Can you have the hiccups while you are sleeping?

Answer 1

Yes you can.

Hiccups are uncontrolled spasms of your diaphragm between normal breaths. The diaphragm is the dome shaped muscle under your rib cage. Normally, your diaphragm helps to pull air into your lungs by pulling downwards as you breathe in. And when you breathe out, your diaphragm pushes upwards.


Your diaphragm contracts and pulls down between your normal breaths, sucking air in Immediately after this, the top of the windpipe (trachea) closes briefly, to stop more air getting in. This makes the ‘hic’ sound

Doctors still don’t know for sure what causes the diaphragm to go into spasm. Some experts theorize it’s from eating too fast, gulping air, emotional tension, or poor breathing habits.

Think you’ve had a bad case of hiccups? Charles Osborne of Anthon, Iowa, started hiccupping in 1922 and hiccupped for the next 65 years. That’s approximately 430 million hiccups! Too bad the Internet wasn’t around for Mr. Osborne.

Answer 2

Yes you can.Persistence of hiccups during sleep suggests an organic cause, but conversely if a patient is unable to sleep or if the hiccups stop during sleep and recur promptly on awakening, this suggests a mental, emotional or unknown cause.

Answer 3

When they had me knocked out in the hospital they said I got the hiccups and I snored some (not at the same time).

Answer 4

a hiccup is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm, so it can happen at any time. even if you are sleeping, though you'd probably wake up.

Answer 5

normally it's a bad habit when u sleep with an opened mouth,as the hiccup is always from the throat.i don't have it luckily.

Answer 6

No. They wake you up.