Help, Help, Hiccups

[spiritfilled79]

Please we need an answer, My husband continues to hiccup day after day after day, month after month and no one can tell us what to do. He's been to numerous doctors and has lost over fifty pounds because he can't keep food down. He's dizzy and weak most of the time and has to stay in bed. He's been hospitalized over eight times since December 2007 but now when we go to the hospital they inform us they just don't know what to do because he's had MRI's, CAT scans, blood test, and ultrasounds and they all come back normal. How can some one be normal and have all these symptoms. He also went to Cleveland Clinic and they did a phrenic never block and his hiccups came back. WE NEED HELP. He's to weak to get out of bed most days.

[lakinlady]

A while ago I saw an episode on the Discovery channel or one of those science channels, regarding a patient with uncontrollable hiccups that wouldn't stop for weeks or months and none of the doctors could stop it.  At the end, the cure was to apply pressure right between the eyebrows.  So take your thumb and index finger and pinch about a half inch above the bridge of the nose and see what happens.  I tried it only once and even though I wasn't hiccuping very long, a few minutes, it worked for me.

Good luck
lakinlady

[selmaS]

I recently have had issues with hiccups.......I was told it had to do with my hiatal hernia.
did ur husband have an upper GI?.....gerd is also a player in all of this.....I do not know if this is what is causeing ur husbands issues, but worth a look into.

Good luck
Godspeed
"selma"

[Carol in PA]

Hiccups are the result of muscle spasms of the diaphragm and will disappear on taking magnesium.
Source:  http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/magnesium.htm

You can google for many references to this.
Wishing you the best,
Carol