Hiccups

4/24/09

Jim has had the hiccups for almost 3 hours. This happened last time when he had chemo. Hiccups are seldom listed as a side-effect but many patients complain about them especially with the platinum based drugs. Actually they are probably caused by the dexamethasone that he takes 2 days before and 2 days after the chemo.

Last time (2003) I was computer illiterate and didn't check Google for solutions. I just did that; he tried the old sugar remedy--HI has sugar packets in the room--and voila! Hiccups gone! We'll be taking sugar packets on the plane tomorrow.

Do any of you have other solutions should that fail?

And fail it did. When he lay down to sleep the hiccups returned in full force. The sugar didn't help this time. In about an hour they went away.