franjo

Has anyone ever heard of spicy foods being effective as a pain reliever? I'm just curious as to if anyone has had any noticeable results with this. I read about it years ago. The minor 'pain' associated with eating spicy foods trigger the brain to release natural pain relievers. I'm thinking the amount of relief is probably not significant in cases like those on this board. But it may explain why I've always peppered my meals so heavily that you can barely see the food. I take the lids off of pepper shakers because the holes are too small to dispense the amount of pepper I want. Maybe I've been subconsciencly self-medicating?......franjo

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Spina-bifida occulta; Congenital Scoliosis (dextrorotatory and 'S' curve, 42 thorasic and 57 degrees lumbar); Meningomyelocele (split cord @ L1); Diastematomyelia (re-sectioned at L2-3); tethered cord @ S-3; cysts on cord; various developmental abnormalities of the spine: narrowing of all disk spaces, defects in posterior arches, ectasia of the spinal canal and dura, segmental disease, sclerosis in L. iliac bone and adjacent sacroiliac joint, unilateral osteitis condensans ilium, hypertrophic facet disease L4-5 and L5-S1.

Surgeries include, but not limited to:
Lumbar fusion-1968
Fusion with Herrington Rod instrumentation-1970
Femoral osteotomy-1971
Tethered cord release-1987
Rod removal-1987
Chiari-type pelvic osteotomy-1988
Trochanteric osteotomy-1989
Tethered cord release-2003
Fusion with instrumentation with lots and lots of screws-2003