Abstract
Setting: Tertiary care hospital. Patients: 2 cases of persistent hiccups after lumbar epidural steroid injections. Case Descriptions: A 46-year-old man complained of low back pain (LBP) with radiation into both lower extremities, and numbness in his feet, with decreased sensation in L5 distribution. He had central disk herniation at L4-5 on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He had bilateral L5 transforaminal steroid injections with preservative-free bupivacaine and betamethasone. He developed hiccups on the evening of the day of injection, which persisted for 5 days and resolved spontaneously.
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