[Warning, possibly too much toilet talk]
I used to get Thai red curry (and ramen, and Indian. Anything I could get) at the most possible hotness I could convince the restaurant to give a white boy and all was fine. Until one night I tried a new place by my house. It was really spicy, but no more than any other place I’ve had before. Suddenly about an hour later my gut said something was wrong and I was doubled over on the toilet in the worst gut pain for about an hour.
So I gave up on spicy for about a year.
Lately I’ve tried getting back into it with sauces and have been having [great success](https://youtu.be/r13riaRKGo0). Yesterday I popped open a bottle of a new green sauce I got and found it delicious and not all that spicy at all. I’d say not much more than Tabasco? So I went HAM on it. Had some on crackers, tried it on a pickle, dumped it in some chili. Really not that hot at all. Then 2am rolled around and my intestines said “Defcon 1!!!” and I was in gut wrenching pain on the toilet for the next 90 minutes. Guys and gals…. I was whimpering it hurt so bad.
Hell. I even normally get a “spicy” guacamole from grocery stores (which we all know isn’t spicy) and it seems like a 1/3 of the brands do the same thing to me.
I really miss my spice. But I feel like I’m gambling with my intestines life and for the life of me, I can’t figure out what the problem is. It has nothing to do with the spiciness level at all.
I mean… I’m not talking about the next day burning ring of fire here. It’s like something just makes my intestines say “NO!!” and I’m punished for an hour and a half.
Any advice?