I, too, had this. Violent hiccups that also brought the worst heartburn I've ever had. The result was akin to ALMOST vomiting 50-100 times for 10 minutes. I did find, weirdly, that the Alka-seltzer anti- acid chewable tablets helped. Still had the hiccups, but it took some of the violent acid edge off.

Of course, with the Cisplatin, I wanted to throw those tablets up as well, but if I was careful and used one tablet approximately very hour, I could hang through the hiccups and hold down what little I could eat.

Your mileage may vary, but I did manage to walk a bit of a tightrope on this particular Cisplatin side-effect.

Good luck, hang in there and hang tough!

The Hellion



SCC Base of Tongue
Diagnosed 3/5/2014 T2N2C
PEG Installed 3/19/2014
Chemo/Rad 3/27/2014
1x Cisplatin, 4+ TaxoCarboplat + 33 * 70 gy
Chemo FINISHED 5/5/2014
Rads FINISHED
PEG tube removed 10/08/14
Back to work 4 Aug full time
1/19/15 - diagnosed mets to lungs
7/17/15 began Pembrolizumab clinical trial demitted October 2015
1/14/16 began Tremi-MEDI trial
-This far, no further! On ne passe pas!

**update** passed away 3/26/16 RIP, you will be missed by many