Posted on 02/14/2007 12:19:07 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Jennifer Mee of St. Petersburg has tried scores of remedies and seen several doctors. Still, the 15-year-old's hiccups persist. LINK at source above to hear her hiccups.
ST. PETERSBURG She has tried holding her breath. Drinking water from the far side of the glass. Putting sugar under her tongue. Sipping pickle juice. Holding a paper bag over her face as she inhales and exhales.
None of that stops 15-year-old Jennifer Mees hiccups.
It started more than three weeks ago during first-period science class at Northeast High School. After about 15 minutes of nonstop hiccuping, she went to the medical clinic on campus. The staff there worked with her for five hours, and still she hiccuped.
That was Jan. 23.
In the weeks since, she has seen a pediatrician, a cardiologist and a neurologist. She has had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI. She had an allergic reaction to one medicine, which triggered hives.
Something like 50 times a minute, Jennifer Mee hiccups, a staccato routine that sounds a bit like a smoke alarm whose battery has run out. Her mother, Rachel Robidoux, likens it to the sound of chihuahua barking.
When they go to Wal-Mart, strangers come up to them and try to scare the hiccups away. They offer prayer and healing hands and folk remedies, none of which has worked so far.
So Robidoux turned to the St. Petersburg Times.
Im just looking for some answers, she said, where somebodys gone through this. At this point, were willing to do anything.
Paging 60Gunner to the ER, stat!
I drink 10 sips of water without breathing. There was actually an episode on the health channel where a woman had had them for weeks and I missed what they did.
1 glass cold water. 1 big breath. 10 swallows without breathing.
Resets the vagus nerve.
antipsychotic and they went away.
We used to use Thorazine 25 with mixed results. Not enought for antipsychotic properties.
I daresay the scriptwriters wouldn't dare add that detail! Real life is stranger than fiction.
I HAVE THE ANSWER !!!! LAMAZE BREATHING- JUST LIKE WHEN A WOMAN IS HAVING A BABY- IT'S SOUNDS CRAZY, BUT IT WORKS! AND I LOVE WHEN GUYS TRY IT! GOOD LUCK !
Visit this site and order "The Hic-Cup." http://www.hic-cups.com/ I got one several months ago for my husband who frequently gets hiccups. It has stopped them every time!
To start with, she should quit whinin'.
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long44.html
THE LONGEST HICCUP FIT
So what was the longest hiccup fit in the world?
The biggest cause of hiccups is eating [too] fast.
Back in 1922 Charles Osborne of Iowa must have done just that, because he got a case of the hiccups. Actually his hiccups started while he was weighing a hog.
This was no ordinary case, it was a world record hiccup fit, it lasted 68 years up until they mysteriously stopped in 1990, hiccupping an estimated 430 million times. He died 1 year after his hiccups stopped.
In the early years Charles Osborne hiccupped up to 40 times a minute, which in the later years slowed to 20 times.
Charles Osborne, however, did manage a somewhat ordinary life, he was married twice and had 8 children.
You know... I'd get ~real~ tired of that.
How wierd would that be? For years and years of having the hiccups only to be sitting there and have them stop all by themselves? I think I might even be a little annoyed.
Early Edition: The St. Petersburg girl who has had the hiccups for three weeks will appear on the Today show Friday.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/15/Tampabay/She_just_wants_some_h.shtml
HA! If it doesn't work the first time, keep doing it!
Wax someone in the face with a mop, check.
Could your hiccupping be caused by allergies? Could you be allergic to certain foods? Do you remember eating a certain food before it started? Or you could even be allergic to some thing in your house? Maybe dust mites or maybe the perfume your wearing?
Or maybe it's just psychosamatic. Are you stress out about school or a relationship? Have you tried exercising or relaxation techniques.
A spoonful of peanut butter always does the trick for me. It gums up the mouth, and the effort to swallow the peanut butter seems to calm the diaphragm. Water has never worked for me.
**snicker** took me a minute to figure out why you pinged me. Thanks, I needed a chuckle
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