ST. PETERSBURG - (AP) -- Jennifer Mee can't stop hiccuping.
For more than three weeks now, the 15-year-old St. Petersburg teen has hiccuped close to 50 times a minute -- despite the best efforts of doctors and home remedies.
She's had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI. Drugs haven't worked. Neither has holding her breath, putting sugar under her tongue, sipping pickle juice, breathing into a paper bag and drinking out of the wrong side of a glass.
And, yes, people have tried to scare them out of her.
The hiccups do stop when she's sleeping.
According to the National Institutes of Health, hiccups are caused by involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, which causes vocal cords to briefly close, which makes that distinctive hiccup sound. They can start for no reason or be triggered by anything from spicy foods to stress.
It is not clear what triggered Jennifer's hiccups, which started in school on Jan. 23. Her mother, Rachel Robidoux, recently turned to the local newspaper for help.
''I'm just looking for some answers where somebody's gone through this,'' Robidoux told The St. Petersburg Times. ``At this point, we're willing to do anything.''
take a glass..fill it with water..put a paper towel or a thick napkin over the top of the edge..drink all of the water very slowly through the paper towel/napkin..make sure you do not stop drinkin the water until its all gone
fullproof im tellin ya..greatest hiccup cure ever
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there was a scientific study done (last year i think) which found that all of those so-called 'remedies' for curing hiccups do not work, save one: sticking your finger up your arse (seriously).
failing that, i guess they could inject some botox into her diaphragm or something.
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vacatetheword wrote:
there was a scientific study done (last year i think) which found that all of those so-called 'remedies' for curing hiccups do not work, save one: sticking your finger up your arse (seriously).
failing that, i guess they could inject some botox into her diaphragm or something.
Methinks botox would be a terrible idea. Mayhaps something else more temporary.
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simple schoolboy wrote:
vacatetheword wrote:
there was a scientific study done (last year i think) which found that all of those so-called 'remedies' for curing hiccups do not work, save one: sticking your finger up your arse (seriously).
failing that, i guess they could inject some botox into her diaphragm or something.
Methinks botox would be a terrible idea. Mayhaps something else more temporary.
it probably would be, i'm not a doctor. life's all about taking chances!
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vacatetheword wrote:
there was a scientific study done (last year i think) which found that all of those so-called 'remedies' for curing hiccups do not work, save one: sticking your finger up your arse (seriously).
That seriously made me laugh out loud. Which sucked because I was sort of clinching my jaw at the time and it hurt.
When my father was on some Destroyer in the waters outside of Vietnam in the late 1960s or early 1970s he had the hiccups for two weeks. They had to severely medicate him just so he could sleep. And since I've known this basically my entire conscious life, every time I get the hiccups I am scared shitless they will never go away.
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Damn. The longest I ever had the hiccups was like, a couple hours, and at that point it really started to hurt. I can't imagine having them for WEEKS. That's insane.
Charles Osborne (c. 1893– May 1, 1991) hiccupped continuously for 68 years (1922-1990).
Osborne, from Anthon, Iowa, USA, was entered in Guinness World Records as the man with the Longest Attack of Hiccups. The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping on June 5, 1990, after his daughter, Melissa, prayed for him (for which she earned a $10,000 reward) – a total of 68 years. His condition also led him to be a guest on Ripley's Believe It or Not! in 1936, ABC's That's Incredible! in 1980, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1983, and to be featured as a question in the board game Trivial Pursuit.
Osborne began hiccupping in 1922, while slaughtering a hog. Despite his condition, Osborne was able to lead a normal life, which included being married twice and having eight children.
Osborne died of complications from ulcers at Marian Health Center in Sioux City, Iowa on May 1, 1991 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Anthon, Iowa three days later.
It has been estimated that Osborne hiccupped 430 million times over the 68 year period.
Charles Osborne (c. 1893– May 1, 1991) hiccupped continuously for 68 years (1922-1990).
Osborne, from Anthon, Iowa, USA, was entered in Guinness World Records as the man with the Longest Attack of Hiccups. The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping on June 5, 1990, after his daughter, Melissa, prayed for him (for which she earned a $10,000 reward) – a total of 68 years. His condition also led him to be a guest on Ripley's Believe It or Not! in 1936, ABC's That's Incredible! in 1980, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1983, and to be featured as a question in the board game Trivial Pursuit.
Osborne began hiccupping in 1922, while slaughtering a hog. Despite his condition, Osborne was able to lead a normal life, which included being married twice and having eight children.
Osborne died of complications from ulcers at Marian Health Center in Sioux City, Iowa on May 1, 1991 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Anthon, Iowa three days later.
It has been estimated that Osborne hiccupped 430 million times over the 68 year period.
His headstone reads:
THAT JOB GUY WAS ONE LUCKY MOTHERFUCKER
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