Over the weekend, I had bouts of the hiccups for one to two hours at a time with maybe 30 minute intervals of no hiccups in between. Nothing would stop them. I have never had anything like this happen before. Last night, I found an internet home remedy that seemed to stop them and they haven't started up again yet this morning.
It is bizarre. Anybody else been through something like this?
What was the internet remedy?
I have occasional bouts of hiccups that last hours. Sometimes I will go to bed with hiccups only to wake up the next morning and start hiccuping all over again. I have tried every remedy known to man. The cure that works for me now is to hold my breath, swallow, inhale some more while holding my breath, swallow, repeat until I can get no more air in my lungs.
I am not ready to vouch for it completely yet, but it finally stopped them so I could go to sleep last night.
In reply to spriteracer:
That sounds like what I did.
That's it. Same place I found it too.
My girlfriend has a hiccup cure that works for her 100% of the time, and it drives her nuts because it makes no sense that it should make any difference.
She has to plug both ears while someone else gives her a sip of something to drink (usually water). Done.
I don't have particular cure for myself. IIRC, I usually try either holding my breath for a bit and making sure to exhale completely while breathing normally for a while. I have it in my head that hiccups may be a reaction to not taking in enough oxygen, but I'm really not sure.
Between my girlfriend's cure and the one you linked, I suspect there may also be something to the notion of just distracting oneself and disrupting whatever state was going on before.
I discovered a cure for the hiccups several years back and it works for everyone who has tried it.
1) Get a non-carbonated beverage.
2) Sip beverage and hold some on your tongue - make a spoon shape out of your tongue.
3) Breathe slowly and deeply through your mouth while holding the liquid on your tongue.
4) Profit?
Glad they are gone, but try this if they come back! 
The one I've always used is the teasespoon of sugar dissolving in your mouth. Body focus's on breaking down simple sugars.
SEX!
SEX is the cure for hiccups. Have you ever heard of anyone hiccuping uncontrollably during Sex? I rest my case.
Sugar didn't work. Honey didn't work.
Had no luck with carguy's idea.
Otto Maddox wrote: Sugar didn't work. Honey didn't work. Had no luck with carguy's idea.
I think carguy's idea only works if someone else is also there.
DILYSI Dave wrote:Otto Maddox wrote: Sugar didn't work. Honey didn't work. Had no luck with carguy's idea.I think carguy's idea only works if someone else is also there.
Another person would be a prerequisite.
I've found sex cures just about anything that ails you from hangnails to depression.
While the cure might only be temporary you have to "rinse & repeat" as often as is needed. That's the secret!
And I wasn't just being a smartypants and throwing out a glib answer. I've actually found it works on the hiccups. But neither one of us has actually had the exact symptoms the OP had, just hiccups for a long period of time. Once we get them stop usually they stay stopped.
In reply to carguy123:
It is good for whatever ails you, I've always said. If only women could understand this a little better.
See, this is where the confusion starts. For men, SEX fixes whatever ails you. For women it does not. 
Oh hiccups...such a nuisance and an embarrassing thing at that! Coming from a nurse's standpoint, there really isn't anything that I have see or some across yet that does the trick, although I have heard of a few remedies...
1) From an Indian man and his wife: "drink seven small drops of water in one breath". I guess it's an old-country trick.
2) From my aunt, a school teacher: "lightly place your hands around the hiccuper's neck from behind (aka, choking someone from behind, but lightly) and slowly lift up against the adams apple. I guess it works when she does it for her students.
3) From an obese man who swears by this: "plug your nose and close your mouth, and when you feel the hiccup coming blow out against them both (mouth and nose).
4) Medical intervention: Haldol, an anti-psychotic and sedative...Reglan, a gastrointestinal stimulant...or Thorazine, an anti-psychotic with strong sedative effects. I've only given Thorazine a few times, and it essentially knocks you out, and the people have woken up with hiccups still, so you decide on that one...
It's hard to find the one thing that will help your hiccups individually, as a hiccup is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm-a muscle that helps with breathing. If you seem to have them persistently, though, you might have an underlying cause to them. But usually its just something stupid and random 
I'd definitively recommend the sex first though, or an assisted derivative thereof haha 
I can't see pictures or go to links at work, but I haven't seen my fool proof method mentioned yet.
Drink water from the far side of a cup. To do that, take a cup and fill with water. Hold out in front of you. Start leaning over until you can put your mouth of the far side of the cup and take several sips. You are basically drinking upside down. It's NEVER failed me. I can now do it from a fountain. I have had people who will refuse to try this, I guess thinking I'm going to post them on the interwebs or something.
EastCoastMojo wrote: See, this is where the confusion starts. For men, SEX fixes whatever ails you. For women it does not.
It's my wife who has the hiccups the most and the one that sex fixes it. I've had them a couple of times, and sex WORKED!, but for some reason she has them more often.
Maybe she's trying to tell me something!?
EastCoastMojo wrote: See, this is where the confusion starts. For men, SEX fixes whatever ails you. For women it does not.
I dunno...Seems to work in my household ;)
Joey
I must be doing it wrong. 
One time I had the hiccups for a few hours and couldn't get them to stop. Then I sneezed and they never came back.
EastCoastMojo wrote: I must be doing it wrong.
Im not saying anything!
Joey
I am used to it.
spitfirebill wrote: I can't see pictures or go to links at work, but I haven't seen my fool proof method mentioned yet. Drink water from the far side of a cup. To do that, take a cup and fill with water. Hold out in front of you. Start leaning over until you can put your mouth of the far side of the cup and take several sips. You are basically drinking upside down. It's NEVER failed me. I can now do it from a fountain. I have had people who will refuse to try this, I guess thinking I'm going to post them on the interwebs or something.
When i do this, the water just comes out of my nose...
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