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How can I deal with hiccups while at home?

Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Jun 18 12:00pm | Replies (17)
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@donnyboy

Well, the hiccups have finally passed, after 8-10 days, including days its was 24x7. The treatment was thorazine, which did bring me significant fatigue. I stopped taking it 3 days ago. The choice of medication - there are many medications that address hiccups - was made by my neurologist in consideration of my basic problem, which is a demyelination disease becoming more recognized, namely Clippers. I was preparing to switch to metoclopramide as a medication when the hiccups went away.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I will definitely try some of the home-based ones if and when I have milder occurrences of hiccups. Enjoy the summer!

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ericy210 | @ericy210 | Jun 9 4:42pm

Thanks for sharing the term Clippers. I have long Covid and have in clinical trials for two years. There was a month that i hiccuped 18 hours a day, like 8 hiccups a minute for 45 minutes. Sure enough, I see science has confirmed demyelination disease and the link to Covid.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8359762/

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donnyboy | @donnyboy | Jun 18 12:00pm

Well, the hiccups returned, not as severely but definitely as annoyingly. This time I was successful for a while with home time remedies, such as stopping drinking coffee, which had produced very minor burps or belches which would turn into hiccups. The hiccups went away quickly for a whole day or two before returning. I also found that seriously holding my breath (mouth shut, fingers squeezing nose and counting 6-7 hiccups before gasping for air) worked twice, but not a third time. So, a prescription for Metoclopramide came to the rescue and I have been hiccup-free for almost a week. I like this medication, it doesn't make me sleepy and it calms my digestive tract, which had also produced small burps and belches starting hiccups. There is a psychological factor in hiccuping, for sure: hiccuping after lunch, I took my first Metoclopramide pill and the hiccups stopped immediately!

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