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CASE REPORT
Hypnotic hiccups
  1. Robert Daniel Vorona1,
  2. Mariana Szklo-Coxe2,
  3. James Catesby Ware1
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  2. 2Department of Community and Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  1. Correspondence to Professor Robert Daniel Vorona, voronard{at}evms.edu

Summary

Our patient presented with repetitive, self-limited bouts of forceful hiccups in sleep. Eszopiclone, a commonly prescribed hypnotic, appeared to cause these intermittent hiccups. This case is a reminder that eszopiclone may cause this adverse effect, and that it may be the bed partner and not the patient who furnishes critical sleep medicine history.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-202365

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