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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sugar alone, then if it works, lots of water to get rid of the sweetness.I fill the spoon with sugar, then drizzle water on it. Also gross, but less so. Usually, though, drinking something too soon after un-does the cure, so I have to deal with the cloying taste, for a while.
Hiccup cure: Pour a large glass of water. Find a clean washcloth and put it over the top of the glass. Drink all the water through the washcloth without stopping.
I do a variation of this. Get glass of water and a straw. Hold your breath and drink the entire glass of water through the straw while holding your breath. It works every time.
I have to wait a few minutes to make sure it works before the water. I will have to remember the drizzle water thing for next time.
Since we are on the subject of hiccups, do other people have hiccup triggers? I know of one for myself-- eating bread or certain kinds of crackers if I haven't eaten or drunk anything else for several hours.
The accupressure thing works best for me for hiccups. I press a thumb's width below the wrist crease, but it sounds like the same basic pressure point.Yes, the key is to have your fingertips pressing on what I call the cords of your wrist (if I had ever taken biology I would probably know what I should really call them, but I didn't, so I don't).
The drinking out of the opposite side of the glass trick has always worked for me before, but this batch were resistant, it would seem. They're still being held at bay by the breath holding. Maybe they've retired for good...
And I just jinxed it by typing that, didn't I?
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About 15 years ago I was hit by a car while crossing the street - it messed up my left knee and broke my leg right below the knee. Lately, if I do a lot of walking, it hurts right below that knee, I think in the same place where my leg broke. Is it possible for an old break in a leg to start hurting years later? There are two screws in my leg bone at that point, if that makes any difference.
Since we are on the subject of hiccups, do other people have hiccup triggers? I know of one for myself-- eating bread or certain kinds of crackers if I haven't eaten or drunk anything else for several hours.
My mother gets them if she doesn't drink, or doesn't drink enough, or waits too long to drink, while eating anything. Mine seem much more random.
It seems to me that my 10th grade biology teacher explained the physiology of hiccups somewhere along these lines: the lungs and diaphragm get out of sync and both expand at the same time, which is what forces the air out in the little hic, so whatever cure you're using only works if/when it manages to get them back into sync. I have no confidence that I've given an accurate recount of his explanation, as that was more than 20 years ago.
That's how I understood the process to work. The diaphragm is an automatic muscle, so it's hard to consciously "reset" it.
I know of one for myself-- eating bread or certain kinds of crackers if I haven't eaten or drunk anything else for several hours.
That is my hiccup trigger. Once, when I was in high school, I came home late (I was not out drinking) and was hungry and ate several slices of bread. And got the hiccups. My mother, to this day, is convinced I was drunk despite no other evidence. I told her about the bread thing and she thought I was craxy!
Of course, this is the same woman who was convinced that I was hanging my coat on the plastic hanger she used for her coat instead of the identical hanger next to it that I was supposed to use for my coat because I was trying to send her a subliminal message that I hated and disrespected her. I was 25 at the time.