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I do everything I can to eat food that helps me instead of hurts me. I have food allergies, so it's a lot of work. But so many people who can't handle spicy food will eat it anyway. Then they roll around in pain for an hour or two. I don't get it. Is that normal to cause yourself pain?
Heh! That would be me. I'm not as bad these days but I've got to the point where I actually prayed for death, the pain was so bad. However, as bad as the pain is, your brain is being flooded with good chemicals and I was getting a high out of it.
I still eat food that's probably way hotter than most people can bear but I don't go much beyond moderate pain. Having said that, my definitions might vary from some people. By moderate, I mean panting like a dog, sweating, nose running, eyes running and making noises like women do when they're about to give birth. And kind of not being able to touch the tongue to the roof of my mouth because of the burn.
I went to a work Christmas party at a Chinese restaurant. I tried to convince a colleague that the bowls of chilli where sliced capsicum to soothe ones mouth after consuming a hot dish. After three or four mouthfuls of "capsicum" I held it together for a minute of so and then your description details my condition pretty well save for the birthing sound effects. My colleague failed to take the bait.
For me it's not spicy food, it's dairy. I eat dairy knowing full well later I will get very sick because of my lactose intolerance. The funny thing is, I DO like soy products BUT processed soy is actually pretty bad for you, so I might as well be eating the dairy. For some reason ice-cream hardly has any effect on me, it might be because most soft-serve is mostly stabilizing gum rather than dairy, that's why Dairy Queen ice-cream melts slower and is so thick. The worst is pure milk, especially skim, the more fat, the less lactose. So I usually drink 2 percent, but I STILL get sick. I just love it too much to give it up. Though I used to drink like 4 glasses of milk a day, but after I became intolerant at 13 I cut down to like 1 glass a week :(
BTW, a cool fact about lactose intolerance is that we can eat most yoghurt and aged cheeses without having any problems because the cultures in the yoghurt and old cheese break down the lactose into simpler sugars I think. ^.^
Spicy food makes my life. Sometimes I might have a (little more then a) bit of pain from my choice... but I just can't help myself. It tastes so good, and it's not necessarily bad for me....so... to each their own, I guess.
The problem with cheeseburgers is that it's a slow death. But spicy food is so quick to act on those with sensitive stomachs. That's why it surprises me. I know there is a pain-relieving effect overall, but having had heartburn a couple of times in my life, I am shocked that people don't avoid it. I'm lucky because I only like food a mild to medium hot, and it doesn't tear me up at all.
Heart attacks are painful, yet the popularity of the cheeseburger continues.