Third time this year I've been admitted to the hospital for fucking..

[Thrawn]

Hiccups and their gastric side effects. Go ahead laugh but these hiccups are violent and it feels like my inside are being torn apart and last for days.
No answers yet except 20% of my swallows are abnormal according to some swallow test I had to do.
Found hiatal hernia and suspect Gerd.
Nothing jumping out at doctors.

 

[CJ]

That sucks. Sorry, bud. Hope they figure it out.

 

[Santa]

It’s been awhile because I have made some changes but I was getting horrible hiccups (sometimes associated with burps). Same shit. Would last for hours. So I started writing down what I was doing, what I was eating.

I noticed that certain foods, my posture while eating, being dehydrated, staring down at my phone while eating for example, was likely compromising my diaphragm and stomach. So I’ve been very cautious to slow down while eating, keeping good posture, staying hydrated.

I don’t know if any of this is doing anything - but I haven’t had hiccup attack in quite a while.

Whatever you need to do, I hope you find an answer.

 

[snake]

Oh damn brother! I hope they figure that out for you. I couldn't picture dealing with that

 

[Yano]

That sucks man ! I'd rather be eaten by a fucking shark than have the hiccups. God Bless

 

[simplesteve]

Hiccups and their gastric side effects. Go ahead laugh but these hiccups are violent and it feels like my inside are being torn apart and last for days.
No answers yet except 20% of my swallows are abnormal according to some swallow test I had to do.
Found hiatal hernia and suspect Gerd.
Nothing jumping out at doctors.

What does this swallow test include????? My wife usually passes the swallow test with flying colors.

 

[AssociateX]

It’s been awhile because I have made some changes but I was getting horrible hiccups (sometimes associated with burps). Same shit. Would last for hours. So I started writing down what I was doing, what I was eating.

I noticed that certain foods, my posture while eating, being dehydrated, staring down at my phone while eating for example, was likely compromising my diaphragm and stomach. So I’ve been very cautious to slow down while eating, keeping good posture, staying hydrated.

I don’t know if any of this is doing anything - but I haven’t had hiccup attack in quite a while.

Whatever you need to do, I hope you find an answer.

I've definitely seen food triggers cause hiccups before.

The first time I had a food triggered hiccup episode I was a very young kid around kindergarten age. The trigger was angel food cake, not the frosting or anything else but the bread part of the cake. It caused the most powerful, uncontrollable, and painful hiccups I've ever had that lasted for hours. In between the first time and the last time I had angel food cake, sometime in my late teens, it would cause a reaction within minutes everytime.

Then, sometime in my 30s I used to grow the world's hottest peppers. At the time they were Trinidad scorpion Butch T strain and Carolina reapers. I would make extracts from the peppers to make candies and another food items. Hundreds of people had tried the foods I made from these peppers and there was a small portion, something like 5 to 3% of people, that would have uncontrollable violent hiccups from the candies.

Now rewind back to when I was a kid, my hiccups were so bad that I was taken in to be seen for them. I remember the doctor explaining in simple terms that hiccups were from the body trying to rearrange something uncomfortable in the stomach. The stomach being uncomfortable caused a reflex in the body to gasp followed immediately by the body closing the airway in the throat.

The doctor's solution to my hiccups was he told me to breathe in as deep as I could to stretch out my lungs, then exhale and breathe in even deeper then lock down and hold my breath like I was going to go underwater. He told me to hold that as long as I could then exhale and repeat a deep inhale and hold and repeat that until I could no longer feel the contractions in my diaphragm.

I tell you what, that did two things, it greatly reduced the pain while I was having the hiccups and it did make the hiccups eventually go away.

To the OP, I hope this helps.

 

[AlexDavis43]

Hiccups and their gastric side effects. Go ahead laugh but these hiccups are violent and it feels like my inside are being torn apart and last for days.
No answers yet except 20% of my swallows are abnormal according to some swallow test I had to do.
Found hiatal hernia and suspect Gerd.
Nothing jumping out at doctors.

Baclofen will stop the hiccups acutely but you still gotta figure out why you're having hiccups in the first place.

 

[Blusoul24]

This may sound like a strange remedy, but eating a teaspoon full of sugar seems to get rid of the hiccups every time.

I have literally had people arguing with me that it wasn't going to work and suddenly their hiccups were gone.

 

[Kraken]

No laughing here, I have been there. I went through a period of time not too long ago where eating would trigger hiccups that would last about 24 to 34 hours. I wish I could tell you exactly what triggered it, all I could figure was that it was eating. No matter how slowly or carefully I ate, it would trigger hiccups.

All the cures people try failed. I just had to ride it out.

I wish I had some brilliant suggestion for you. Good luck!

 

[goodfella]

I've had this occur before but not at your level. I wasn't able to sleep for a few nights cus they were so constant and intense. I remember going to a urgent care and then the hospital and they couldn't do shit for me but tell me to hang in there and should pass. I'm rooting for you man and will give a pray for you tonight to try and give some good faith.

 

[Signsin1]

I had had a severe case of pneumonia that caused "Pleural Effusion" (water on the lung)..
Gave me violent hiccups for days and found that this worked when nothing else did... Sometimes the hiccups would come back but it would give me long periods of breaks between, then finally just went away.

 

[Kraken]

I had had a severe case of pneumonia that caused "Pleural Effusion" (water on the lung)..
Gave me violent hiccups for days and found that this worked when nothing else did... Sometimes the hiccups would come back but it would give me long periods of breaks between, then finally just went away.
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Great to see it comes in different colors! That's critically important.

 

[Signsin1]

Great to see it comes in different colors! That's critically important.

Combo pack. Fuck yeah!

 

[Bro Bundy]

Are I taking benzodiazepines they give horrible hiccups

 

[Thrawn]

I had had a severe case of pneumonia that caused "Pleural Effusion" (water on the lung)..
Gave me violent hiccups for days and found that this worked when nothing else did... Sometimes the hiccups would come back but it would give me long periods of breaks between, then finally just went away.
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Got one last yr did not work for me.

 

[Thrawn]

This may sound like a strange remedy, but eating a teaspoon full of sugar seems to get rid of the hiccups every time.

I have literally had people arguing with me that it wasn't going to work and suddenly their hiccups were gone.

Straight white sugar?

 

[Thrawn]

What does this swallow test include????? My wife usually passes the swallow test with flying colors.

One test consisted of a tube was put up my nose down my esophagus and I had to swallow water 10 times.

The most recent test I had a tube up my nose down my esophagus for 24 hours and I had to document if I was standing up or laying down, every time I ate, every time I had reflux, hiccups, chest pain, or any other gastric issue. It's been 3 weeks and they haven't posted the results yet they told me it would be two to three weeks though.

I'm glad your wife passed because mine never sat for the test.

 

[#TheMatrix]

Do you use a CPAP?

Sometimes when you eat too fast. With out water and food is dry AF. Do you get hiccups?

 

[Thrawn]

Do you use a CPAP?

Sometimes when you eat too fast. With out water and food is dry AF. Do you get hiccups?

Yes i use CPAP, ever since my thyroid went out I have two thermoses of water that carry with me everywhere I go because I'm thirsty all the time. I don't think I would consider my food dry.
I could be dead wrong but my logic thinks it has something to do with my hiatal hernia since both have to do with the diaphragm. Last year I was throwing up and I had the most intense pain in my lower sternum like something ripped open I was in tears. Whenever I do throw up I'm not one and done, I throw up until bile comes out and I'm very loud about it. I will say about 8 years ago when my ulcer was fixed My vomiting spells have dropped 90%