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thanks, that was a helpful post!!
I have an excellent chili recipe, I am going to have to make it.

Ah, that's where it all begins, an innocent chilli. Then you find yourself adding some 'Frank's Hot Sauce', next comes the 'Mega Death Sauce', then the 'Mad Dog Silver Sauce' and, before you know it, you are eating raw habañero pepper, or worse.. It is a slippery slope Cece..

I would far rather eat raw habanero peppers dipped in Frank's Hot Sauce than have a clot even consider taking up residence in either of my jugulars.

And I am still very glad yours was evicted, with a little help from the hot sauce and the prescription blood thinners and a healthy dose of good luck. We could all use good luck around here, we've had enough of the bad.

I am still a little euphoric from my procedure, does it show?

It does, I'm everso glad for you. You deserve all the luck in the world after your devotion on the forum here..

Really?

L,
it is good to hear that your thrombosis has cleared. I am also considering getting the treatment in Egypt; however, there are some issues that I still wanna address beforehand. I do not know how the valves are treated in Egypt? In case of a narrow annulus, would they destroy the annulus while they are treating it? A vascular surgeon told me that in his opinion this can cause the remodeling of the vein. In case of a leaflets fusion, would they just open up the leaflets or would they destroy them? I know that they are saying that 15% of the people have no valves, but is there no consequnce of getting rid of the valves?

Hello

As you probably know, Dr Tariq considers problems with valves to be behind most of the stenosis. I think the annulus is broken, yes. At least I think that that must have been the loud crack that I heard when they treated the left IJV and performed a valvotomy. As for the procedure in the case of leaflets fusion, I have no idea. But remodelling of the vein- isn't that the idea? What undesirable outcomes does the surgeon predict?

You could always ask Dr Tariq direct - http://www.drsinan.com/en/Info.aspx?d=2 He's quite slow at responding to emails sometimes though.. If you do then could you share the answers with us?

You'd be able to visit Tahrir square! And the tourists sites will be a lot less crowded (I saw a segment on Al Jazeera - right now you are one of a dozen tourists wheras there were thousands a few months ago in Giza, it must be pleasant to have your own personal tour of the pyramids!) Mind you, that's not really the most important thing..

Not to scare anyone away, but I believe that it should be noted that comparing Mad Dog 357 to regular "hot sauce," e.g., Tobasco, is like comparing an oxy-acetylene torch to a match. There is a good reason the label on Mad Dog 357 comes with a hold harmless statement.



NHE

You're right NHE, it was quite irresponsible of me to mention it - it's incredibly hot.. I'm addicted to it now (all the endorphins that are released by the body in response to the attack) and so I forgot what the experience of tasting a drop must be like for others. Nevertheless, from what I've read, I think that there's a really good chance that drowning myself in capsaicin cleared my thrombosis.

That pepper stuff sounds like a right bloody good idea so to speak. I feel lucky though maybe it's early days. On the other hand maybe it's not a good thing that Dr. MacDonald's people were so tight-fisted with my results. They seemed to be respecting the doctor-doctor thing, and wouldn't tell me zip. Maybe also too full of themselves, because after all, I paid cash! They may have seen a thrombosis, but I haven't seen anything, even though they said they would send it to my doctor.

Anyway maybe I am luckier because of the heart stent regime. I was on Plavix for a year, before the Procedure, and another 3 months after. But my cardiac guy has also had me on lifetime prescriptions of 1 Adult (coated) aspirin per day, and 80 mg of a statin, which is a horse-pill high dose.



I know nothing about the safety. I have no idea if they have any effect on clotting. If statins help EAE/'MS' maybe it has something to do with blood flow.

The blood viscosity thing rears its head again. Because I suspect low viscosity has something to do with reflux, I wonder if the regime I am on for my heart has something to do with my legs. It is a crushing thing, which I can feel whenever I've had the laptop on my lap too long, even way before my legs jump.

Sorry, OT again, I know. Is there OK infrastructure in Egypt? I expect Gadaffi's reaction to the same sort of popular uprising has made things much more difficult in Libya.

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CCSVI procedure Albany Aug 2010
'_MS' is over - if you want it
Patients sans/without patience

Don't worry about it. I just wanted people to know that this stuff isn't your typical hot sauce found in a grocery store. I actually have a bottle of it myself as I went through a chili head phase a while back*. I even considered buying some hotter stuff, perhaps a 1,000,000 scoville rated extract, but find that the Mad Dog at 357,000 scovilles is about as hot a sauce as I really need.

* I used to eat habanero lollipops (actual lollipops with chunks of dried habanero+seeds inside) and also chew on dried habanero seeds. I even started to develop a small numb spot on my tounge. However, one day I made the mistake of touching my face after handling some habanero seeds and felt a little burning sensation on my cheek. This would have been no big deal, but I got a little concerned about it and decided to wash my face. Big mistake. The soap and water carried the trace amounts of capsaicin into both of my eyes and I couldn't open them for about 15 minutes afterwards due to the pain. The Blair's Death sauces are good stuff though and so are Dave's Insanity sauces (at around 50,000 scovilles a few of drops in a small bowl of salsa are just enough to heat it up a bit). By the way, have you ever checked out http://www.mohotta.com ?

NHE

This Mad Dog silver edition is about 700,00o Scovilles they say, although it's probably a lie, and I think that it's about all I can take without using a pipette..

The lollipops sound great! I have just had my first habenero seeds that I planted sprout and plan to make some chilli + strawberry sorbet. Hmm, I'm not too sure but I'll give it a go. The face washing incident doesn't sound too nice...

A nice link there but I'm in the UK. I go to >this place.<

My friend Phil used to be a weird bird. One day we dropped him off on the street in Chicago because he wanted to hitchhike to the Astrodome to see a guru. He was wearing nothing but a robe, and carrying nothing but a guitar and a flute. One of the last times I saw him in those days he made himself a little ill because he sat down with some pita bread and ate a full jar of whole jalapeno peppers. Ooogh.

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"Try - Just A Little Bit Harder" - Janis Joplin
CCSVI procedure Albany Aug 2010
'_MS' is over - if you want it
Patients sans/without patience

Phil sounds great!