*hic*

[squeequeg]

I know everybody has a cure for hiccups. But does anyone know how to prevent them?

The reason is that I've been waking up in the middle of the night with a bad case of the hiccups. I can't tell if it's the hiccups that wake me up, or if I wake up slightly and then the hiccups start, but I do know that by the time I've gotten the hiccups to stop, I am well and truly awake.

I like my sleep, and I get little enough of it as it is. I'd rather not lose any more to something as stupid as hiccups.

Comments

[pantshead.livejournal.com]

Pure speculation here--perhaps you're sleeping in a different position? Or have you been having difficulty breathing (from, say, a cold) recently? Three things that give me hiccups are laughing too hard, drinking something carbonated, and eating a lot of dry bread--all things that disrupt my normal breath pattern. I don't get sleep hiccups, but if I sleep on my back, I've been known to stop breathing for long enough that I wake up, sit straight up in bed, and cough, hack, and splutter until I begin breathing again. Maybe some type of intermittent breath pattern is giving you the hiccups?

Wishing you more restful nights!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

That actually makes sense. I don't always breathe regularly when I sleep -- some of it's snoring, some of it's being a light sleeper -- and it would seem to make sense that there's enough of a disruption to cause hiccups, which then wake me up further. Thanks!