When you burp, your stomach contracts and your esophagus relaxes, allowing air to expel. When you hiccup, your diaphragm contracts, and your esophagus closes up. I dunno. Kinda. I’m mock-hiccupping and burping as I type this and that seems to be what’s going on.
When all three contract, everything jams up, and that hurts.
Cool story time: Sometimes I hiccup really hard and it’s kind of painful. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
My hiccups always hurt. Why does my body have an internal fist it can use to repeatedly punch me in the stomach?
You know what you did
I think your diaphragm is more like a fist punching you in the lower lungs.
Best answer, thank you!
I’m guessing that’s because they’re forcefully pushing air in opposite directions.
Coming up next week, sneeze-fart.
Or in worse case scenario: SS Sneezeshart
Speak for yourself- hiccups are painful for me
just wanted to mention there’s now a special straw that cures hiccups for us, called hiccaway.
Sounds like snake oil. Their website says you need to sip water through their straw for 3 seconds two/three times, then repeat those 3 sips up to 2 more times so that puts the effectiveness at somewhere around that of pretty much any other free home remedy. The way those instructions are written seems like it’s meant to intentionally obfuscate that fact too, it’s incredibly unnatural to say “do this thing two to three times, up to three times”.
I’m pretty sure that the act of simply drinking something is a known remedy for hiccups. So I guess drinking through that straw does work, it’s just not because of the straw
Does happen regularly for you? I can’t tell you if I’ve ever burped and hiccuped at the same time
Not a lot , but it’s happened a few times.
Ok, good. If it was a regular thing, I was gonna recommend going to see a gastroenterologist, but obviously, I have no real idea of why it hurts when both happens at the same time
How come the ground doesn’t normally hurt when I touch it and if I stumble it doesn’t hurt, but it hurts when I stumble and hit the ground?
