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A member asked:

Are hiccups bad if you just got your tonsils out?

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Dr. Philip Miller answered

No: Will not affect the surgery.

Answered 9/16/2014

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I was drinking soda and hiccuped before I could swallow and it all came down I'm nervous I inhaled a mouth full of soda will I be okay?

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Had multiple teeth extracted under IV sedation and Decadron. Been hiccuping for 48 hours straight, almost. The pain in my chest and neck from hiccuping is worse than the pain in my mouth. Can't sleep. What is happening to me??

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For a few years, flavors of dip like wg/mint and after use cause pressure like pain in back of the throat and radiates into my mouth, slowly it worsens until feeling like I need to burp or vomit, ends with hiccup & repeats. What is it ?

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Easily worn out, fatigued, always just feel not well, not necessarily sick just not healthy. I have bad tonsils, could my symptoms be related?

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I have a very deeply hole behind my right tonsil. It just appeared last night and it hurts extremely bad. And the side of my neck it's on is swollen.

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