68 Years of Hiccups

[kirupa]

Hey everyone,
Check this out:
Charles Osborne (1894–1991) of Anthon, Iowa, USA, started hiccupping in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog before slaughtering it. He was unable to find a cure, and continued hiccupping until February 1990, a total of 68 years!

Osborne led a normal life in which he had two wives and fathered eight children. The only discomfort from his hiccuping, he claimed, was the constant risk of losing his false teeth!

During the first few decades, he hiccupped up to 40 times a minute, slowing to 20 a minute in later years. He finally stopped in 1990 – after an estimated 430 million spasms – and died the following year.http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=48509

I had the hiccups for a few minutes last week, and I thought that was bad :P

Cheers!
Kirupa :huh:

[Yeldarb]

Wow, sheds a good light on Iowa -- farmer weighing a hog, typical ;)

I had heard about this before but never knew the guy was in my home state hehe. That would suck pretty bad, but it could be a good conversation piece! lol.

[DariusMonsef]

40 times a minute? That's like breathing?

I can't image living a normal life with that? You couldn't finish a sentence without hiccuping 4 times during it.

[Alex]

eh, that doesnt seem like a fun way to live.

"Hi :Hiccup: how :Hiccup: is :Hiccup: It :Hiccup: going?:Hiccup:

:P

[reverendflash]

If he kept hicupping, he may still be alive.

See, it is all a quality of life issue...

:D

[wizard]

I think I would've tried to kill myself after the first year.

[3d Nirvana]

that happened to me once.....

[wizard]

that happened to me once.....Yeah? You hiccupped for 68 years? :stunned:

[brownie]

or tried to kill yourself

[3d Nirvana]

lol I was talking about hiccups :)

*i dindn't actually hiccup for that long*

[RadioactveChimp]

why didn't they do surgery on his diaphram lol

[The_Vulcan]

When I get hiccups I can cure myself in about 20 seconds flat....

Has worked everytime perfect since i figured it out 15 or so years ago.... :P

[andr.in]

When I get hiccups I can cure myself in about 20 seconds flat....

Has worked everytime perfect since i figured it out 15 or so years ago.... :P care to share?

I saw that on tv once... I wonder what the total number of his hiccups would be :sure:

[RabBell]

hiccup cure, guaranteed everytime to work

when your hiccuping, get a glass of water. Just after a hiccup, take a moutful of water but hold it in your mouth and hold your breath at the same time, for as long as you can. Then when you can't hold your breath any longer breath out and swallow the water at the same time. That should do it. If it doesn't...do the same thing but try jumping up and down on the spot while holding your breath and the water in your mouth.

Guaranteed to work everytime :thumb:

[blabj]

My cure, that has never failed, hold your breath, and make your stomach kinda push up, like you are hurling but not :) and hold your breath for as long as possible and push and it should go :D

[The_Vulcan]

Mine is.

Take a big breath, close your mouth, then swallow

then without exhaling take another breath close your mouth and swallow.

Keep doing this for as long as you can, it becomes harder to swallow each time, after 3 times it becomes almost imposible to swallow..... and you just want to let it all out.

[andr.in]

breath out and swallow the water at the same time how the hell is it possible to breathe out and swallow at the same time ? :h:

[RabBell]

how the hell is it possible to breathe out and swallow at the same time ? :h:


ok then, in the process of breathing out, pause, swallow and then continue breathing out

[andr.in]

ok then, in the process of breathing out, pause, swallow and then continue breathing out ok that sounds better ;)

[kirupa]

I simply drink a lot of water while holding my nose closed :ear:

[evolution]

I just watch one of these movie, and it usually does it for me;) Movie (http://www.k-fee.com/v3/index_to.html)

[senocular]

reminds me of that episode of the simpsons where they had the guy who had been hicupping for like 12 years or so and he looked like a wreck... it went something along the lines of

:hiccup: "kill me" :hiccup: "kill me" :hiccup: ... :P

[mdipi]

hiccup cure, guaranteed everytime to work

when your hiccuping, get a glass of water. Just after a hiccup, take a moutful of water but hold it in your mouth and hold your breath at the same time, for as long as you can. Then when you can't hold your breath any longer breath out and swallow the water at the same time. That should do it. If it doesn't...do the same thing but try jumping up and down on the spot while holding your breath and the water in your mouth.

Guaranteed to work everytime :thumb:


Wanna put money on that guarantee? I just hold my breath or do something to keep my mind off it and it usually does the trick.

[l0stpr0fet]

yea i think sometimes hiccups (for me) are almost a psychological thing. if i hold my breath and concentrate solely on holding my breath (almost meditation style), and exhale and take another deep breath and keep concentrating, my hiccups go away within 2 minutes.

Also i think sometimes swallowing water as you hiccup reverses the hiccup effect and stops it, not sure though.... ;)


LP