On Monday I received a package from @papa-pepper that included some dried peppers as well as some seeds for planting of some of the hottest peppers in the world! The dried peppers he sent were Ghost Peppers and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Peppers. On Monday I ate the Ghost Pepper. It was a very delicious pepper that had quite the kick. No side effects were noted. Here is the post and video of me eating the Ghost Pepper.

Post: Ghost Pepper Challenge - Peppers from @papa-pepper - Video included

With a little pep in my step I was under the impression that if I could eat the Ghost Pepper and could handle the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper. The Trinidad Moruga is up to 2,000,000 Scoville Units whereas a Jalapeno is around 10,000 and a habanero is around 200,000. My overconfidence ended up biting me big time. Payback later ensued. It was about 5pm when I decided to fully embrace the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Challenge.

Warning: Do Not Try This!

If you do attempt this I have a few suggestions:

• Don’t do it.
• Make sure you have eaten 15-20 minutes before eating a pepper of this scale.
• When you eat make sure to eat some greasy/oily as the heat producing capsaicin is fat soluble. Examples include cheeseburger or peanut butter sandwich.

Timeline of Events

5:00pm: Here is the beginning of the end

5:05pm: I can no longer take it without any water. I chug a glass of water. My mouth is still on fire.

5:07pm: I walk to refill my glass of water and my hands go completely numb. I chug another glass of water. Still no relief. My friend goes to the nearby store to get some yogurt.

5:10pm: I chug another glass of water and begin eating 4 tootsie rolls. The burn is starting to calm down so I think.

5:12pm: My friend arrives from the store with the yogurt and I get a full bowl.

5:15pm: I finish the bowl of yogurt and another glass of water. The burn in almost entirely gone.

5:25pm: No burn is left at all and I am back to normal (I thought).

7:15pm: My stomach begins to hurt, but this dissipates with mind over matter.

8:30pm: I eat a full dinner of steak, spinach, and field peas. No apparent pain.

9:30pm: I turn on the tv and watch the NBA western conference semi-finals between the Rockets and the Spurs while I get on Steemit.

10:30pm: The stomach pains begin to surface mildly, but I am still fine. I continue to browse Steemit.

11:30pm: I leave my girlfriend’s house and head home as she is asleep and my stomach is still in pain.

11:35pm: I arrive home and the pain in my stomach is continuing to increase. I think to myself maybe I can just sleep it off.

12:00am: I begin to doze off and catch some sleep.

12:30am: I’m awaken with the most intense stomach pains to date. They are increasing by the minute. By now, I am laying in the fetal position in bed.

12:45am: I get up from bed and pace around my room in discomfort.

12:55am: I use the restroom and it burns. Badly!

1:00am: I lie back down and the pain continues.

1:02am: I begin to research remedies for my pain by googling “stomach pain after eating hot peppers”. There is some good information and some misinformation out there.

1:05am: I decide to make a peanut butter sandwich.

1:08am: I finish the peanut butter sandwich and lie back down.

1:15am: No relief as of yet. I get up and walk around the house. I can feel my body temperature start to rise.

1:16am: I lie on the couch for a few minutes and my mind starts to race. “Am I going to be okay?”

1:20am: I go to the bathroom unsure if I need to use the restroom or if I need to throw up, but my stomach is in excruciating pain.

1:25am: I pull a chair into the bathroom and get back on the internet to see if there are any other suggestions. A few mention throwing up to get it out of your stomach. This is the last ditch effort. I wet a towel and put it on the back of my neck.

1:27am: I try to throw up by forcing myself, but I am just gagging.

1:28am: I finally throw up a little bit.

1:29am: The floodgates are opened and don’t stop for a whole minute.

1:30am: I flush the toilet and get up. My body is now sweating profusely. My boxers are soaked in sweat and my esophagus, mouth, and finger are all on fire.

1:32am: I walk around the house and think “when is this going to end?” and “Am I going to make it?”

1:35am: I am back in the bathroom hunched over, forcing myself to throw up again. My body is pouring out sweat and I start to feel very cold from the sweat.

1:40am: I sit in the chair in the bathroom hoping this pain and burn will cease soon.

1:55am: I throw up for the final time. The burn no longer bothers me as I have gotten accustomed to it.

2:05am: I return to my bed with my stomach still in pain, but to a less extent.

2:10am: I shut my eyes and fall asleep.

7:15am: I wake up with stomach pains and the urge to use the bathroom again. It now burns to pee.

7:17am: I go back to sleep without a hitch.

8:35am: I wake up and the pain has completely subsided.

9:30am: I finally feel back to my normal self, well my new normal self.

Lessons learned. I will resist any temptations to eat a hot pepper like this in its entirety in the future. Thanks for the peppers @papa-pepper! I will stick to grounding them up and sprinkling very tiny amounts over my food.