Woman Has Chronic Hiccups For 4 Years

[dawnmpeters]

It's been more than 2½ years since Jaime Molisee, a Florida woman with the case of seemingly endless hiccups, first made news, reported WJXT-TV in Jacksonville.

So what ever happened to her?

Molisee suffered from what she described as debilitating and relentless hiccups. She couldn't stop her hiccups, and every time WJXT visited her, it seemed to get worse.

And today, Molisee is still at it.

"Four years this month," she said as she hiccuped. "It's very painful."

Molisee said the hiccuping gives her headaches and chest pain. She takes medication, but nothing seems to cure it.

Doctors remain puzzled.

"They're still not sure what's causing it," Molisee said.

She said it has gotten a little better since the last time WJXT talked to her.

"It's gotten to the point where they'll come on for a couple weeks and then they'll go away," Molisee said.

But she said they always come back, though she's not letting the hiccups stop her from living her life.

Molisee said she's getting married in three weeks to her fiance Ryan Tucker, and the two just bought a house.

Her soon-to-be husband said he has no problem with her hiccups. He's used to them.

http://www.wyff4.com/health/21180819/detail.html

[RaVen Blackehart]

Every time i get hiccups I worry that something like that is going to happen.

So what was the longest hiccup fit in the world?

The biggest cause of hiccups is eating to fast.

Back in 1922 Charles Osborne of Iowa must have done just that, because he got a case of the hiccups. Actually his hiccups started while he was weighing a hog.

This was no ordinary case, it was a world record hiccup fit, it lasted 68 years up until they mysteriously stopped in 1990, hiccupping an estimated 430 million times. He died 1 year after his hiccups stopped.

In the early years Charles Osborne hiccupped up to 40 times a minute, which in the later years slowed to 20 times.

Charles Osborne, however, did manage a somewhat ordinary life, he was married twice and had 8 children.

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststu...om/long44.html

[dawnmpeters]

WOW!!!!!!!!! Thanks Raven!

[WinterStar]

Wow

I hiccup almost every day, if not every day, at least once a day.
Usually more. It's been happening for the past 3 months.

I don't hiccup nearly as many times as these people though so it doesn't bother me much at all.

[sheevaa]

I get hiccups a lot too. If I have them for more than a half an hour I start relating with that one simpsons scene. "Hic, Kill me! Hic, kill me!"

Can't imagine having them for years *shudders*