Hiccoughs

I decided to do my next few posts in themes to catch up what's been happening in the past couple years. It makes more sense than chronological because it goes back and forth. This post's theme is hiccoughs.

They first started a couple months after Rohan and I got married. So I guess that means it's been over a year and a half. But these aren't normal hiccoughs. They happen between 1-4 times per episode and at my worst I was having episodes multiple times an hour.

My doctor kept dismissing them and didn't really understand that it was actually a problem affecting my life. (Granted I never did hiccough in front of her or any medical professional except when I was at the hospital a couple months ago but that's another post.) She was just focusing on my other health issues that were also coming to light. I went in for my hiccoughs and insomnia but the blood work showed more to it than those.

It wasn't until I took matters into my own hands and wrote down when I was having hiccough episodes and how frequently that she actually listened to me. I think my worst was 30 episodes which was about 50 hiccoughs in one day! There was no rhyme or reason. I wrote down when I ate and slept and they had no correlation. They seemed completely random.

She realised that they might be something and I went to an imaging centre to get a CT scan and ultrasound of my chest. They found absolutely nothing wrong. Everything looked normal. That was toward the end of last year and now I'm at a dead end. I still have hiccoughs, although the severity seems to constantly change. Some days I get to the evening, hiccough, and realise that was my first one all day. A lot of my friends think it's hilarious. It drives me crazy! Rohan generally just ignores them but sometimes reminds me that I'm loved because he knows how depressed they make me.

I have tried to look up reasons but I can't find anything online. I have changed doctors and my new one said it could be a symptom of kidney disease, but we haven't looked into that yet. I've had more pressing issues that we're working on figuring out.