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Fla. Woman Has Hiccupped For 8 Months; Sound Is Like Loud Scream

POSTED: Thursday, March 1, 2007
UPDATED: 9:20 am EST March 1, 2007

A Florida woman said she feels like a freak show because of her unexplained condition -- a case of the never-ending hiccups, according to a report.

A 15-year-old St. Petersburg girl, Jennifer Mee, said she started hiccupping last month, hiccupping close to 50 times a minute. The hiccups finally stopped for Mee after more than five weeks of spasms.

Now, as strange as it seems, WJXT-TV found out the teen is not alone in her hiccups. Jacksonville's Jaime Molisee said she's tried everything but hasn't been able to stop hiccupping for eight months.

"They come on just the spur of the moment," Molisee said.

She said in June 2006 she started hiccupping and that over time the hiccups have gotten progressively worse.

"This is very loud. It used to be just regular hiccups," Molisee said.

Her hiccups are currently anything but regular, sounding like an abrupt scream. The hiccups are so loud they can be heard from outside of Molisee's door.

Molisee said she's practically a shut-in as a result of her incessant hiccupping and how people react to her in public.

"I could hear people in next aisle laughing at me. When I went over, they continued to laugh. It's like I wasn't human anymore," Molisee said.

Hiccupping is not her only problem. She said her right arm shakes, and that doctors think the two could be related.

Molisee is out of work, collecting disability and hoping doctors can find a cure, WJXT-TV reported.

"Until you've watched a loved one go through any type of disability, you won't understand the true meaning of it," she said.

Molisee said she has seen eight doctors about her problem, but no one has been able to diagnose what is causing the constant hiccups.

"I am seeing a neurologist and he's doing as many studies as he can. He has gone into the fact that there is a surgery they can do in regards to stimulating the nerves that he hopes may help, but he wants to rule out everything else," Molisee said.

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