked at the nurse like she was crazy. But it worked for her several times.

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L0vEmuSiC: 3 months ago via Android

Yeah, lol. I read your answer and it seemed a little weird, but as annoying as these are, it was worth a try.

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wittepier: 3 months ago

I'll have to give that one a try Cj, let you know.. , nice alternative when the upside/down liquid fails and just take in any liquid anymore! Lol

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MerlinNMe2: 3 months ago | Last edited at 1:15AM on 2/25/2013

Hi. While I was reading your question, I, ironically, got the hiccups.. SO WIERD! Talk about "power of suggestion!" Cj's suggestion sounds like a good one. I have yet another. Pour a glass of lukewarm h2o into a relatively large mouthed cup... like a coffee mug. Bend down at your waist, as if you were going to pick something up off the the floor. Hold the coffee cup, while bending over, and drink 7 swallows of the water from the opposite side of the cup. This is why you need the cup with a good sized mouth (hole) at the top! They don't have to be Huge Gulps. It does have to be 7 at least. Then, slowly stand up and take a deep breath. This relaxes your diaphram... which is why you have the hiccups in the 1st place. I hope this works. In the meantime, I'm going to try Cj's idea! I know mine works, I'd like to try hers too! Good Luck and if you are really creative, you can combine both Cj's and mine. Peanut Butter always makes anything thirsty! Take Care, signed the " hiccuping- soon - free- to- be Merlin! "

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Cjkenkel: 3 months ago

Let me know if it works! : )

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L0vEmuSiC: 3 months ago via Android

Although they are gone, your response has cheered me quite a bit.
Thanks, will have to try that one next time.

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L0vEmuSiC: 3 months ago via Android

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wittepier: 3 months ago

Funneeeeeey! Magic M2! Same method learned back in party days at LSU! Lol! Does work, even better if use soda or seltzer!:-).

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MerlinNMe2: 3 months ago

Hi. I'm so glad L0vE, your hiccups are gone. Mine too! Yippeee! In honor of cheering you up, you've gotta read this. All 3 of you will get a kick out of it: Sent to me from my husband.
These are allegedly extracts of 5th and 6th graders' answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes. They were collected over a 3 yr. period by 2 teachers.
Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached Canada but the commandos made it.
Solomon had 3 hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was a actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It sounds like he was busy too.
In the 1st Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuts, and threw the java. The games were messier than the show on TV now.
And finally, by favorite, : Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with 100 foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men.!!!! Now, if this doesn't make you hiccup in laughter, I don't know what will. Have a happy giggle! I did.!!! :)

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MerlinNMe2: 3 months ago

PS: These weren't typos, they were exactly as written! Hahaha Take Care all of you and let's know laughter is a great cure to leave even the hiccups behind!!!

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wittepier: 3 months ago

Thanks you and hubby for the good laughs!!!big smiles+++++++++!!
Canada whoooeeeee!!
Happeeeeey, happeeeeeeeey!!!

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ravenevan: 3 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 1:53AM on 2/25/2013

A large spoon on sugar held in your mouth to dissolve and gradually swallow will put a quick end to the hiccups.

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MerlinNMe2: 3 months ago

Hi. You may be too Young, or too Old for this but....... It has been known by many a great writer and many a great producer, director, and actor that: "A Teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine go down, just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, in the most delightful way!"
A quote from a song. I think it was Mary Poppins. Played by Julie Andrews. The other star was Dick Van Dyke. Anyway, what I am getting at is, your suggestion is great and I do believe it works as well. Thanks for sharing and have a gret day!
Before I go, looking at your picture, are you scratching your back with a slip n slide? You seem a relatively smart "gent." What are you doing in your picture? :0 :) :)

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MerlinNMe2: 3 months ago

And after re-reading, the song quote is "spoonful" sorry, I was looking at your picture while typing. You do know I agree and like your suggestion... still, what are you doing in you picture?? :) :)

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