Does anyone else hiccup when they drink fizzy drinks?

[ivarei]

All my life, I've always hiccuped once after the first gulp of carbonated drink. When I drink seltzer water I'll sometimes get a full blown case of the hiccups. So I usually only sip sodas. Does this happen to anyone else? I thought it was normal but then last night my boyfriend started laughing at me when I explained why I was drinking seltzer so slowly and said I must have some sort of timing mechanism because he's never heard if it happening to anyone else. So I'm curious to find out if I'm some sort of anomaly.

Yes it usually happens to me

No, it doesn't happen to me or anyone else I know; you're weird

Other, you should do something else to your hair.

Updates

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i don't know why my auto correct added the "do something else with your hair" to the final option. I asked a question about my hair earlier this month and my computer is stuck on it apparently.

[rachiee]

How quickly are you drinking it? When you drink/eat too fast your body doesn't get enough air since there's only one pipe from your mouth to your stomach/windpipe. Basically whatever you consume has to share the same tube as your air does. Since you need to continuously switch from swallowing to breathing, the faster you eat/drink the harder that is to do. The hiccups are just your bodies response to not getting enough air. The hiccup forces oxygen to be breathed in. Its sort of its own way of gasping for air. If you drink at a normal speed and you still get hiccups, then chances are your bodies reflexes are just slower when it comes to switching from swallowing to breathing. I'd say you're fine as long as you keep aware of it.

[ivarei]

it's just one normal sized swallow, for lack of a better word lol. I don't chug carbonated drinks ever.

[rachiee]

Then it sounds like your timing is off in your body.

[candlewax]

You get hiccups because the phrenic nerve, which is the nerve that's attached to the diaphragm and sends the signal to help you breathe, gets an interruption in the signal. It causes those contractions that cause hiccups. They eventually go away because the signal finally returns to normal.

That said, maybe something is going on between ingesting the fizzy drinks and that signal...?

[Shameneyes]

I haven't hiccuped in years lol but it seems to happen to my friend quite a bit and yes, mainly after drinking carbonated beverages ^^

[AltTech]

Yes, that happens to me all the time! Always ONE hiccup after the first gulp.

And I get the hiccups after about 5 or 6 drinks at the bar. The really bad ones that tell you your night is over. haha.

[ivarei]

haha, I'm glad I'm not alone.

[sfauo]

Happens to my father, didn't know it happened to anyone else. Every time he grabs his cup of soda, hiccup right on cue.

[Kain6th]

I don't think that's happened. then again it's been forever since I've drunken one of those so it could be that I just don't remember. :-\