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Hi - any one have any helpful ideas for hiccups... i get them after i drink ..... it doesn't matter what the liquid is , but they hurt and they are loud - lol and a tad bit obnoxiuos....so i was wondering if anyone gets these and if so what helps ????

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I was wondering the same thing. I've always had bad hiccups, but now they really HURT. Like in the chest area. Hope someone can shed some light

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Hi - any one have any helpful ideas for hiccups... i get them after i drink ..... it doesn't matter what the liquid is , but they hurt and they are loud - lol and a tad bit obnoxiuos....so i was wondering if anyone gets these and if so what helps ????

I don't know how long you have been banded but I had these severe hiccups 3 days post-op...and I know that pain. I spoke with my PCP today during a checkup and he told me that there are nerves in your esophagus that also go to your diaphram and the nerves are telling your brain that you need air....that is why you hiccup! They are difficult and my episodes went away the next day...and I have not had any since! I wish I had a cure option for you but I just had to deal with them!!! Good luck:sad:

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I have a cure for the hiccups- Have someone drop their set of keys down your back under your shirt! don't know why but it works every time!:

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I get the hiccups after every meal that I am able to eat. They are very hard and loud as well. I just hold my breath for 10 seconds and they go away.

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I know this is an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone ever figured out a good solution for the hiccups here. Mine are spaced about 20 minutes apart - so the keys thing and holding my breath doesn't really help. They're so hard and painful, I'm afraid I'm going to slip my band.

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Mine eventually went away a few weeks after surgery. Don't get me wrong, I still get them on occasion, but no more than I did pre-band.

Unfortunately, I think that time will take care of it.

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Thanks! At least it's good to know that other folks have experienced this and that I'm not abnormal (well, at least not completely!) :biggrin:

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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