Posted on 03/01/2007 5:46:10 PM PST by rawhide
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — She sipped pickle juice, held her breath, breathed into a bag, even went to a neurologist, but for more than five weeks nothing would stop a 15-year-old girl's rapid hiccups — until they finally just stopped on their own.
After trying countless remedies and attracting national media attention, Jennifer Mee said her hiccups suddenly stopped around 5 p.m. Wednesday. No one is certain why.
"Right now, my nose is burning and my throat hurts," she told the St. Petersburg Times, but she said she felt a lot better than she has in weeks.
Jennifer had started hiccuping Jan. 23 close to 50 times a minute and said it only stopped when she was sleeping.
She saw an infectious disease specialist, a neurologist, a chiropractor, a hypnotist and an acupuncturist. She tried a patented device that is designed to stop hiccups, plus all the old remedies. Her mother called the media two weeks ago to try to find more help for her daughter, who ended up on NBC's "Today" show.
According to the National Institutes of Health, hiccups can be triggered by anything from spicy foods to stress, and they can start for no reason at all. They're caused by involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, which causes the vocal cords to close briefly, making that distinctive sound.
Small time stuff. Charles Osborne started hiccupping in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog, and continued hiccupping until 1990. .....at a 20 - 40 hiccup per minute clip for the entirely of the 68 years.
I saw that on the news today and was thinking, that poor girl is going to be horrified the next time she has a single hiccup.
Is that when he died?
Death, the surefire cure ..... for everything.
Hmmmmm. Prayer?
Didn't this story go national on Wednesday morning? That's when I saw it on Fox News.
Seeing her suffering was heartbreaking.
I'm sure there were suddenly lots of folks praying for her once they saw the story.
LOL!
I had the hiccups in boot camp, and there are things even a Marine Drill Instructor cannot stop.
But oh boy, how they tried........
Man Tries To Scare Hiccups Out Of Nephew, Kills Him
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A Colombian man who tried to startle his nephew from a bout of the hiccups by pointing a gun at him accidentally pulled the trigger and killed him.
Yeah, kinda makes five weeks look like Sesame Street, doesn't it?
I probably would have killed myself after a week of hiccuping.
Did the hiccups stop?
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