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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.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

I am not looking for reassurance particularly. I am looking for somebody to say either that they had exactly this, or that they did not, because both would help.

Sorry to be graphic. If anybody has had this, I would rather hear it plainly than politely.

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#1

What helped me was writing down the time of day it happened. The pattern was completely invisible to me until it was on paper, and then it was obvious.

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BrammyBelfast, NI
#2

To the opening post rather than to the thread: Viv, this is my version of it.

Two things that helped, neither of them clever: smaller amounts more often, and drinking considerably more than felt necessary.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

Thank you all. Somebody arriving embarrassed and being answered without a trace of it is the whole reason this circle is worded the way it is, and it takes everybody to keep it that way.

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OsipTbilisi, GE
#4

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week — not because it is definitely something, but because it is much easier to rule out than to sit with.

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NilsUppsala, SE
#5

Brammy said something I want to sit with for a second.

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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MaudGhent, BE
#6

No advice, just company. Here if it helps.

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BrimHalifax, UK
#7

Mine got worse before it got better, which I wish somebody had told me. About ten days of worse, then a fortnight of gradually less, then nothing.

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#8

I want to offer the boring outcome for balance: mine was mild, it lasted a month, and it went. Not every account here needs to be dramatic.

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PersisBristol, UK
#9

Here, reading, and glad you posted.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#10

I am going to gently push back on the drift towards reassurance. The person who asked described something specific and deserves an accurate answer rather than a comfortable one.

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NanNeath, UK
#11

Something I only worked out late: two mild things at once felt much worse than either would have on its own, and I kept trying to find a single cause.

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