[FlamingO]

Hi All,

I just wondered if anyone had some tried and tested ways of getting rid of hiccups

Look forward to hearing any suggestions - when I get them I get them bad and right now I sound like a toad plus what with trying to quit the smokes too I feel a bit like this tis evening

[Guest]

Yikes !

Glass of water ?

Hold your breath maybe ?

Get someone to scare ya

Hope they go soon Sue

[Smurfysmurf]

Sue, I have them, too and they can last very long..

I have tried all three options that Graham gave with the usual results

- getting scared...well, that was the first thing people tried to do when I had them so it was a bit difficult to be scared when you except it

- holding my breath ....nearly got me killed but didn't get rid of the hiccups

- drinking water ... great idea..until it backfired when I had the hiccup while the water was in my mouth

However, finally Granny told me one day
"When you have the hiccups don't mind it too much as it means somebody who likes you is thinking of you at that moment."

And can I tell you something? since then my hiccups tend to go away pretty fast, and I don't mind them much anymore...just the idea that somebody special has me on his mind...well....gives me warm thoughts that tend to get rid of my hiccups

[Pitufo]

It is always nice to learn a new word in english: hiccups!!!!!It sounds well...Here we call "hipo", and the ways of getting rid hyccups are international

[FlamingO]

Thanks guys!

"When you have the hiccups don't mind it too much as it means somebody who likes you is thinking of you at that moment."

I might try that next time Although I think last night my man was thinking of me at that moment - thinking he wished I'd shut up darn hiccuping

As it happened I shortly afterwards ate some apple pie and cream and by the time I had finished they had gone I wonder if I'd get the same result with chocolate gateau, I might just start liking hiccups

[Guest]

Chocolate gateau .........

[Rachel]

Hi guys, I am not sure how to cure yourself if you are by yourself but if someone else has them it is REALLY easy:

Just ask them to hiccup again, in fact beg them. The more you want to hiccup the more you can't. I have done it loads of times, in school with kids where I have been that confident, I have offered them money to hiccup again, in a pub where I offered to buy a pint and whenever Richard start's I just ask t=him to do it again.

Honestly, it really does work.

[eggie smurf]

That's funny, Rach...I never heard that one before. I've also heard to eat a spoonful of sugar but never tried that.

[Rachel]

I've also heard to eat a spoonful of sugar but never tried that.

Oh I do that too sometimes. Not when I have hiccups though, just cause I have a sweet tooth!

[Syd Smurf]

When Staci says "boo" to me it automatically stops my hiccups

I am not sure why this is so....she doesn't even say it loud or scary like......but it instantly works and I stop hiccupping. I guess I am just trained to do so now.

This one time....at Pizza Hut.....I even had to boo myself because there was no one else with me

Dyar

[eggie smurf]

This one time....at Pizza Hut.....I even had to boo myself because there was no one else with me

I didn't know there was a Pizza Hut at Band Camp

[Syd Smurf]

Well I was actually at Hand Camp so there definately was a Pizza slut there

Dyar

[smurfieduck]

I see Dyar's on the ball as usual....