A man in Lincoln who has been hiccuping for the last 18 months has finally had enough, it would seem. Having tried everything he can think of to cure them, from yoga to trying a hundred different ways to drink water, he’s now taken the decision to try something drastic: keyhole surgery.

Apparently he will first go through a procedure to test his stomach’s acid levels (delightful) before they decide to undergo keyhole surgery, but he reckons it may be the solution he has literally been gagging for. He reckons his problems stem from a faulty valve inside his stomach, causing all sorts of problems with acid reflux (even more delightful).

Someone who had the same problem as him took the same surgery he is planning on, and it didn’t solve it – it only cured his heartburn. So, a pretty big risk then. But if you had been hiccuping for 18 months, sometimes as often as every 2 seconds, and even in your sleep on occasion, wouldn’t you want to try anything and everything you could?

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