What is your favorite Hic-up cure?????

[illini]

You have a favorite I can tell!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deja Q]

1. Amputation

:evilgrin:

[HeeBGBz]

2. Have someone ask you this question.

"Have you seen the white rabbit?"

It works for me.

[illini]

3. it didnt work

Mine is drinking from the other side of the glass.

[gtp1976]

4. two.

a swig of vinegar or a spoonfull of sugar.

If neither of these work, then you just have to quit drinking, and hold your breath as long as you can. :-)

[catzies]

5. Drinking water upside down has worked for me for 34 years.

I learned it when I was 8.

[PassingFair]

11. This is my favorite cure, too!

But don't do it in front of casual gentlemen aquaintances...they seem to think it looks arousing....
Anyway, it has NEVER not worked for me.

[kodi]

13. drinking a glass of water from the opposite lip of the glass

place your chin in the glass and tilt it away from you until the water level reaches your lips then swallow several gulps of water. your head is almost upside down by the time it happens

apparently your way and mine both work and i guess it is the way our throats are positioned when we drink.

[democracyindanger]

25. Don't even have to drink it upside down

The way I understand it, you just drink a glass of water until you feel like you might be drowning. It has to do with hiccups being a result of an irritated diaphragm, and choking down water re-irritates it, setting it back to normal.

[unblock]

6. BOO!!!!

cures mrs. unblock of it pretty effectively.

for my own hiccups, i used to "swallow" my hiccups, i.e., try to swallow at the same time as a hiccup. it worked rather well once i got the hang of it.

nowadays, my hiccups go away as soon as i realize i've got 'em. i might hiccup 3 or 4 times in a row, tops, then nothing for months.

[Floogeldy]

7. Scaring the shit out of someone works

[stupid grin]

8. Get up in front of a group of people

or one person if that's all you can find, and they should ask you to hiccup for them. When you *try* to hiccup, under pressure, it's nearly impossible.

My high school English teacher would take any hiccup victim to the office, put them over the intercom and ask them to hiccup. Worked like a charm.

[azoth]

9. If you're in a bar, ask the barkeep for bitters and lemon.

A little bitters in a shot glass followed by a hearty suck on a lemon wedge will cure *anyone* of the hiccups. ANYone.

:)

[illini]

10. whuppp their gone now.

thanks

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

12. this sounds silly but it works

you will need 2 pinkie fingers, 2 thumbs, a glass of water and another person. close your nostrils with your pinkie fingers and your ears with your thumbs and have the other person feed you the glass of water. take a few gulps and voila, the hiccups are gone.

[WMliberal]

14. punch in the stomach

if the diaphragm is in pain, it can't do the hiccup spasms.

[unblock]

16. the phrase "the cure is worse than the disease" comes to mind....

[yellowdogintexas]

15. take a deep breath and hold it

if that doesn't get it, drinking a glass of water will usually do it..
take a deep breath and drink the water down straight without stopping

[burn the bush]

17. very slow breathing like in mediatation has worked every single time

[bloodyjack]

18. stand on your head while drinking water really fast

actually, tickling my nostrils with a tapered Kleenex works for me the first time, every time (induces sneezing)

[Mojambo]

19. Tall shot of pickle juice n/t

[Red State Blues]

20. paper bag

breathe into a smallish paper bag. keep it relatively tight against your face and concentrate the carbon dioxide in the bag. If you do it right the bag should collapse and blow up as you breathe. A little outside air is ok but if you breathe so deeply that you're still taking in fresh air long after the bag has collapsed flat (or breathing through your nose) it won't work.

sounds less complicated than it is. has never let me down.

[Piperay]

21. Spoonful of dry sugar

works for me everytime. :-)

[fleabert]

22. I love you.

This only works on people I would never say it to. I have done it in restaurants, stores, on the street, etc...

It was done to me once and worked beautifully, I suggest everyone pass it on once just to see.

ask the person if they want you to get rid of their hiccups, they (if they are strangers espcially) will be skeptical and say 'I guess, are you going to hit me?' I usually laugh and say no, it doesn't hurt.

Hold their hand, ask then to look in your eyes without blinking, concentrate very hard on what you are about to say. Speak very slowly and evenly. Then say "I love you." very sincerely. They will be so shocked the hiccups will be gone. I then ask them to pass it on next time they hear someone with the hiccups.

It works every single time, and everyone always gets a laugh and a story out of it...i.e. 'you will never believe what this odd woman did today to get rid of my hiccups'

[mattclearing]

23. More alcohol.

eom.

[bettyellen]

24. drink water through a cloth stretched tautly on the top of the glass

you have to gulp most of it. always works for me!

[RebelOne]

26. Take a big swig of vinegar.

Believe me, it works every time for me.