Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 304 - Weird Medicine 2000 B.C.

Episode Date: March 21, 2018

Around 12 years ago, Dr Steve and PA John did the first Weird Medicine on XM channel 202 during the "Saturday Night Virus." This show chronicles Dr Steve's 1st appearance on O&A and that 1st show.   STUFF.DOCTORSTEVE.COM simplyherbals.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why can't you trust Adams? Because they make up everything. You're listening to Weird Medicine with Dr. Steve on the Riotcast Network, Riotcast.com. I've got diphtherio crushing my esophagus. I've got Subola vibes dripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbound, exacerbating my infectable woes. I want to take my brain now,

blast with the wave, an ultrasonic, egographic and a pulsating shave. I want a magic pill. All my ailments, the health equivalent of citizen cane. And if I don't get it now in the tablet, I think I'm doomed, then I'll have to go insane. I want to requiem. I'm a disease. So I'm aging Dr. Steve.

It's weird medicine, the first and still only uncensored medical show in the history of broadcast radio and also a podcast. I'm Dr. Steve, and this is a show for people who would never listen to a medical show on the radio or the internet. If you have a question, you're embarrassed to take your regular medical provider. If you can't find an answer anywhere else, give us a call at 347-7664323. that's 347 Poohhead. Follow us at Twitter at Weird Medicine at Lady Diagnosis and at D.R. Scott W.M. And visit our website at Weirdmedicine.com or Dr. Steve.com for podcast, medical news and stuff you can buy or go to our merchandise store at cafepress.com slash weird medicine. Most importantly, we are not your medical providers.

Take everything you hear with a grain of salt. Don't act on anything you hear on this show without talking it over with your doctor. nurse practitioner, physician assistant, pharmacist, chiropractor, yoga master, physical therapist or whatever. All right, very good. So we're on vacation. It's my kids' spring break.

So I thought what I would do this week is do something we haven't done in a long time is go way back, way back to the very beginning. And I'm going to play you two extended segments. I hope they're not too boring. First is going to be the first time that I was ever on Opie and Anthony live in studio. And that was, I believe, October 11th or 12th of 2007. And P.A. John and I went up there to do our show. We were supposed to do 90 minutes on Saturday night.

And we just thought we were going to sit on the bleachers and watch them do the show. And the next thing we knew, they were calling me in the studio to talk. And I was petrified. And I mean, I was a radio television motion pictures major in college, and I did some college radio. But, you know, at that time, particularly Opie and Anthony were radio gods to us. And it was really, you know, those were by far happier days. No question about it. But that was the show.

and there was no other show that came close to it on satellite radio and they were the number one show on XM and they were eating Sirius' lunch at that time and it was a very happy time and loads of fun and here is

and it is an extended bit and then after that will be the first hour of the very first weird medicine show that was ever done with P.A. John and me with Danny Ross, the producer, E-Rock, was supposed to be our first guest, and we had so many phone calls that we had to bump him. And that caused quite a lot of merriment in the studio. You know, hey, Dr. Steve's here, his very first show, he bumped E-Rock.

And then that's it. And we'll just do that, and that'll be it for this week. But it might be kind of fun to go back and listen to some of that stuff. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. Please go to stuff.com. Scroll down. You can see all the things we talk about on the show.

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But I'll leave that up to you. You can do it online. It's just a little bit trick here. if you have any problems email me all right and uh here we go this is the best of weird medicine with dr steve hey we got uh i got to tell you like uh we have a lot of people that stop by and say hi and uh in between uh commercials during the other side of the show anthony and jimmy ran off to meet dr steve and i'm thinking to myself man you know these guys never run off to meet anybody no but dr steve is in house and you guys ran off to say hi to all we love dr steve is uh

legendary absolutely who else can I call and ask chlamydia and hepatitis questions too is it normal when I piss that I have to fucking grab the uh grab the uh the little uh what are they called

towel rack no it should be joke books and fucking read them before I start talking fucking cuck sucker I am how do I get paid to talk for a living and grab the uh I can't pull pipes at a thin air God what a fucking hey Dr. Steve do you have any

fucking talent pills you can prescribe for me What a fucking asshole I am. Hey, uh, oh, well, we'll talk to Dr. Steve next. We've got to take a break right now. I just found out because we got Mark Wahlberg calling right at 945. So we should break right now so we can get him on the phone after the break. Okay. Right.

So we'll do the Dr. Steve thing. We've got a nice live audience today. Yes, we do. Not bad. There they are. Hanging out on the bleachers. We'll talk to them. Anybody have a medical question for Dr. Steve?

You got anyone got a problem? You want to hand out like, uh, something that itches? some paper and pens and see if they got something they want to anonymously ask Dr. Steve. Let's do that. Danny's working in the crowd right now. So we'll do. Do you want to bring in Dr. Steve?

I certainly do. Dr. Steve's doing a show on 202 tomorrow night. He's teaming up with what? Big Kev? Like Big Kev's doing an hour and then Dr. Steve's doing an hour? Yeah. Is that it? Yeah.

There you go. Take the noisy chair. I love how the wheels on these chairs just go round and round. They're very noisy on the wooden floor. What's up, Dr. Stee? Hello. I'm just going to do this the whole segment. Oh, I love this.

You know, you guys... It's like a Ouija board chair. Yeah, oh, uh-oh. We're all doing it. This is radio. This is compelling radio. Do this on your show. We're the pro.

We're showing you how to do it. Just move your chair around a lot. You are the professionals. It's a time wasteer. Well, you got a nice set of pipes, though, for the air. Thanks. I think you've got a good, uh, good radio. voice thank you my friend dr. Steve whose greatest quality is that he can keep a secret

it's got secrets on every single person in the studio I've got files on everyone in the studio he could write a book yes I'm sure he already has not about us but he's really I mean a one with you know very unethical book about about people because he's supposed to be confidential that's right so what is your stupid radio show going to be about Jesus well the stupid radio show is called weird medicine weird medicine okay we're doing it at 1030 on Saturday on the Saturday night Is it going to be better than Than and Sam?

That's hard to say I've never actually heard Stan and Sam. Oh, God. I actually never heard that in time. But I have... Weird medicine with Dr. Studio. Will it be better than a musical adventure hour? Yeah, that's pretty good.

Explain further, though. Weird medicine. What do you mean? Well, we're going to... Like rubbing shit on your skin and stuff? I'm rubbing shit on your skin. What's... I think the average...

I've seen your fans. Yeah, yeah. And we've seen our fans. So you're going to do a weight loss show. I think that health isn't always the number one priority. True. Priority. So we're going to work on that a little bit.

And yeah, we're going to do some, we may do some weight loss. I've actually got a segment on why being fat can save your life. So that may be encouraging for some of your list. How does that have to get followed up? Like, if you hit by a bus. Boring. Would you be a big? nice to Dr. Steve.

Being fat can save your life. I would like to know. Could you give a hint to her? Well, I was going to save it for the show. Yeah. That's George of Tees. Have you done radio in the past? You got good mic technique.

You got the good voice. It doesn't count what I did. I did college radio 30 years ago. College radio. Well, we need him to cut some stuff for us. He's a prescription for good radio. That's what I like to say. That's something some hack like PD would come up with.

What don't we say he's your prescription? The doctor is in. Six to ten. Oh, off, off, off, off, got up. You know, well, we got people calling in with their weird shit already. We got Jason in Jersey. But this is the show you're going to do tomorrow night, right? Right.

But I was doing now when people actually listen to the end. Jason, what's up? Hey, fellas, how you doing? Hey, thanks, Danny, for making for that. Yes, Jason. I have a serious question for you. I'm not making a bit. sometimes when I'm taking a dump

I'll come I'll ejaculate I won't be hard or anything like some like I'm excuse me right there stop no disrespect sir I don't even need the doctor I know your problem is

you're German Wow Seriously is that a problem Well why would it be a problem It depends on where you live Yeah It depends on how many times you're moving your bowels every day.

Yeah. But it's leaving a lot of the place. It happens every once in a while. Dr. Steve, if I may? Yes. I believe this has to do with his prostate being stimulated as he is defecating. You stole my thunder, Anthony? I just want to see if I can compete with the doctor, with the good doctor.

Absolutely. You know, a urologist can actually induce ejaculation by sticking their finger up your rear end and massaging your prostate. Sure. Don't have to tell me. and why wouldn't they i made them have to change that wax paper on the uh counter quite a few times are you uh are you one of those doctors that have to stick the fingers up to poop i have done that oh my god can you do one of those today absolutely dude rubber gloves i've got to get rubber gloves i know you're not look at them rubber

gloves where's pat from tony where's pat duffy let's see how great pat duffy really is Oh, my God. It's an actual physical. It would be a physical. You would actually do this right now? What are you feeling for? He's a doctor. He's a real doctor.

Well, you know, actually, I can't practice in the state of New York. You're not practicing. You're just feeling for you being silly. What do you feel for in a prostate? When you stick your finger up there, you're obviously feeling through the intestine or the lower, the rectum. Right. What are you feeling for when you feel a prostate? Well, what the trick is is that you feel a bunch of normal prostates.

Prostate. Sorry. Amazing, man. Every day, day in and day out. And then you start to recognize the abnormal prostate. Because you've got to do this pretty quickly, I noticed. Like, you can't be standing there for a while with your finger up. Some guys' ass going, I don't know, let me check this side and that.

Unless you're my doctor. You go in. Fuck. So you go in pretty quick. Pretty quick. Give a little feel. Right to last. left to right up and down and what does it feel like it's like a rubbery walnut

a rubbery walnut about the size of a walnut about the size of a walnut it's supposed to be anyway and rubbery and then what would they feel is that like maybe bumpy isn't good obviously is not swollen enlarged is not good and hard would it be hard if it was cancers or something sometimes it could be woody woody woody I have a medical question for Dr. Steve. All right. This has been bugging me. I have at times the inside of my ear itches.

Yes. Like everyone gets an itchy ear, but I mean a lot. Yeah. And I'm terrified that it's because there's cancer and knitting itself through my skull. Wow. Usually cancer wouldn't just itch. But the thing to do is, I know you have a doctor.

I have them look in there. If they don't see anything, a little cortisone on a, They actually make a cortisone eardrop that you can drop in your ear, and that'll get rid of it. You think so? You don't think it's any serious? Is it seasonal? I don't know.

Is it worse in the spring and fall? I don't know. It's been happening, but not for that long. Are you very waxy? Could it be waxy? Are you wax? You're very waxy. Do you notice a lot of earwax?

No. An ear kit. You can buy a little ear kit at Dwayne Reed. It's called a murine ear kit, and you can lavage out your ear with this solution. And then if it's wax, that'll get rid of it. anything serious? I don't think so, but you know, I'd have to look at your ears aside. Hey, those kits that you find for cleaning out your ear, that's something that's worthwhile to do. Yeah, it's a lot better to shove it. It'll show them in your ear. Yeah, because you're just packing the, right,

the peanut butter. Right. See, I don't, I don't like the Q-tip thing. It gives me the hebe-jeebies. Yeah. So get out of the shower. I take a piece of tissue. Yeah. I kind of roll it up a little, so it's bigger than a cue-tip, but not shove it in there so all the wax gets a pushback, but just kind of let it dab in there. And sometimes you pull out a little surprise yeah yeah it's nice well um put it on a ritz cracker oh yeah delicious i'm not being a douche to you am i no no absolutely not you're my little pal i'm being called the fuckhead who's are you serious because i'm like because you did the boring thing i said hey don't we stop being a fuckhead for dr steve you douche we're just this is how we show love on this show exactly

is it we love dr steve hey uh cue his music Oh, my God. What? Oh, I thought that was his deep voice. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, I got it. His name is Pat Duffy. There he is.

Actually, I got a commentary. He sounds like Adam West. Adam West? Yes. Oh, yeah. Batman. The original. Ah, Batman.

Catwoman. Wow. He does impressions. The one's got a finger in your hands. He does these impersonations. And if you're not coming from the person, You know what? I think for the first time I'm going to listen to 202 on a Saturday night.

Yeah. All right. This is the best of weird medicine with Dr. Steve. Make it count for you. Good evening, everybody. Are we on? And welcome to Weird Medicine. I'm Dr. Steve, Doctor to the Stars, and sitting to my right is P.A. John.

Hello. And for the next 90 minutes, you're going to hear a medical show that's a little different from others. It's a medical show for people who would never listen to a medical show. A lot of the listeners of this channel are men, and I think it's fair to say, P.A. John, that their health, it's not always been the highest priority. No. Men's health has largely been ignored by the media for years. We're not going to change that, but we're going to put a debt in it, I think. Also, tonight we have a special celebrity guest in the second segment, so you want to stay around for that.

So let's get into it. Give us a call at 8666-W-1-WW. That's 8669-1969 for those who can't spell wow. We'll answer any questions we can. If you're too shy to call, give us a call or email us at Dr. Steve 202 at gmail.com. That's DR Steve 202 at gmail.com. And if we run out of stuff to talk about, I was a cameraman for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. That's awesome.

70s, I knew all those guys, Rick Flair, Blackjack, Mulligan, Rufus R. Jones, Wahoo, McDaniel, we'll turn this into wrestling corner with Dr. Steve if we have to. Maybe we should just start with that. It might not be a bad idea. Considering how the opening went. Well, we've got a few emails from listeners that were emailed to us prior to the show. I thought we could start with one of those, John. Sounds good.

This is one from a list. that is anonymous, dear Dr. Steve, my wife has a horrendous vaginal odor. It's so bad I gag when I get close to it and it's put me off eating fish forever. What could be causing this? Now, I just want to say right here, at the beginning, not 30 seconds ago, I said we were going to be doing men's health. And then, of course, we're going right into the old cliche vaginal odor jokes. Yeah, but you can still come back to the men's health because if you do have a vaginal odor, that horrendous, maybe you're going to have impotency or something.

Well, yeah, maybe who knows. But, you know, this was sent in by a guy, so this is, I guess this could be classified as a men's issue. But, you know, every woman has a different order, but sometimes there's a problem. And what you want to do is look for reversible causes. You know, if a woman has, and let's talk about things that this probably isn't. First, we'll talk about common vaginal problems. If you have a cottage cheese discharge it, and I'm never real big on the food, when it comes to things like this.

But cottage cheese discharge is probably yeast. You can buy yeast medication over the counter like monostat. If you have a problem that persists, see your doctor. This usually causes kind of a, well, a yeasty, musty smell, not a fishy smell, though. A yellow custardy discharge. It looks like maybe crimbrily or something. Yeah, another food analogy, and another food I won't eat anytime soon, is almost always a parasite called Trimberley or something.

a parasite called trichomonas and this is something that needs immediate treatment with an antibiotic and all the person sexual partners need to be treated so this we got to see your doctor for but if you have a clear or no discharge but with a fishy odor this is almost always a thing called bacterial vaginosis now this is this is you have good bacteria and you've got bad bacteria that are normal inhabitants of the female anatomy and this is just like if you had a pond and all the trout died and all that were left were carp. And this is basically the analogy that I would use for this is you're ending up with a, you know, a vagina full of bad bacteria.

Or a vagina full of carp. Well, yeah, great. Thanks. When you get this kind of mass kill of beneficial bacteria, which are called lactobacillus, of you can detect this by doing what's called a K-O-H or WIF test. This is done in the doctor's office, they take a sample of fluid, add a little potassium hydroxide, which is a chemical, and then they actually take it out into the lab, and then they put it up to their nose, and they smell it. And if it smells fishy, then you have a positive diagnosis for bacterial vaginosis.

Now, this used to be considered a benign disease. It still is mostly benign, but studies recently have shown that women who, have bacterial vaginosis, have a higher risk of contracting or transmitting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. And it also increases the risk of premature delivery in pregnant women. So doctors will always test for this early on in a pregnancy. It's really easy to treat with an antibiotic called flageal. If you do take flagell, you don't want to drink alcohol because it causes a reaction. You've heard of that stuff called ad abuse?

Yeah. Antibuse is a drug that alcoholics can take to keep to dissuade them from drinking because when they drink and take antibuse, it makes them violently ill. Fragile has that kind of effect. So don't drink and take that the same time. In the meantime, for this person, if she can't get to, I mean, this is Saturday night, if she wants to take care of this problem and thinks that she may have bacterial vaginosis, you can try a thing called a yogurt douche. Again, another food reference. Yes, absolutely. we generally on weird medicine don't recommend douching but god in his infinite wisdom made the same bacteria that makes a healthy vagina also the same stuff that makes yogurt

yummy go figure now does it come in different flavors yes but always use plain yogurt don't use strawberry or blueberry or pineapple mango yogurt use plain yogurt in a warm water douche or the sort of less appetizing well and None of this is very appetizing, but probably the less easy way to do it is to draw it up into a monostat applicator and insert it once a night for seven nights. This will overpower the bad bacteria with good bacteria, but at least see your doctor wants to make sure that's what this is. Now, one of the other things that can cause odor is a vaginal foreign body. And in my practice over the years, I have found this to be not a common problem, but it's not unheard of, to have retained condoms in the women's, you know, nether regions. Now, what kind of guy do you have to be to leave a condom behind?

You know, you know that if he left it behind, he knew that it was off at some point. At some point. And he's just like, well, I don't know where it is. So I guess it's just gone. It's just disappeared. Yeah, they don't look for it. They just, and then they kind of slink off into the night and go, t-he-he-he. You know, I pulled a fast one.

Maybe that's how the immaculate inception happened. So, wow. Wow, already offending 70% of the country. Well, done, P.A. John. Well, that was P.A. John. Yeah. Well, you want to take some phone calls? Yeah.

Let's see. We have Blowhard from, here we go. Sorry, everybody. That's Blow Hard on line two. Blowhard, you're on Weird Medicine with Dr. Steve and PA, John. Buddy, Dr. Steve and physician's assistant. See, I know what that is. John, how you doing, buddies?

Hello, buddy. Excellent. What can we do for you? I think we first want to say congratulations on being on the air. It's great to hear a doctor on the radio was not selling green tea extracts or colon cleanser. Well, you haven't heard the whole show yet. Which leads me to my question. I want to discuss something that's kind of

embarrassing to millions of Americans, and that is IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon, which basically left unchecked leads to explosive shitting. And I was diagnosed about 10 years ago with it, and I know all about how it's, you know, nerves,

nerves, and bad diet, and all of the above. My question is, how can you eat healthy without having the spasms and the explosive shitting when at times I eat crap and it goes away and yet when I eat the healthy vegetables I do the workout I lift my weights etc my stomach just erupts like a fire hydrant in the South Bronx in July yeah I mean what is the deal with the IBS can you just explain a little bit about what is actually happening and how to prevent it or how to at least stop the symptoms of the shitting other specific foods blow hard

hard that cause this other than just green leafy vegetables, things like broccoli, anything like that? Yeah, well, broccoli is a staple in the diet, and also sometimes maybe one small potato could do it, a salad, like you mentioned, the leafy vegetables, and I know I drink a lot of caffeine, that's my one vice, well, I guess it is, and I know that being diabetic, I'm dehydrated, and that kind of contributes to what I get. Right. But it just seems that whenever I'm doing the right thing and eating, you know, just healthy foods, it aggravates it. Right.

If I go out and I eat a small planet or two, it definitely feels better and there's no problem to deal with. Now, I know there's drugs you can take. I've been taking the antispasmodics. I've been, you know, I tried the value in route, and it just doesn't work. Well, there are a couple of things here. Number one, I'd like to make sure that you actually have that it actually is irritable bowel syndrome. that's causing this problem because they're first off the problems that you're having are with what are called high residue foods so lots of fiber and roughage is actually good

for you or felt to be good for you but things like broccoli and beans and other things like that can actually have what we call insoluble sugars in them and those can cause explosive diarrhea separate from irritable bowel syndrome and the thing that you might try is a medication called beino and it It has an enzyme in it that actually breaks down these sugars and should slow that down. And I don't know if you've ever tried it. I've seen it advertised. Okay.

I would give it a try. I really would. It may be that your symptoms are caused by irritable bowel syndrome, but it may actually be something else. It may actually be a reaction to the foods that you're eating rather than spastic colon per se. So I'd give it a try. And, of course, talk to your doctor. This is for entertainment. purposes only.

We'll bring up the vino thing. Okay, man. You guys, good luck, and I hope to hear more of the show in the future. I can listen to you guys for hours. Okay. I know you just applauded, but I like the topic. Thank you, Blahard. Hey, thanks, Blahard.

Have a good day. And we've got another email here, P.A. John. It's from a guy who just signs his name PD, and it says, Dear Dr. Steve, my wife wants me to have a vasectomy, and then he puts in parentheses, something stupid about it being less risky for me than for her. and I'm okay with the idea but will it change the quality or the quantity of my spluge

well actually you know vasectomy we should talk about this because a lot of men fear vasectomy and I think there's a lot of misinformation about vasectomy and actually line 6 has a vasectomy question and we will get to that just hang on the line

vasectomy is an office procedure it's basically just cutting the cord from the testicles to the rest of the body. The cord's called the Vazdephyrins. And cutting off the supply of sperm cells doesn't really change the character of the ejaculation. Sperms less than 10% of the ejaculate itself. And they're microscopic, minute part of the ejaculate.

The rest of the fluids basically produce in the prostate gland and another place called the seminal vesicles. You will not be able to detect a difference in your splooge. Let me talk a little bit, because I want to demystify this procedure for a lot of guys. It isn't a fun procedure.

You may know, P.A. John, that I had a vasectomy. Why would I know that? Good question. God, I don't know. I was just making conversation. Actually, and hoping you would say yes. Well, yeah, that's because you told me this. Exactly, just now.

I did have a vasectomy, and basically they put you in a position called dorsal lithotomy position. Now, this is a position that all women know, because it's the same position. that women are placed in when they have a pap smear. So this is, should we say, a somewhat vulnerable position, and guys aren't used to it. And don't do like I did, which was not shave before you go, because my stupid urologist didn't tell me that you need to shave. And so I'm laying there.

He puts me in this position with my feet up in the stirrups and my legs splayed apart. And then he's talking to me. Well, did you enjoy the restaurant the other night? and he takes a daisy razor and starts dry shaving my nuts. Holy, and I'm like, oh, my God. And I had the white knuckle effect as I'm absolutely just tearing holes in the thing that I'm lying. I would have had the white testicle.

It was, it was unbelievable. Then the worst, so that you can avoid by shaving yourself. The local anesthetic is another interesting. thing in that when they inject you, they inject it right into the Vaz deference, which is again the tube coming from the testicle to the rest of the body. And it shares the same nerve supply with the testicle, so it feels like they're sticking the needle into your knot. Now the great news about this is that it only lasts for about 10 seconds, and then the rest

of the procedure is completely pain-free until the anesthetic wears off. Now, my wife will attest to this, of course, she came in in the middle of this thing and sees this guy just covered, you know, with his bloody hands, just talking to me about eating food at a restaurant while he's tying off these tubes inside my scrotum. Like the guy at the Japanese restaurant, setting up the food at the... It was a little bit like that, I think, at least from my position, I could just sort of see his head and his hands moving around. And so I got up and said, hell, I'm going to work. Yeah, I felt great after it. was over and you know they said no you got to go home you got to go home and it's like hell no I know better you know I feel great do you have cigarette after it was over no but

an hour later I actually was really glad I didn't try to go to work because it's it's pretty impressive the the amount of discomfort that you have again not that bad you just got to take it easy for a couple of days and then I wore a hard plastic cup for about a week after that you know an athletic supporter with a hard plastic cup which was fun because I could walk up to people and they'd say, how'd your vasectomy go? And I'd say, wow, you know, I had this really weird reaction to the anesthetic. It made my nuts hard as rocks and I'd go on the plastic, which was more of a visual thing. Anyway, your doctor will tell you when to do sperm samples and they won't be satisfied if they see even one sperm cell.

So let's grab line 6 and talk to Kent in Canada. Kent, you're on weird medicine with Dr. Steve. Hello, Kent. Hello, Kent. Hello, Kent. Hi, how are you? Good. Hey, man.

What's you got? I had a best to talk to me about a week ago. Yes. And besides, the right side seems way more bruised than the left side. Is that normal? It can happen. You know, there are some veins and blood vessels in that area that, you know, can be, traumatized by this thing

and you can get a lot of bruising on one side more than the other. Yeah, well, it also all depends on exactly like Dr. Steve was saying where they actually gave the local anesthesia. You know, they can, where they inject it may have been more so on that side. They may have gone in on the right with the needle and it was just traumatized, like

you said, a little bit more. Also, yes. There seems to be like a lot more swelling on that side. It's almost like, it feels almost like a third testicle at this point. Yes. um right about the right one again is that normal you uh you may have a little fluid collection there

and uh hematoma or something you could be blood uh this is what i would do um i'd apply are you wearing your athletic supporter like they told you yeah this box a breeze after a week is what you basically yeah okay okay and then you say i a lot of times when you see this happen guys didn't follow the instructions completely and did a little bit more than they were supposed to so i i wonder if maybe you were a little more active than you should have been. Probably. But if the swelling is still continuing and it's painful, I would. Not really painful.

Okay. Then I would watch it for a few days. Touch bases with your urologist or your family practitioner who did the procedure. And if you get any redness around that area, or if it gets hot or painful to the touch, you need a call even after hours and talk to your neurologist, okay? Okay. Okay, man. Thanks, Kent.

Thank you very much. Thanks, man. uh let's see uh we've got uh patrick and philly has a question about true remedy for hair loss patrick didn't mean to steal your thunder you there man hi this is patrick only did you know that many thousands of people will get minor aches and pains and their muscles are joints used therapeutic mineralized yeah that's awesome excellent that was awesome was that the radio shark uh i don't know yeah i think it probably was maybe uh let's talk to sean in florida John?

Yes. Got some sebaceous gland troubles with my brother? Yes. On my testicles, I have swollen, clogged, sebaceous glands. Yes. And? I'm trying to figure out, can you get rid of them, or what do you do? So you've got sort of a nodular scrotum, is that what basically you've got?

How many nodules is it? I mean, is it like, I got like 10? Oh, just 10, okay. A lot of times a dermatologist can take care of that for you. That's not a lot, apparently, from your reaction. I don't think 10 would be a lot. I've seen people that every sebaceous gland on their scrotum is clogged,

and they just have these really lumpy, lumpy hard scrotum. That sounds painful. And it's not, though, usually. Is this painful at all, my friend? No, not at all. Yep. uh is it is it causing any problems in the bedroom is that i mean is your just psychological i'm okay you're concerned about the appearance yeah exactly you know a dermatologist

can take care of that uh i'm not sure that the urologist mess with that i would say darn but i i would probably go to a dermatologist and let them unroof those for you and uh they will can you know once they start it just means that you're prone to it but if you've only got 10 and how old are you uh 32 okay so you've you've on average, what does that work out to one every three years? Yeah, that's not so bad. So if they unroof those for you and get rid of them, you probably won't get that many more before you die.

Okay. Okay, man. I'm going to come back to get rid of them. Yeah, and you probably will get more, but those particular ones won't come back. Yeah. All right, man. Hey, thanks for calling.

Oh, here's one, Jay and Tucson. Let's get back to the vasectomy question. Jay. Yes. Hello. What can we do for you? You're on weird medicine. Well, my question is, I had a bisectomy about a year and a half two years ago,

and now my wife is thinking that I should go and have it reversed, and I was wondering about how complex is that procedure and how painful it, you know, how long is it going to take? Okay. I'm not an expert on reversing vasectomies, but I do know that most of the guys that do vasectomies tell people to not count on them being able to reverse it. The human body is an amazing thing. A lot of people who don't want their vasectomies reversed, they will reverse spontaneously because if you put two pieces of vasdeferins in the same room, they will try to grow together. But it is a microsurgical procedure, and it'll cost you a lot more than having the vasectomy did to reverse it. And it is, and it's not a procedure that's guaranteed to work. You may talk to your fertility specialist about other ways to get sperm out of your body and into your wife's body other than reversing your vasectomy.

There are some things out there that some centers will do. But you can try the reversal. I just don't count on it working, okay? All right. Yeah, and I can't give you the, the exact percentages on that. But I'll tell you what, I'd look it up for you. Just email me sometime at DR Steve202 at gmail.com,

and I'll see if I can get you some statistics on that, okay? All right, man. Hey, thanks for calling. Good luck. Good luck with it. Well, John, you know, we've been talking a lot about testicles already in the first segment. Why don't we talk a little bit about testicular cancer? I think that we can save.

how many listeners you figure we have, Danny, tonight? Four. No, I'm way more than that. On any given Saturday, I'd say you have probably got a hundred grand on you. Okay. Wow.

Okay. Now I'm nervous. I was sort of imagining we were talking to about 15 people out there. Then we will save a considerable number of lives tonight. Yes. Because testicular cancer, this is, one of my issues is that men's health is often of it's not really swept under the rug it's just not talked about um every woman by the time they're 18 knows that they need to get a pap smear and breast exams and every woman needs

knows that they need to do self breast exams of how many guys who are young 15 year olds know that they need to be doing self testicular exams you know that was one of the things we we kind of joked around with pat duffy the other day and uh basically humiliated him in the studio in front of his friends. But, you know, one of the things that we did was a testicular exam on him because he is in the demographic that it would be affected by that. Young men have a higher risk of testicular cancer. This is not an old man's disease. It's the most common cancer between the ages of 20 to 34. And men with undescended testicles, if you have only one testicle in your scrotum, you have a much higher risk of testicular cancer. And if that's never been taken

care of. I want you to go to your doctor and say, look, I've got an undescended testicle. I need to do something about this. But this is what I want everybody to do. Every guy that's listening right now, and I know we've got women listening, but every guy needs to reach down and feel their knots. Now, while you're doing this, the testicle should feel sort of like what kind of an ovoid, an oblate Spheroid is the term for it, but I'm, it should just feel like a smooth, sort of elongated egg shape thing. A large lima bean. And, uh, exactly.

I love the food reference. I love the food reference. Yeah. Another thing I won't ever have to eat. Uh, the, uh, the testicle feels smooth on the front, but on the, if you reach around at the top with your finger like a sea clamp and with your thumb, you will feel this sort of, uh, mushy area. And that is the epididimus. above that there's a tender area that may be a little cyst on the epididimus and then above that will be the cord and now if you feel anything rocky that feels like a stone or a piece of yeah like a aquarium gravel yeah that's stuck to to the testicle you need to get that checked out and when i was in vermont i had a i i always talked about testicular exams with with you know the young men especially if i did uh football physicals i would get a bunch of them at once and make sure I told him about it.

And I had a kid come in and say, you know, hey, Dr. Steve, you told me to check my nuts, and I did, and I've got a place on there, and he actually had testicular cancer. It was removed. He was cured, and he is, as far as I know, still doing well today. So caught early, it's very curable. Other things you may feel in there, do you want to take that, P.A. John? No. Okay.

You may feel a hard balloon-like thing above the testicle, and if you take a flashlight and put it behind your scrotum, And you can see that it's a clear fluid-filled sack. That is called a hydroceal. And you also can feel a bag of worms, and that is a vericose seal, which is just varicose veins above the scrotum. If you have a big old globby bag of worms on both side, you may actually have problems with fertility, and so that needs to be checked out as well. So if you feel anything unusual, have it checked out by your doctor. Yeah.

Okay? You do self-tisticular exams? Yes, I do. You do? That's fascinating. Yeah, every six months. Let's see we got. Okay, how about Todd in Tennessee?

Another vasectomy. This is going to be vasectomy with Dr. Steve tonight. Todd in Tennessee. Are you there, buddy? Yeah, I'm here. Todd. Dr. Steve. Hello.

What can we do for you? Well, recently had a vasectomy, and in fact, the stitches aren't quite healed up yet. And I've got sort of under the right stitches. I've got this little blob. It's almost like a little growing third nut. But it gets kind of pussy, and it leaks out like this clear white-ish discharge thing. And, you know, obviously I need to go see my doctor about it, but it's kind of painful. Yep.

Is there anything I can do to alleviate that pain until I can see my doctor? Is the redness around it? Yeah, it's pretty red, but I mean, they're kind of red anyway, so. Okay, but it's not angry red. No, no, no, no. Okay. And what's the size of it? Right now, see, that's the thing, it'll grow up, and then it'll discharge a little bit.

Right now, you know, it's the size of, I don't know, cashew nut, but it'll get up. You know, there's one more food you don't have to eat. Yeah, thank you. It'll get up, I don't know, twice that size sometimes before, you know, usually it just, it'll just squirt out of the stitches. Lovely. And it's, and it is it, is it, is it pus or does it look like it's clear white as? I do. I mean, it looks like pus to me, but I'm just, it's just like pus to me, but I'm.

I'm not a doctor. You know, it's white and clear. You know, it could be pus, could be spluge. I don't know. Yeah, white and clear. That could be a thing called a spermatocil. It's not impossible that you could have a collection of fluid that's actually coming from the testicle itself. Most of the time you just have cells there, but every once in a while, they'll irritate the tube enough that you'll get a collection of fluid in there.

And that may actually be... Secreating from the area. Yeah, it could be... sperm cells and body fluid. So you definitely got to check it out. Again, I recommend that you get some, you know, your athletic supporter, elevate those nuts so they're not hanging and putting tension on this thing and then put some ice on it as well.

Yeah, you definitely need to get back to whoever it was that did the procedure. Yeah. Well, you mentioned earlier that two pieces of as deference will seek each other out and try to reconnect. Could that be going on? Not impossible, but the easiest way to tell that. is through your sperm samples man you know you just basically you know you rub one out into a cup and they look at it under the microscope and if there's samples in there then you're growing back

to get I mean if there's cells in there you're growing back together if not then you're okay but I would wait until you get the stitches out yeah yeah you're way too early to even be worrying about that yeah if you're having anything coming from the wound itself you got to get your doctor to check it out okay okay so do I need to save it the next time it leaks and take him a sample. Probably not because it wouldn't be viable. Yeah, they'll be able to look at it. When he looks at it, or he or she looks at it, they'll know what it is when they see it.

They'll have seen it 100 times before. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think you need to keep a sample of it. But if you get a fever or redness that's spreading up your body, then don't wait, go after hours and get it checked out. Okay. Yeah, and just regular over-the-counter pain medicines and ice? Yeah, if you can take it, I think ice is great. And if you can...

Don't apply the ice directly to your body. back otherwise you could end up with frostbite of your balls so you want to put something in between that or yeah just put it in put some crushed ice in a in a of of a zip lock and wrap it in a little towel yeah and put it to it okay okay well thanks guys good luck and let us know how it goes okay we'll do thanks for being on the radio all right man thanks thanks thanks all right well we need to take a break uh... eight six six wow one wow is the number eight six nine six nine six nine one nine six nine this is weird medicine with dr

Steve. It's weird medicine. Weird medicine. Some bloody mucusy discharge with Dr. Steve. That's a testicular manslaughter by cattle decapitation, the bumper music. It was definitely fitting given a last segment that we did. All testes all the time on weird. medicine with Dr. Steve and PA John.

Phone numbers 866, Wow, One Wow, 6669, 1969, or you can email us at DR Steve 202 at gmail.com. One thing I wanted to say, P.A. John, a lot of other medical shows, when you call in, they call you back. They wait until the next day

and call you back, and then you're on the air. We're doing these things off the cuff. Remember, we are not your doctor, so verify everything with your doctor. Take our advice how you will we'll do the best we can and and we'll just go from there yeah yeah nothing beats going and actually seeing your physician but and one of the things that we can talk about is how to talk to your doctor or other provider and get them to take you your

complaint seriously that it's one of the problems i see more and more every day when people call me or text me or email me on the internet because i'm on all the message boards and stuff and I get questions. A lot of times the patients will say, I've talked to my doctor about this. They don't seem to be taking me seriously and actually have a serious problem. A lot of times it's how they've approached the problem with their doctor. And, you know, health providers are people too. And sometimes you just have to approach it a certain way, and we can help you with that.

And it always helps to go into the room with what you want to ask them written out. because if you can actually give them a list, give your PA or your doctor a list or your nurse practitioner a list of what you actually want to know that day, it helps tremendously. And a lot of doctors are probably, if they're any listening right now, they're cringing because we all know those patients that come in with their lists. Yeah. But it really is a very effective way for patients to get out what they want to do is just like we have our list tonight, which we've completely thrown away because we've gotten so many phone calls tonight, which is awesome. We weren't really expecting this kind of response. And in that vein, let's go to Ron in Indiana. Ron, are you there?

Hello? You're on Weird Medicine. What can we do for you? Yeah, I got a question. My girlfriend's kind of adventurous, and her new thing she wants me to do is she wants me to lick her ass. And I'm kind of wondering what the dangers or what could happen to me or what's the worst-case scenario or if it's sanitary at all. Sure. Well, it's, no, it's absolutely not sanitary, but very little about sex is.

But it could be enjoyable. It's true. Depends on what kind of dressing you want to put on that salad before you start licking it. Well, as long as don't, you know what, don't listen to him for the rest of the show. If she doesn't have any communicable diseases, for the most part, the kinds of things that you can get from what we call the fecal oral route, or other words, from someone's rear end to your mouth, are things like hepatitis A, so if she's okay there.

But then there is this problem with E. coli and other bacteria like that. I mean, there are a lot of bacteria there that you can be exposed to. I think just give it a try, and if you don't get sick, you're gold. Yeah, but you can also place saran wrap between you and the person, and you can try it that way. Or a dental dam. You can do that if you're really particular about it. Might take the mood away, but...

We are getting so many testicle questions. I guess we need to take another one, Adam, in Ohio. Yes, hello. Hello. Yeah, I was wondering, I'm only 27 years old, and I have this, like, kind of growth on my right testy. It's not like a bump like a viz, but it's more like a kind of a, when you get scratched

and it, like, breaks the skin. Yeah. It kind of leaves a long kind of, you know, like, raised bump. Yes. Like, should I be worried about cancer with that? Like,

I've had a physical, and my doctor didn't say anything about it, but, like, I'm always still worried about that. As your doctor looked at it, have you showed it to him or her? Not,

not, like, specifically, but you did give me a, you know, like a physical, like a physical that. Sure.

Let me ask you something. You say it's on the testes. Is it actually on the scrotum, or is it, No, no, no, it's actually on, like, excuse my language, the ball. Okay, so it's under the skin, what you can move. Like, it feels like it's on the actual testy, and it's like a long kind of, like, if you had scratched and it drew, like, like, a cat scratch. Yep.

And then, like, raised up afterwards. Okay. That's what it feels like. And it's been there for about a year. Okay. And there's no signs of it going away. Most of these things like this are not anything to worry about. However, having said that, I want you to get this checked out.

Okay, if you can take the skin of the scrotum and slide it over this thing and it stays stationary on the nut itself, then it absolutely needs to be checked out. Now, this could have been, you could have some scar tissue there from some vigorous sex, or you may have run into a table at some point and hit your nut, and it may just be scar tissue, but I definitely want that to get checked out. And they can do an ultrasound that will pretty much. diagnose it in a couple of minutes. It's a real simple procedure.

It's a little embarrassing to whip your nuts out and have somebody put jelly on it. And then this, how would you describe that thing? It looks like a microphone, kind of, that they run over your nuts. But it's not painful. It's an easy procedure. Highly recommend it. I would definitely get that checked out, man, okay? Okay.

Can I have a second question real quick? Yeah, sure. My question would be like in any other place in your body, How would you determine cancer? Would it be like a large lump, like a large, like hard lump? Or is it, you know, just anything that's not there before? Dude, yeah, that's pretty much the thing. If you have a lump that wasn't there before, definitely get to check out.

Anything that's odd. You know, if you hear a weird sound in your car, you're going to, at some point, check it out. And if you don't, it's at your peril because something's going to break down in your car. It's the same thing. If you've got a weird lump someplace, y'all just please get it checked out. Don't fart around with that because that's really important, and I want you guys to live a long time.

I've got Harold and Bridgeport. It's got an interesting question. Harold, are you there? Oh, boy. Excellent Harold. Hey, Radio Shark. That was a delightful question. And it was a good question to the bastard.

Yeah. He was calling about sleep disorders, which we need to talk about at some point tonight. Let's see. How about Les? Les, from trucker or Les the trucker. Okay, I get it. When I sneeze, I get something going on.

What's going on, Les? Yeah, I had a coughing spasm real bad, and I had a lot of pressure in my sinus area. And now is what happens, and whenever I sneeze or cough, I get real bad. nose bleeds the gusses blood real bad. Yeah. I have a hard time getting it to stop.

I'm just wondering, could I burst the blood vessel on my sinus passages somewhere? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Actually, the tissue in the very front of the nose is more friable or a lot thinner than any of the tissues. So you actually make sure your nose doesn't start bleeding now. but uh it it you probably did uh break a blood vessel and if you're having a lot of these then you probably need to have again go see your doctor they can actually ablate these blood vessels with uh cauterization jargon alert jargon alert

well well okay they can get rid of this by frying it with an acid how about that or sticking a hot metal well don't scare the guy to death it's not that bad. Basically, they go in and they can numb you up and they can take care of the problem pretty easily. It's really easy to look up into the nose and see where the bleeding is coming from if it's obvious. Ear, nose and throat, let your family practitioner take a look at it or your internist, and if they can't help you, then they'll usually send you to an ear nose and throat guy now. If you're having a bleeding that won't stop, that's a whole other problem. And that's actually a medical emergency though you know if you're just gushing blood and it will not stop i would go

to the emergency yeah i would give it no more than 20 minutes uh the easiest way to stop these course is just put your head back and apply i would lean forward lean forward and apply pressure right on the bridge of your nose yep yeah and if you hold pinch your nose closed and uh you'll form a good blood clot um that should help okay let's go to bob and montana bob are you there you're on weird medicine Bob? Okay. Bob's driving.

He's driving. Bob call back. How about Chris in Kentucky? Chris, are you there? It sounds like the same guy. Chris. Chris and Bob were on there. Hello.

Chris. Hey, how you doing, gentlemen? Okay, man. Hey, good. Dr. Steve, I hate to change gears after all this other talk, but I've got this weird, I don't know if I call it a skin condition, and let me just tell you all I can. Well, rambling too much, hopefully.

Give us the Reader's Digest version. I'm sorry? Give us the Reader's Digest version. Right. Oh, exactly. Since at least puberty, I've put it back, as far as I can't remember, just I've noticed no pattern to it whatsoever as far as eating, time of day, exposure to any kind of different soaps or anything, I'll just get a regular little itch, you know, like you do, reach over and it's crash my arm, and it keeps fishing, and I'll start tearing it up, and I'll get, like, this patch, it varies. from like the size of a couple silver dollars up to like elbow to shoulder area.

And it's just like welps on top of welts in this red rash and it it's just like the dickens. And I scratch the hell out of it, try not to, and like maybe like 20 minutes later, it's completely gone and I scratch hard enough, there should be marks. I should have broke the skin, but I don't. And within like 30 minutes,

it's completely dissipated. And I've had it happen on arms, legs, Sometimes, you know, a couple times a week. Sometimes I go a couple months about it. Does it ever occur anywhere that you can't reach? I'm sorry, go ahead. Does it ever occur anywhere that you can't reach? In other words, in a part of your body that you can't reach?

Middle of your back, that's not really. It's usually, you know, fairly reachable. Okay. And I'll notice that it doesn't spread. Like if my left legs doing it, I'll scratch it, and then, you know, I'll touch my right on for something, and it doesn't necessarily spread. Very seldom.

Okay. A lot of times what you may be looking at, if it never occurs in a place that you can't reach, there's a thing called neurodermatitis, and this is a weird form of a skin itching syndrome that may be caused by nerve endings that are firing. It may be caused by anxiety. It can be caused by a lot of different things, and it's characterized by intense itching. You scratch and scratch and scratch until, and sometimes people will get into this almost craze situation where they're so itchy that they'll just dig gouges out of their skin. And there are some medications.

There's an antidepressant, and I'm not recommending that you try this, okay, but I want you to talk to your doctor about it. But there is an antidepressant called doxapin that is one of the most powerful anti-itch agents out there, and it works real well. You may just be having, there are some people that have sensitive skin that if you scratch it a little bit, you'll actually get hives, and it may simply be that. And that's a hard one to deal with, and again, a dermatologist could help you with that. Yeah, so you may end up having to have a skin scraping where the dermatologist will be able to look at that under a microscope to see if there's any other thing going on. But, yeah. All right, Jerry from Cincinnati, are you there? Hey, why do I say that every single time?

I've got to come up with something else to say when I take a phone call as other than, are you there? Yeah, Jerry, go ahead. I'm just rambling because I'm an idiot this first time I've ever been on radio. Oh, well, that's so loud on this station. I'm just wondering, my girlfriend's

into golden showers. Okay. And she's been asking me to urinate inside of her while we're having intercourse. Okay. And I'm really innocent, and I'm just wondering if this is, if there's any major concerns as far as, you know, some sort of infection or if it can be done and then douche afterwards, and that'll be fine.

Are you otherwise healthy? Yes, absolutely. Okay, and are you diabetic? No. Okay, then here's the thing. Urine is sterile. Very sterile. It should be.

It's normal urine is cell-free. It's just basically ultra-filtration. byproducts of you know body metabolism and it's mostly water it's got some other chemicals in it and you can I think pee freely yeah I'm not aware of any downside of that as long as you're healthy and I don't have any infections and you know other than it may now there may be a change in the of bacterial counts in the vagina because of that and that Maybe back to what we were at the beginning with bacterial vaginosis.

I don't know of any study that shows that there is a relationship between the two. If there's a GYN or a gyne or a gynecologist out there, a urologist that knows better to have them feel free to call in. But I think you're okay with that one. Yeah, I'd say go for it. All right. Excellent. John from Colorado. Hey, Steve.

Hey, man. Hey, look, I got a problem. I've been receiving oral sex for my girlfriend. and first time she asked me if I wanted a prostate massage. Okay. Stuck her finger up my ass. I didn't know what was coming until I started coming. Right.

I've been doing it more often, and now it's gotten to the point where I can't come unless she does it. Okay. Does that make me gay? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. This is, you know, some people think that the prostate is the male G-spot, And I think that was just such an intense stimulation for you that, you know, you've just, you've come to need it. Yeah, to enjoy it more than just regular ejaculation.

I mean, everybody has these stimuli that they require to achieve an orgasm. And now you've sort of programmed yourself to have this stimulation. And you're absolutely, I mean, you're doing it with a chick, right? So you're absolutely not gay. Not that that makes you a bad person if you were. uh let's talk to uh ray the trucker ray welcome to weird medicine hey how they're going tonight dr stick good man a little nervous but we're doing okay yeah genital warts yes and i had a doctor get some of them off they froze them off and they she didn't get all of them i got a female

doctor that's why i said she but when i said something at the physical this year about you know there's three others you didn't get she's like well get that doctor shoals war remover, which is a freezing product, but it says in all the instructions, don't use it on genital warts. Right. Yeah, I'm in favor of some other things for genital warts, and there are some preparations that are particularly made for genital warts, and one of them is a medication called amicamod. And you can apply it yourself, your doctor can prescribe it for you. If they're not familiar with it, it's also called aldera.

there's also a medication called Condolox that you can use. I think the reason that you shouldn't use those over-the-counter preparation is because they could really be pretty caustic to the scrotum. As you know, the scrotum is pretty sensitive, and just putting a caustic substance on there can be a problem. Yeah, the tissue could end up scarring, so definitely would be a little larry of doing the over-the-counter preps on that. Now, yeah, I was just looking here.

I had some stuff on that, but the, Aldera is real easy to do. You apply it. They'll give you a schedule for applying the stuff. And it's a real simple, quick procedure. You do it yourself. The problem with condoloma or genital warts is that they are viruses. It's caused by the human papilloma virus, and viral particles are even smaller than bacteria.

So you can't always get the... all of the growing warts before they come, you won't be able to see them. Now, one thing that you can do that's kind of fun, well, my definition of fun may be different than yours, is to take a little white vinegar, put it on a white hand towel, and wrap it around your slong, and then let it sit there for about five minutes. And when you take it off, all the really white areas are oncoming genital warts, and they'll turn a real bright white. It's called a CETA white reaction,

and you can apply the chemical to that. But I'd go back to your doctor and say, I'm not real comfortable using this over-the-counter stuff. I really want to try to use the prescription stuff. Do you mind writing me a prescription? Does that sound okay, man? Every time I go to her, she finds something good to send me into a bunch of tests over, so, you know.

Well, okay, okay. That's a whole other issue. And I think you're free to talk to your doctor about that, too. I find another doctor. Yeah, you can do that. I had another question about naval hernia repairs. Are you familiar with those at all? Naval hernia repair.

Umbilical hernia repair? Sure. Yeah. What's the question? I had a major one, which was repaired five times now. And I've got the Gortex pad with mylar over the top of that, tucked under both ribs, and now it's coming loose. Any idea of, you know, I went to a special.

He looked at it, and he's going, well, I don't really want to do anything until, you know, your intestines are laying on your kneecaps. I understand that. Actually, John's wife used to do this procedure, and it's one of those things that when you have a recurrent hernia, it gets harder and harder every time to repair it. And they do, once you've had it five times, man, they basically want your guts to be falling out before they go in there again. And then sometimes at that point they still won't do it because it's... It's, again, a high risk of failure. Yeah, we found that information on the Aldera. You put it on at bedtime for three days, and then you rest for four days.

It's really easy to do. And condolox, you apply that twice a day for three consecutive days, and then you discontinue it for four days. Now, the condolox is a little bit more of an intense reaction and actually causes some destruction of the tissue around it. But it heals up normally, and you really should end up with very, little disfiguration after it's over with it is kind of interesting john that there have been some studies that showed uh that patients who have genital warts are at a higher risk for other diseases

right and uh one of those is of head and neck cancer now that's a devastating disease and if you have genital warts and have oral sex uh you can actually uh end up with your partner having a higher risk for head and neck cancer transmitting it right a high lifetime number of oral or vaginal sex partners, which is defined as 26 or more, was associated with a higher risk of cancer. It was three to one. So the, you know, the take-home message for this is don't eat cauliflower. Yeah.

You know, that's basically. Another food reference. Yeah, another food reference. We're full of food references tonight. Yeah, the genital warts kind of look like, the really big ones look like fungating chunks of cauliflower. And it's, you know, human papillomavirus, at least we know where it's coming. from and we can do something about it.

Cervical cancer is basically a sexually transmitted disease. I mean, women get human papillomavirus from their partner, and then the human papilloma virus will cause a non-symptomatic genital warts that may not be able to even be visible with the naked eye, and then over time cause changes in the cervix that can lead to cancer. So this is something that can be picked up easily on a pap smear and get your pap smears every year. Here's why, P.A. John, if the pap smears, 30% of the time will be negative, in other words, will show no changes even when there are cellular changes. So if you get your pap smear done every three years, you may be 10 years down the road before they pick up the change.

And then it's too late because cervical cancer takes about 10 years. it's very slow-growing cancer. Whereas if you have your pap smear done every single year without fail, it is highly likely that this pre-cancerous condition will be picked up easily treatable in the doctor's office without surgery or without significant surgery. And sometimes they can do it just by freezing the area. Other times they use an electrified wire to cut out the area. It's really easy, mostly painless, a little globby afterward, but not too bad.

definitely worth or going through because the risk of not doing it is really high. Benefits definitely outweigh the risk on that way. Absolutely. How are we doing it on time, Danny? We're doing it okay? Okay. Let's go to Rick in Arizona. He's got a problem that we haven't talked about yet tonight.

I'm being sarcastic. Go ahead, Rick. How you doing, Dr. Steve? Thanks for doing this, man. Oh, yeah, man. Happy to do it. I hope we haven't spread too much. I hope you're doing this at least twice a month.

I hope you know keep you guys on thanks man the question I have for you is this I'll try and make it very short brief I have two questions yes the first one is about nuts okay um when I was growing up I played high school lacrosse and I went for the you know the stupid little physical and the doctor you know filled your nuts well I've got like a third nut okay that has always been there Yep. And you know how you can just, when you're feeling your nuts, you put a little pressure on it, it hurts.

Well, the third nut, you do the same thing, it hurts. Yes. You know, just like a regular nut. Yep. I'm 38 years old now. Okay. Could I be, you know, do I need to be concerned about that or just let it ride? How old did you say you are?

38. 38? 38. 38? 38. Yeah, you've gone 38 years with this thing. It is unlikely it's going to kill you. So that's the first thing.

So I think that it's most, I would put all kinds of money out that this is a completely benign condition. Is it above your other nut? No, it's right beside it. It's like to attach to it. Well, here's the thing that I would do, just for your own fun's sake. And then I do want you to see your doctor and have them take a look at it again just to make sure. And just ask them, is this thing okay? Take a flashlight, and if you have a little pen light, that's even the best, and put it behind your nut and try to shine it.

through this third nut and if it is a clear fluid filled sack you'll be able to tell because it'll light up like a christmas tree light or like ets finger did exactly much better much better analogy it'll look like ets finger and if if you see that then it is a clear fluid filled sack called a hydroceal and that's all it is and you really don't have to worry about it i do watch your doctor to look at it and if there's any question about it all again they can do that testicular ultrasound and they can tell right away what it is. Okay. You got a second question?

The next question I have for you, I have like this, I had another physical last year, and it's like a, the doctor called it a strawberry, and it's right on my back. And it's not that big, but I was told, you know, you put a piece of thread around it or something like that, cut the circulation off,

and eventually fall off, and that will be okay. It's bright red. Yep. It doesn't hurt unless if I, you know, if I scrape my back up against something and hit it, you know, or something like that, then it will hurt. It's called a humangioma. Yep. Yep. And it has a little tail on it, or is it what we would call sessile?

Does it look like a dome blooming out of the skin or does it have a little tail on it? No, it's on the outside of the skin. Okay. Okay. And it's flat? Does it have a flat broad base or a thin, narrow base? No, it's like a small, oversized BB, I guess you can say. Okay, okay. So it's spherical, and part of it is embedded in the skin. Yes. Do I have an accurate picture of it? Anyway, yeah, this is benign condition, and they call them cherry hemangiomas because they look like cherries. Yeah.

Another food reference. Excellent. Okay. I'm making myself sick with all these food references. Basically, those things are very easy to remove. They have a lot of blood supply. They're called hemangiomas because their collections of capillaries, and they will bleed like stink if you just cut the thing.

So if you want to have it removed, it's easy to have it removed. Otherwise, not unlike a ribbed condom, it could add pleasure to your partner. So if it's not bothering you, I'd leave it a loan. Oh, it's on your bath? I thought you said it was on your dick. Yeah, it's on my back. Oh, well, that won't add pleasure to anything. Okay, yeah, I haven't removed.

You don't know what their sexual encounters are. Somebody fucking my back or something. You never know. I totally heard you wrong. Sorry. Yeah, you can have that removed or you can leave it alone. If it doesn't bother that. Could I do it myself with a piece of thread?

You can. You can. You can't blood supply. Yeah, you can if you can get under it. That's the thing. If you can get it to actually strangulate it, you can do that. Your doctor's got easier ways to get rid of it than that, though. That takes several days, and then you've got dead piece of skin hanging off your back.

Yeah. Well, the one thing I did do is the exam like 10 minutes ago. Thank God everything just feels so smooth and so great. Yeah. Awesome, man. Okay. Excellent. We saved a life.

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