A FLORIDA teenager’s intractable hiccups are back, just when she thought it was safe to return to school after the almost uninterrupted diaphragm spasm that had plagued her for five weeks subsided.

On her second day back at school since the unusual condition started Jan. 15, Jennifer Mee had to leave class again, as her nose started to bleed and the almost nonstop hiccups set in again, the St. Petersburg Times newspaper reported Friday.

“I’m at my wit’s end,” said Rachel Robidoux, the girl’s mother, adding that her daughter is upset, discouraged and in pain.

Mee had started hiccuping Jan. 15, close to 50 times a minute. All of a sudden, Feb. 28, she took a deep breath and appeared to have been cured, until the hiccups set in again Thursday.

(SD-Agencies)