I had the hiccups last night. I don't know what brought them on. My stomach was just about empty. I usually only have a couple, but these just kept going. My usual home remedy (holding my breath while drinking water) didn't work. I looked in a medical book for a solution, and one of them it recommended was inducing vomiting. Needless to say, I wasn't going to try that.


The last time I puked (almost 30 years ago), I retched twice beforehand and thought it felt like hiccups. So since then hiccups have made me think of puking. Silly?


I don't know how long the hiccups lasted. The sleeping pill I took before I got hiccups kicked in. When I woke up, the hiccups were gone and my light was on and that medical book was open to the page about hiccups.