Suggest Remedies For Persistent Hiccups After Taking A Fluoroscopy-guided Cortisone Injection

Posted on Sun, 11 Mar 2018

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Question : I had a flouroscope cortsisone injection into my hip 6 days ago. Twenty four hours later I started hicupping six days later they have not stopped. What are the remidies?

Answered by Dr. Ivo Ditah (44 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
I will encourage you to continue valium and let this effect wear off!

Detailed Answer:

Hi,

Steroids predispose to hiccups as the nerves become easily excitable. It will certainly wear off as more time passes and the concentration drops. We can only suppress this with valium at this time. I encourage you to do so and consider stopping valium a week from today by tapering off the dosage progressively.

Hope I have answered your query.

I wish you well.

Regards,
Dr. Ivo Ditah, Internal Medicine Specialist

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