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Have someone hold your ears shut (or if you have in-ear headphones that seal up your ears, they do the trick -- it's a matter of really closing the ear canal off from the outside air) and slowly drink a glass of water.
Hugh has it; the ears have worked. Thanks you have saved me. Worst case in years but so far so good. Eeep. It is nice to not be hiccuping, much thanks and stuff.
Ahem. I mean, it works sometimes, and for some people it does work every time, which is great!
But some people get horrible bouts of hiccups that are all but impossible to shut down voluntarily. Last time, I was awakened by hiccups and continued to hiccup (sometimes rather painfully) for more than THREE HOURS. It sounds funny, but it ain't.
1/4 of a lemon. Place in a pony glass. Coat liberally with granulated sugar. The splash on Angostura Bitters, also liberally, but don't wash off the sugar.
Bite down on the lemon and suck on it. Suck all of the juice out.
It works every time. I think the combination of sweet/sour/bitter sort of shocks the system or somesuch. But I've never seen it fail. And I tended bar for many years.
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