Turning Up the Heat

I haven't posted for a while because there hasn't been much change, but I've decided maybe I need to toughen up my mouth a bit. I've been able to eat a little bit of peppers for a while, but I'm going to try to increase the heat some. I've read several times that one of the treatments for BMS is peppers, but in the past that has seemed very undesirable. Now I'm at the point where it might make sense.

My husband likes to make Mexican scrambled eggs (his own recipe) for breakfast on Saturday mornings. He's been making it very mild, for my benefit, but this morning I asked him to put more peppers in it than he has been. Just in case, I asked him to make the chunks of jalapenos bigger so I could pick them out if necessary. But it wasn't! It seemed kind of hot, but I could handle it. And man, was it good!

My goal is to be able to eat peppers hot enough to drain my sinuses when they're stopped up.

Also, I've been drinking coffee, with a lot of milk, almost every day. (Although I'm drinking much less than I used to, usually only one cup or less per day.) But I think I'll try decreasing the milk gradually. Before I developed BMS I used to drink it black, and very hot. (I would always stick it in the microwave for a few seconds after pouring a cup.) I've been able to drink it a little hotter already than I was when I started drinking it again a few months ago, so that's an improvement.

We'll see what happens.