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Hiccups. Genuinely, hiccups

Started 11 September 2025 · 11 replies · 91 hearts · read 1.5k times

VivLuton, UK · 11 September 2025
10 months ago

Hiccups. Genuinely, hiccups — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#1

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#2

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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OsipTbilisi, GE
#4

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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NilsUppsala, SE
#5

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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MaudGhent, BE
#6

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#7

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#8

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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PersisBristol, UK
#9

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#10

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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NanNeath, UK
#11

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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