I’ve tried many things before, but in the past couple days I’ve found that eating a packet or two of mustard tends to get rid of hiccups.

What sort of tricks do you folks have?

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Take a glass of water, bend over forward, drink from the opposite side of the glass while your head is upside down. Drink the whole thing. Cured!

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This is it, although I just put the water in my mouth and bend over then swallow. Swallowing water while upside down = 100% cure.

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Just quickly drinking a full glass of water usually does the trick

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I used to do this with a straw while head was upside down. Worked really well when I was younger but haven’t tried it recently.

I do the thing where you drink water while rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Success rate is pretty low tbh.

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This will sound like a joke, but is 100% true.

The most effective, clinically proven, method to cure hiccups is anal digital stimulation. Finger your butthole. You don’t have to go deep, unless you want to, just tease the opening though. You can have someone tongue punch your fart box as well because the method of stimulation doesn’t matter and I am sure the research ran out of funding before testing alternative methods of stimulation.

Edit: Might as well include a NIH article on the matter.

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I think I’ll just squirt some mustard up my ass, but thank you for the advice 👍

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You’re doing twice the work, but I ain’t here to kink shame.

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LOL, you should know I was being sarcastic there!

But for real, add that one to your potential hiccup remedies, eat a small glob of mustard, if nothing else works anyways.

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try finger but hole

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Does that cure the fingerer or the fingeree?

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Here’s a method that’s always worked for me and others.

Get a glass of water, cool is preferred but any reasonable temperature is ok.

Take small, tiny, repeated sips from the rim of the glass, like an infant on a nipple, drinking and swallowing the water.

Do this for ten-twenty seconds and you’ll be rid of them.

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Easy! Just disbelieve them!

Say the following out loud:

Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm

A spasm is defined as a random tensing of a muscle

If the hiccups are random, they will not appear in a pattern

Therefore these hiccups do not exist.

If you hiccup part way through, you have to start over. Once you get through the whole thing, your hiccups are cured.

Ok, now hear me out. This isn’t just a joke, I’ve had at least two people that I hadn’t seen in years call me up and say, I need you to tell me the hiccup cure, now!

My best theory as to why it works, is that you’re focusing on repeating the words fast enough, and/or it makes you breath irregularly and breaks the hiccups. Or maybe it’s just the magical power of the mind! Oooooooooh!

Oh. It never works when you’re drunk. I don’t know why, but drink hiccups seem to be resistant to the method.

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You can also just memorize and recite this, comes in handy for more than just hiccups:

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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There’s something about focus or attention. If I hiccup, as soon as I realize it’s happening it stops. If I’m drunk I might not notice for a bit and the hiccups will continue until I can bring my will to bear on them.

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Dying. Works every time first time and they never come back.

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