[xcamel]

There was a story a few years ago about a man who had been "hiccupping" for 74 years, IIRC.

[Cagey]

Video at Source.

[Oztrich Boy]

Doctors have reportedly said she is not faking it but are stumped by the contractions.

"stumped " no such word

[xcamel]

Sunday, May 09, 2004
Man Has Been Hiccuping For 44 years

News Observer: Man has been hiccuping for 44 years


John Francis Crosland has been hiccuping for more than 40 years. Every day since John F. Kennedy was first in office as president, Crosland has gulped or gasped or had that catch in his throat.

"I just hiccup all the time. A lot of times I be doing something and hiccuping, and I don't pay them no attention," he said. "If you want to know the truth, it don't too much matter. It worries other people more than it worries me."

Crosland, who is 68, could be on his way to having the world's longest case of continuing hiccups.

The Guinness Book of World Records lists an Iowa man, Charles Osborne, as having them the longest: 69 years. Osborne was slaughtering a hog in 1922 when he first began hiccuping, and he is said to have hiccuped at the rate of 40 times a minute until February 1990. He died a year later.

[xJones]

Mee has been hiccupping about 50 times a minute since January.

That must be very tiring, and just imagine living like that.

[OldFriend]

Hubby had a long seige of the hiccups following intestinal surgery some years ago. The hospital tried all kinds of remedies until after about a week, they stopped on their own. They are exhausting tho.

I feel for this girl.

[Howdy there]

Margaret Mitchell’s husband John Marsh had a severe case of hiccups that weakened his heart.