hiccups after cortisone shots

this happens to me as well everytime a get a cortizone shot. i have had them up to 13 days before day and night. it is horrible and i get them in multiple quantities at a time. sometimes i loose my breath

Thank you so much for this thread!! My husband got hiccups after taking dexamethasone oral pills two days in a row. His hiccups weren't going on too long before I found this thread. We tried tums, apple cider vinegar, and q-tips up the nose but nothing worked. I gave him a large tablespoon of peanut butter followed by a sip of ice cold water and they've been gone for twenty minutes! Fingers crossed it lasts.

Force yourself to throw up. I literally have tried it 3x times today and they stopped instantly. I just stuck my finger down my throat and threw up flem and the hiccups stopped for a few hours. They came back and I did it again and it worked again. They came back a few hours later, after I was able to finally get to sleep and I forced myself to throw up again and they stopped instantly.

So glad I found this thread. Yes VINEGAR works. I had a cervical epidural this morning and starting hiccups like crazy a while ago. Not to mention the Insomina. It's 6:00 am now and I haven't slept. Glad I am not working.

This works...put two Q-tips up your nose...pretty far and lightly twizzle them...give it a few minutes. Voila (for me)!!! Instant cure. Seems to short circuit the vegas nerve short circuit caused by the steroid. I may not be describing this right but it was a miracle because I was hicupping every minute like a punch in the abdomen for a day and a half. Found this as credited to a :country Doctor". Thorzine? They don't make doctors like they used to.

Q-tips saved my night! Just like others have said, one in each nostril, fairly far up there, twirl them around. I didn't sneeze but the hiccups stoped instanlty

Q-Tips worked for my husband, who had an injection yesterday and couldn't stop burping today. Thank you, people!!

I actually think it does have something to do with acid reflux. I drank pepto and it went away. The hiccups have been coming and going all day and it's very abrupt. I haven't had the hiccups since I was a kid so I know it's from the cortisone shots I got yesterday.

No they are god damn hicups.....wtf

I develop hiccups everytime i have an anti allergy shot. The only medicine that perfectly takes it away is the 'Chlorpromazine' The only thing about it is that it relaxes your nervous system to the extent that you fall asleep for so many hours

I develop hiccups everytime i have an anti allergy shot. The only medicine that perfectly takes it away is the 'Chlorpromazine' The only thing about it is that it relaxes your nervous system to the extent that you fall asleep for so many hours

Its not a side effect its consideref an adverse reaction according to science daily

I get them every time I receive a cortisone shot as well. And when I do get them I'll take a flexeril (muscle relaxer) before bed and they are gone by morning. I believe the cortisone causes the muscle that makes you hiccup to spasm. If you're prone to getting them from cortisone ask your doctor to give you some flexeril. It's the only thing that works for me

For me, the hiccups start early the day after the epidural and, if not treated, last about two days. I have gotten some effect by holding my breath while plugging both ears with my finger tips. When I mentioned it to the doctor, he gave me pills to take three times a day while the hiccups persist. They are very effective, but you wouldn't want to take them more frequently than necessary: they are Chlorpromazine.

I got the same thing from my doctor