[HopeLivesHere]

Hello,

I am having lots of hiccups.
They are very very strong & uncomfortable but aren't unstoppable.

They come with fatigue so severe I have no choice but to go back to bed, which is where
I'm heading in a few minutes.
Actually I wrote this 2 hours ago and was too tired to hit submit so I lost the who thing and am respeaking it. I fell asleep.

Often they start without eating but frequently they come on spontaneously during or after dinner. There is a strong possibility I could aspirate so I stop eating until they stop.
Not related to this is when my swallow muscles are paralyzed for 15-30 secs but that may not be accurate timing because I fall asleep as soon as that happens.


Thanks for any input you may have.
hope

[johannakat]

Hope- I am sorry I have no ideas for you..... I will keep you in my thoughts tonight hoping that relief is on the way.

Johanna

[astern]

Hi Hope, how irritating!

Are you taking valium? I notice when I take it I get hiccups. Don't understand why.

I also get the swallowing problem - I sometimes choke mid-swallow, or when talking/eating AND turning my head to one side or the other. I'd say It happens a couple of times a week.

Now, when I was taking the post-surgery level of pain meds, I would wake up choking on my own spit! THAT was scary!!

Sorry I don't have answers... only questions.
Anne

[trix]

I get the hiccups too. I also occasionally have the swallowing problem. For me it does not come with fatigue. If I get the hiccups in the am, I will have them all day. No idea what to do about it though. Sorry.
Tracy

[G-mom2]

Hope,

You are not alone. I get this alot as soon as I start eating hiccups start. So i drink alot and they go away so I start eating again (not really as hungry then after all the fluid) but it works.
Same with medications As soon as I get 1-2 pills down hiccups start and I do the fluids again to get the rest down. Pain in the hiney it is.
Never mentioned it as i THOUGHT it was just me and never connected it to TOS.
Sometimes it doesn't happen at all.

just be careful,
G-mom2

[Sea Pines 50]

Hey Hope

I sent you an email but wanted to share this on the forum b/c I saw it work once for someone who suffered horribly with hiccups. She was so amazed and grateful!

My friend had her put a cold pack on a certain muscle on the side of her neck (it may have been the omohyoid muscle, I'm not sure - his dad was a dr., he called it the "hiccup" muscle).

Her awful hiccups fell silent seconds later. 'Twas a miracle, I tell ya!

The omohyoid muscle is attached to the horseshoe-shaped omohyoid bone which I think is involved with the swallowing mechanism. Only muscle in the body which changes direction and something else unique about it... can't remember right now but has to do w/what it attaches to on other end

bye kids hope this helps someone

[HopeLivesHere]

Thanks,

I checked Wikipedia...interesting stuff...esp the phrenic nerve.
I'm just trying to relate it to TOS - maybe yes, maybe no...
especially about the omohyoid at the front of the neck....attachment to the scapula.

hope

[painfree]

Treatment for chronic hiccups based on a paper written by Janet Travell, MD years ago.

Lean forward.Take a deep breath and exhale.Then gently touch an object, such as the back of a spoon of spatula (helps if you cool it in ice first), to the uvula palatina, the pendulum tissue which hangs down in the back of the throat.Though it may cause slight gagging it stops hiccups instantly.

[johannakat]

bump for beth re: swallowing problems

[monalisa,md]

pickles- actually vinegar works for me. In fact,any acidic food or liquid does the trick, ie tomato, orange, orange juice. I now have tos including arterial impingement bilaterally post motor vehicle accidnt. The remedy still works so far but I was concerned about the phrenic nerve which innervates the solar plexus or diaphragm. (travels through brachial plexus as I recall, somewhere around the shoulder area as shoulder pain can be indicative of an injury to the diaphragm or adjacent structure, but in the case of tos is likely related to the nerve impingement.) My hiccups have just started,my diagnosis after progressive symptoms was only made 4 weeks ago. hope this helps