This editor has somehow managed to "catch" hiccups by trying to burp at the same time the hiccup occurs, so the orgasm cure isn't the only way to stop them.

Hold your breath while drinking a glass of water. It works every time. It's also much simpler than any other method.

And that method is suitable for attempting in public, and on minors. This editor uses soda with a straw, if possible.

This troper wonders how one can breathe ''while drinking water.''

It's easiest with a straw. Breathe in through the nose, draw the liquid up through the straw into your mouth, breath out (nose again), swallow, repeat--in-up-out-down. It also helps you learn how to control your breathing, and with practice you can actually get to where you can manage it as in/up-out/down (two motions) which might not do much for hiccups but gets stares as you don't seem to need to stop to breathe while drinking. (In theory, you don't ''really'' need the water, as long as you can manage the pattern and keep it steady, but liquid gives you the backup option of trying to breathe the liquid. Apparently, coughing your lungs out '''and''' hiccuping is not something easily managed.)

This editor has a sure-fire way... the problem is, it doesn't work if you know someone's trying it on you, hence the spoiler tag: If you can get the person with hiccups to say the word "shark" without them knowing that it will cure their hiccups, the hiccups will be cured. Under those conditions it has always, ''always'', worked. Once you know of the trick though, it doesn't work. ItOnlyWorksOnce. The universe moves in mysterious ways my friend.

This troper used to be given money to stop hiccuping. It worked the first three or four times, then stopped again. Obviously, this was because the sums of money got smaller and smaller, due to the hiccups becoming more and more frequent.

There is one reason why most hiccup cures "work". They take enough time to carry out for the hiccups to go away.

That...certainly does explain the advice at the top of the page...

My favourite solution was when a pupil complained to the teacher of hiccups. The teacher immediately announced that said pupil was going to hiccup for the class.

Vomiting works every time.

This troper gets a big spoonful of peanut butter and swallows it all at once. Works every time.

This troper just gave up trying to cure her hiccups. She would just randomly hiccup at the oddest time, no matter what she was doing. She now believes that she's just drunk subconsciously all the time.

One of the best little-known ways of curing hiccups- especially if you don't have a very sensitive gag reflex- is to tickle the soft pallet of your throat. You know, the back of your throat right before the location that would make you throw up to touch. Works every time- even a man with chronic hiccups used it as his sure-fire way of getting rid of them. Also, hiccups are often psychological, so the less you worry about them, the quicker they'll leave. However, not curing them yourself tends to mean they'll be back later in teh day at least once. Don't ask me why.

Tropers/{{Zordauch}} stopped hiccuping shortly before his week-old daughter started up. The missus rolled her eyes and remarked that it was just like ''AzumangaDaioh''.

This troper used to be a subversion as a baby/toddler - she only got hiccups when she was cold, so all you needed to do to stop them was to put on another shirt on or wrap a blanket around her. She grew out of it, and nowadays she'll let the hiccups pass if she can't cure them in a few tries.

The next time you have the hiccups, trying holding one hand up and humming "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" under your breath. It's always worked for {{Midna}}.

Hold your nose and sing. While it does work (since it helps control your breathing), it is not advisable that you attempt it in public. You ''will'' look very silly.

I find jumping up and down while singing "The Star Spangled Banner" helps. Or sucking on a peppermint, if you don't want to look silly.

This troper can get very strong hiccups that can last for hours. The standard remedies almost never work. And one time when I had hiccups that others could feel *through the floor* , I tried drinking a big glass of water...and a hiccup resulted in me choking on the water as well as getting soaked by the rest. When it gets that bad, the only thing I can do is sleep it off.

Aversion: This Troper can't get the hiccups in the first place. I haven't hiccuped more than once in a row since I was five. Supposedly it's a pneumonia complication, but I think it's from psychological trauma. This one time I had hiccups for hours and holed myself away in my room, humiliated. Haven't had them in nine years.

There's no need for all these voodoo remedies. Just relax, control your breathing, and remind yourself that you control your body. It's rare to get hiccups you honestly cannot stop this way.

Hah! This trained singer disagrees (well, I agree with regards to the voodoo remedies; I've basically given up on all solutions). The above troper just hasn't ever had them badly.

This troper once attempted to cure hiccups by being held upside-down by his ankles by one friend and given a glass of water by another. It didn't work. This troper can, however, cure hiccups infallibly by holding his breath in such a way that it forces the diaphragm muscle flat.

If you get punched in the solar plexus, you ''will'' get rid of your hiccups. It's happened. Hurts like hell, yes, but it ''works''.

Hiccups are caused by a person's diaphragm (the muscle that controls breathing) twitching. Anything that shocks the diaphragm will usually set it right. Think about how a defibrillator stops the mistimed heart (Yes that is what it does instead of this pothole) by shocking it and letting its natural rhythm take over.

This troper finds that bending over and taking small sips of water from the other side of the glass stops her hiccups in no time. Of course, anything's better than having her giant of a step-father come up behind her and scream near her ears.

This troper's father swears by drinking half of a wide-mouthed bottle of flat Pepsi (carbonated pepsi, and I assume flat and carbonated Coke also work, but the carbonation increases the risk of throwing up out one's nose and mouth). It only fails to work on his sister (who refuses to drink more than two sips before stopping to take a breath), at which point a randomly timed Hiccup Scare works wonders (though sprays Pepsi all over the place). This troper prefers to simply slam the bottom of his fist into the center of his own collarbone, which is slightly less effective but much less painful than a punch to the solar plexus (the latter of which, if it fails, also makes the hiccups hurt that much worse).

{{This troper}} got the hiccups all the time when she was younger. But then when she was told of the spoonful of sugar cure, she started using it when ever she got the hiccups. It works (for her, anyway).

This troper found a sure way to cure the hiccups, you just have to press the point between your eyebrows for a couple of seconds and bingo!. It doesn't seem to be logical, but actually works.

This troper was introduced to a complicated but effective technique after most all of the above failed to work. Hold some water (or spit) in the back of your mouth just shy of swallowing, plug your ears, nose, AND close your eyes ''at the same time'', hold your breath and count to ten. You look like a dumbass for ten seconds, but it has never failed me.

This troper was taught a somewhat similar but easier method: swallow a mouthful of water, and then hold your breath while touching your toes and counting to ten. While it always works, this also makes you look like a moron for ten seconds. This troper theorizes that concentrating on doing all of the actions while worrying about looking stupid overloads her brain and causes it to forget about hiccuping.

Drink vinegar. This troper kids you not! It is possibly the most effective cure she has even used, and works a hundred percent of the time. You only need a little bit, and most of the time she don't even need to swallow any of it! It tastes pretty bad, but it always works. This troper would also like to recommend using malt vinegar, if possible. It seems to get the fewest complaints.

I once read in a magazine years ago that pinching your earlobes hard stops hiccups, so the next time I caught them, I tried it. It worked. It has worked every time since then.

MutantRancor here. I've tried quite a few of the "voodoo cures," including the drinking-upside-down one and the "scare them out" one, but I've found that the only thing that works for me is...laying down for a couple minutes. Even a punch to the solar plexus doesn't work. Then again, the only times I get hiccups are when my sinuses are draining and irritating my throat, and laying down is a proven cure for sinus-drainage-related problems because it changes the direction the sinuses are trying to drain.

For this troper, a swift self-inflicted blow to the diaphragm-region works wonders, but not 100% of the time, even with multiple blows.

Here's a way that works every time: remember that you are not a fish, but that you are a man. Punching is optional.

This troper's father would always tell her to put a metal spoon in her mouth and drink a glass of water at the same time. It always works, but I unfortunatly don't always carry a metal spoon with me.

This troper's Latin teacher once slammed her hand on a student's desk, and asked her loudly, "When was the last time you saw a white horse?!" managing to give the student quite a shock, but failing to cure her hiccups. According to her, it had worked every time except for that one.

This troper knows the true cure, which is something that all hiccup cures have in common: Simply focus on your hiccups. When you feel the next hiccup coming, focus on the muscles that moved when the last one happened. If you did it right, they should be gone in a matter of seconds. No need for violence, consumption, or arbitrary gestures. I read it online several years ago, and it has always worked when I tried it.

When I get hiccups, I find the best thing to do is carry on and not think about it.

I swear by swallowing anything carbonated, while standing on my head(or more usually dropping my head over the foot of the bed)

This troper tried this method, and it actually worked

Just hold your breath. It virtually always cures mine between the 4th to 10th hiccup.

@/{{Medinoc}} managed to scare a friend of his out of hiccup by using his newly-developed scare tactic: If you're not scary by yourself, just make the patient think there's something scarier than you! That includes grabbing your friend and gasping aloud / yelling "attention!" right before they try to cross the street.