[Kitty]

Okay, I've had the hiccups now for the past two hours.

Nothing seems to help. I haven't had the hiccups in years. What's causing this? Is it MS related?

Any suggestions to get rid of them? It was funny at first but now it's just annoying.

[karousel]

Uuuurrgghhh! I get hiccups a lot and it is very annoying. But it has never lasted as long as yours have.

Have you tried a spoonful of sugar or brown sugar? How about leaning forward, with your chin tucked in, and swallow three times? You need to break the rythym of your diaphram or something like that.

I hope you can stop them soon.

[Lady]

It's spasms of your diaphragm. More spasms, what can I say. Like we need more of them.

I used to get them very often, 10 times a day before a relapse. I used it as one of my signs a relapse was eminent. It just meant an increase in spasticity, because all my symptoms would worsen. And I have a choking issue too.

OR: If you talk while eating, use a straw, get up too quickly after eating, or eat in a rush you can get them, being a normal person, baby or kid.

Drink water very, very slowly, while someone holds your ears. My Grandma's remedy.

[Kitty]

Well, they're gone. Don't know exactly when they stopped but I just realized I haven't hiccuped in over five minutes so hopefully they've left.

[Koala77]

I'm pleased you're feeling better Kitty. If the hiccups do return, breathing in and out of a paper bag will usually get rid of them.....

[Twinkletoes]

I hadn't thought of hiccups as being MS related.

I hadn't had them in years, but got them not long ago for at least 20 minutes. So annoying.

Some guy from Utah was on Johnny Carson because he couldn't quit hiccupping. Did it all day and night. Bleh.

[Dejibo]

I get them constantly. In the hospital setting we would help patients get rid of them by

Taking in a deep breath, blowing it out, then taking 13 small sips of water from a glass. it will feel like you are running out of air, and by the time you hit 13 youre ready to gasp for some air. This resets the Carbon dioxide level in your body, and forces the diaphram to relax. Why 13? its just an easy number. If you can only make 12 or 11 then go for it. I have yet to see this one fail.

Hiccups are miserable creatures. Esp when you hiccup, burp, swallow. yick!

[jackD]

Looks like hiccups can be a sympton of MS.

jackD aka (Braindead)


Neurology. 2006 Nov 14;67(9):1684-6.


Pathologic laughing and intractable hiccups can occur early in multiple sclerosis.

de Seze J, Zephir H, Hautecoeur P, Mackowiak A, Cabaret M, Vermersch P.

Department of Neurology, CHU of Lille, France.

Pathologic laughing occurs in approximately 10% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), especially when patients have entered the chronic stage. We describe four patients with MS who, at an early stage, developed pathologic laughing associated, in two cases, with intractable hiccups. In two patients, MRI showed an enhanced lesion in the medulla oblongata and the mesencephalon, two regions suspected of being involved in pathologic laughing and intractable hiccups.

Publication Types:
Case Reports

PMID: 17101907 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Neurology. 1979 Jun;29(6):797-801.


Hoquet diabolique: intractable hiccups as a manifestation of multiple sclerosis.

McFarling DA, Susac JO.

In three patients, intractable hiccups occurred as part of the symptomatology of multiple sclerosis. In one patient intractable hiccups were the presenting complaint, and in another patient exacerbations of symptoms were almost always heralded by intractable hiccups. Intractable hiccups occur in a variety of diseases, including many that affect the brainstem and cervical cord, but have not been reported in multiple sclerosis. The hiccup may be a "primitive" gastrointestinal reflex that is disinhibited by lesions such as multiple sclerosis plaques. Carbamazepine was successful in arresting the hiccups in one of the cases presented.

Publication Types:
Case Reports

PMID: 221856 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[Becca44]

Originally Posted by Kitty

Well, they're gone. Don't know exactly when they stopped but I just realized I haven't hiccuped in over five minutes so hopefully they've left.

Thank goodness they're gone!!! They're the worst.... I HATE having hiccups.
Put 'em out of your mind and let's hope they don't come back to bug you.

[Jodylee]

Two days!! OMG, Kelly, thank goodness they're gone! Sometimes it seems like MS can cause just about anything.