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This is going to be a doozie of a question, but has anyone developed hiccups from their medication or their disease?  My husband has had to wake me up three times in the past month as I was dead asleep and woke him up with my hiccups.  I get up and walk around and drink some water and they easily go away, but this is really weird.  I know they are fairly strong as my body hurts once I wake up and realize that I had been hiccuping for awhile.  Thanks in advance for any insight (ha ha).  CathyHmmm...that's kinda strange.  I have no answers for you...but interested in what u find out.Justsaynoemore...are you sure they're hiccups? Maybe your not getting enough oxygen.  Are you taking anything for sleep or anxiety?  Benzodiazepines (xanax, valium, klonopin, librium, ativan, halcion, restoril, etc) can cause hiccups when they cause the diaphragm to relax (similar to the hiccups caused by drinking too much alcohol).

 

I get hiccups every time I get my infusion.  I will also wake up with them.  I do take one vicodin usually for pain, but I don't know that that is the cause. 

I get my infusions on Wed. and take MTX on Thursday...I will wake up Wed night and Thurs night with hiccups and then they go away.  I don't know if it is the combination or what...but it happens, and it is easily remedied. 

Jasmine - I am on klonipin for seizures, and flexeril for pain - I see my primary Wed and will mention what you suggested.  Thank you.  I called my rheumy last week and his nurse called back and said it wasn't from the medications, it was probably acid reflux and see my primary.  And my blood tests (it might be the urinalysis) always come back with the one for oxygen as being off just a bit off normal.  Thanks for the insights, I greatly appreciate it.  CathyI take xanax once in a while when stress makes my arrhythmia get extra-annoying.  It quiets the wacky heartbeats, but it often causes a run of hiccups.  My husband has a similar set of symptoms that kept both of us up at nights. We figured it was related to GERDS although no physician confirmed that.

He found relief through a combination of raising the head of his bed a few inches beyond what is recommended for GERDS, supporting his shoulders as well as his neck and head with a pillow when he is on his back and using a full-body pillow to cradle his abdomen and chest when on his side.

His gastroenterologist applauded his trial and error and told him that nocturnal hiccups are the result of the vagal irritated by any number of causes and supporting the chest/abdomen and thus the diaphragm reduces the incidence.

FWIW, HappI've noticed that I get hiccups frequently now since starting on oxycodone for pain.  I think JasmineRain has it right.

*hiccup... hiccup... HICCUP*

Hope you figure out what is causing it.

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