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Posted on 02/23/2007 5:18:32 PM PST by Cagey
Doctors Stumped Over Mee's Condition
A 15-year-old girl who has been hiccupping nonstop for nearly four weeks said people suggesting she is faking the condition are ignorant, according to a Local 6 News report.
Jennifer Mee has had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI since the fits started. Drugs haven't worked. Neither has holding her breath, putting sugar under her tongue, sipping pickle juice, breathing into a paper bag nor standing upside down.
Doctors have reportedly said she is not faking it but are stumped by the contractions.
"Tonight, she is sending a message to anyone who doubts these hiccups are the real deal," Local 6's Jacqueline London said.
"They are ignorant, very ignorant because I'm not faking it," Mee said. "It is real. If I was faking it, I would have stopped four weeks ago."
Mee said the national attention has been nice, but she has still tried every remedy offered to stop the hiccupping.
Mee has been hiccupping about 50 times a minute since January.
There was a story a few years ago about a man who had been "hiccupping" for 74 years, IIRC.
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"stumped " no such word 
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Man Has Been Hiccuping For 44 years
News Observer: Man has been hiccuping for 44 years
John Francis Crosland has been hiccuping for more than 40 years. Every day since John F. Kennedy was first in office as president, Crosland has gulped or gasped or had that catch in his throat.
"I just hiccup all the time. A lot of times I be doing something and hiccuping, and I don't pay them no attention," he said. "If you want to know the truth, it don't too much matter. It worries other people more than it worries me."
Crosland, who is 68, could be on his way to having the world's longest case of continuing hiccups.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists an Iowa man, Charles Osborne, as having them the longest: 69 years. Osborne was slaughtering a hog in 1922 when he first began hiccuping, and he is said to have hiccuped at the rate of 40 times a minute until February 1990. He died a year later.
First you said 74 years and now I read it's a mere 44 years. 44 years is nothing.
LOL
That must be very tiring, and just imagine living like that.
I feel for this girl.
Well you wouldn't be able to have a normal life, would you? It must be tiring to her family too. I hope they can come up with something for this girl soon.
I have no link, but I heard on ABC Radio news that she stopped hiccuping today. Perhaps I should have posted this in "Breaking News".
Yonder's a link to the cure story: http://www.wrcbtv.com/news/index.cfm?sid=6595
Margaret Mitchell’s husband John Marsh had a severe case of hiccups that weakened his heart.
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