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William,Did you read the response I sent to NB (your source for the e-mail) this morning regarding pepperoncini and all of the information he has put out to us? I sent it "Reply All" so you should have gotten a copy as you were on his "cc" list. It's more complicated than your note. Ask him to post the full information to the BB. Otherwise, this brief note from you could be very confusing to folks. --Lynne
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Lynne and William,If you have more info about the pepperoncini and voice improvement, could you please share with us? I'm not sure what pepperrocini are...where do you buy them, what do they look like? Thanks.
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Pepperoncini (sweet to mild, 0-1): Most often found green, pickled, and in salads, this 2- to 5-inch-long pointy tube is wrinkled, thin-fleshed, and can be grown in a home garden to a red color. Fancy Nancy, if you search for pepperoncini on the internet, you will find more information about pepperoncini and where to buy them. There is no quarantee that using pepperoncini for voice improvement will help you. Each person with SD is different.
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Thanks to William for posting the pepper info I sent him, among others. I have just registered for the bulletin board.The peppers we had at our support group were hot (i.e. "mild" would not accurately describe). I have since bought some at the grocery store under the name pepperoncini and they were the same thing. The peppers came loose in a pizza our support group ordered from Papa John's. Unfortunately, the effect is very short-lived, lasting only as long as you can feel the juice from the pepper stinging your throat. The reason it was so exciting was that we actually had our normal voices restored for an instant. It was great to find that we still had them. I have not had Botox. The other three people present at this experiment had, but for one person it had had no effect. Ninian
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Hi Ninian,Glad to finally see you on the SD-BB. There was so much about this pepperoncini topic that we were writing about off the BB so I thought the initial message might be confusing to folks. One thing I haven't asked you in the previous e-mails we've had on this subject (since we both noted that pepperoncinis and larygitis DO have an effect on talking ability), did you folks at that Support Group note how long your "normal" voices came back? As I told you before, I've been eating pepperoncinis my whole life (it's a "California-thing") and I've never seen any effect on my SD from them but laryngitis in 1991 returned my "normal" voice for about two days. Did the peppers affect you for several minutes or an hour or more? For the people who had a positive effect, was it consistent among you? Thanks for info.....
--Lynne
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I've been doing some serious thinking about this item. Here are my thoughts. The active ingredient in peppers is a type of oil called capsicum. Some of you may recognize this as an ingredient in many analgesic type balms as well as the active ingredient in pepper spray(a self-defense item). Anyway...to make a long story longer....capsicum tends to act as a short term nerve block. Just ask anyone who was sprayed with pepper spray(and no, I was never sprayed. I'm actually a quite calm and docile creature...but I digress). Not only does it burn but you quite literally can not open your eyes. Same goes with the capsicum rubs.....kills the pain by momentarily disturbing the nerve impulses. Anyway, I'm theorizing that it was a similar type of effect for the group that ate the pepperoncini....a type of nerve block action. I was just wondering what people were drinking and if there was any correlation as to who was affected and who was not?
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Uncle Fester,Write to Ninian Beall on this as he made the same connection regarding the capsicum when we first heard about this weeks ago. We've been trying to compare notes on "the pepper effect" and an "inflamed throat due to larygitis." Many of these effects are quite temporary however. Any idea how to render them more permanent??? Do you know any docs or scientific researchers who are working on this? You've obviously done some research as Ninian also has. That is my question also. Who was affected?...for how long?...what were the other variables? Very good question, Uncle Fester....and excellent info. --Lynne
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My thought for the Laryngitis is this....As the cords become inflamed they also begin to swell. The edema probably prevents a good bit of the spasms....
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I think you're right, Taz. I remember back 9 and 10 yrs ago when my symptoms were starting that, whenever I had laryngitis, people would say I sounded "sexy." When I didn't, they said I sounded sick or angry. Fortunately, I had laryngitis 3 times during those two years!! (Ha-ha...who would ever think that laryngitis could be such a cool thing). Interesting looking back on all this stuff from a distance.
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