wow...15 years!
I want to kill myself if I have them for 15 minutes!

Read the article...it's 15 months...not 15 years!

The BBC article, that is (refrenced in FitSugar's post above).

I drink water upside down, as in lean over take a glass of water and drink it from opposite side of cup. works every time.

My science teacher in high school used to call us up to the front of the class if we had hiccups...and they went away in a flash...i suppose thats scaring them away!

Drink a teaspoon of vinegar! I get hiccups a lot, and my grandmother gave me that remedy when I was a kid. It always works immediately.

It also gave me a strange love of vinegar... My boyfriend complains whenever I make salad dressing.

"American Charles Osborne, of Anthon, Iowa, holds the record for the longest ever bout of hiccups, which lasted for 68 years from 1922 until 1990." CRAZY!

i take a huge deep breath and hold it for as long as i can. it works every time and needs no extra supplies to do.

I hate having hiccups. Mine get so strong they really hurt!

breathing into a paper bag is a rather odd suggestions i've heard for curing them.
I myself have had good luck with holding my breath. doesn't always work, but can help.

it does bring up the question of what hiccups are / how they get started to begin with though.

A spoonful of sugar!
I always thought it was utter crap until my fiance made me try. It's worked every time since then.... probably because you feel like you are going to suffocate while you try to swallow the sugar.

The only thing that works for me is eating a big spoonful of peanut butter. It works every time (as long as you use enough). The water, breath-holding, and sugar only work for me if I catch them quickly.

I have been a hiccup sufferer my whole life- since before I was born even! I get them really often. For me, they seem to be brought on by eating too fast, or talking and eating at the same time.

In case you don't know, a hiccup is a spasm of the muscle that controls breathing, the diaphragm. Located just below your lungs, the contraction & expansion of the diaphragm allows room for your lungs to take in and expel air.

I usually concentrate really hard on my breathing and will even hold my breath for a little while to get control over my diaphragm. My sister heard of one that worked for her, and I have also tried it to good result: Find a dot on an otherwise blank surface, stare at it, and count to 10 (mentally) while concentrating only on the dot. She used it to calm her hiccups when she came to meet my daughter for the first time in the hospital (didn't want to drop the baby!).

Holy crap that sucks! I get them a lot and hate the so much. Nothing ever works for me. I try to hold my breathe and then hicup and it HURTS. I've tried drinking water, I think ONE time it worked, when you hold your breath and gulp water while holding your breath. But last time I did that I hiccuped mid gulp and almost drowned haha

I take a deep breath, hold it for 10 seconds, then slowly....very slowly let it out. It usually cures the less serious cases of my hiccups, for the more severe cases, it may take several attempts for this to work.

I take 10 sips of water really quick without breathing in between. Usually works for me.

I'm casting another vote for the teaspoon of sugar. Sort of grind it around in your mouth and let it dissolve slowly. Works for me every time (which, thank goodness, isn't very often).

A tablespoon of peanut butter gulped down hard always always works

I used to be able to hold my breath and make it go away but that doesn't work for me anymore. Now I down a glass of water as quickly as possible without breathing (or until I run out of breath) and it works every time.

Caterpillargirl, my 9th grade english teacher used to do the same thing. If she heard anyone hiccup, she would ask if they wanted to get a drink of water, then make them prove they had hiccups. worked every time.

They use this at UCLA Medical Centers

Gag yourself. Literally stick your finger (or a tongue depressor) down your throat until you're gagging, but stop before you vomit. This resets the vagus nerve (spasming of the vagus nerve is what causes hiccups in the first place). This actually works--I've seen it several times, and have used it on myself. Heard it from my sister, a doctor who trained at UCLA, where she heard this trick.

Wow he must be in pain!

For me the drinking water upside down trick works, but it has to be quite a tall glass of water My boyfriend is always making fun of me when I hiccup...he says that I always look adorably surprised and indignant after each of them.

Since your brain is what tells you to hiccup, the idea is to get your mind off of it by drinking water out of the other side of the glass (this requires some concentration), and taking a sip of vinegar shocks your taste buds and gets your mind off of them too.
one trick that i've perfected is to just wait for the next hiccup, and it never comes!

Pinch both your earlobes and take slow, steady breaths.

drink from a glass of water that someone else is holding - always works for me.

also - that girl in the picture is a friend of mine!!

if i ignore them they go away...my dh will start asking me off the wall questions..and i've really got to think of the answers...for example..the last time i rode a pony? or the last time i had a orange soda? or the last time i saw a clown? silly, stupid questions, before i know it, they're gone.

For me it's not ignoring the hiccups or doing something else to take my mind off them. It's actually concentrating solely on the hiccups and my breathing. Because as one poster said, it's a muscle spasm and you just have to get your the diaphram back in sync

I'm going to second the spoonful of sugar theory...as I've done it and it works every time!

I get a humongous glass of water and drink the whole thing about as quickly as possible. It always works, but you have to drink a HUGE glass of water to make sure you are swallowing long enough to make your diaphragm stop spazzing.

I very rarely get hiccups, but when I do, I put a napkin over the top of a glass of water and then drink the water THROUGH the napkin. It ALWAYS works!! And I don't even have to drink the whole glass of water, just a few sips is usually enough to cure them.

Poor man, that is horrible and to have it for 15yrs! I hope doctors can figure something out for him.

I don't really do anything to "cure" hiccups; I just focus on something else, deep breathe and let it run it's course. Only lasts maybe 5-10 minutes. Nothing major.

I've heard drinking water upside down works! I get the hic ups a lot but they usually go away right away, thanks god!! I usually try and stretch my diaphragm out and hold my breath. Sometimes I drink loads of water but sometimes that makes em' worse...or i feel like puking! hahaha

P.S. The girl in the pictures hand does not look proportional to her face/body! hahaha they look like giant hands!

Stand on your head...it always works for me, however i'm not always in the most appropriate place to be doing a head-stand when i get hiccups (i.e. at work, out shopping, etc.)

a spoon full of sugar!! I have tried it on at least 20 people, and each time, the hiccups are cured instantly!

A slice of lemon with bitters! I'm a bartender and have used this with great sucess with my customers. Just douse the lemon in bitters and suck on it. It doesn't taste bad either and works like a charm!

I can't imagine having hiccups for that long! Sometimes if I go to bed with hiccups I get them again in the morning - so weird!

I also hold my breath and after a few attempts they are over. I can't imagine having them for a prolonged period of time.

A teaspoon of vinegar. Works every time.

i put a butterknife in a large glass of water, and drink the whole thing while balancing the handle-end of the knife against my forehead.

it works every time.

Drink a cup of water while trying to burp. If you can burp drink another sip right away and that usually helps me.

I'm another one who drinks water upside down. Works every single time.

drink water upside down and then slowly let your breath out - it works!

i'm a firm believer in the hold your breath while drinking something. this always works for me, but it's a problem when you have nothing around to drink...