Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 479 - Her Knee, Ahhh!

Episode Date: November 12, 2021

Dr Steve and Dr Scott discuss: Dr Steve on "The Creep Off" with Karl Hamburger and Vincent Paulino "I can't hear you, I have garlic in my ear!" mRNA and pregnancy Healthy PEN15 talk How to check a hernia Daily tadalafil use Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do you call an ad for fireworks? A spark plug. If you just read the bio to Dr. Steve, host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103, and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fess, you would have thought that this guy was a bit of, uh, you know, a clown. Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus.

I've got subalibes stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbound, exacerbating my incredible woes. I want to take my brain out and plastic width of wave, an ultrasonic, ecographic, 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 doing, then I'll have to go insane. I want a requiem for my disease. So I'm paging Dr. Steve. Dr. Steve. From the world famous Cardiff Electric Network Studios, it's weird medicine. The first and still only uncensored medical show

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Patreon.com slash weird medicine. We're doing a brand new show. It's just mostly Tacey and me, because people were clamoring for Tacey to come back, so it's Weird Medicine, the special edition. And we have a show about once every 10 days. and then I'm throwing up some stuff that you can't get anymore. And hopefully you won't throw up when you hear it if you catch my dream. But we just had Big Joe's Big Show, which is no longer available on the Internet.

And we had our 100th anniversary, which really was one of the first shows you were on, right? Yep. Because you were one of the contestants for the hand of the lovely Big Joe. Yep, and I lost. You surely did. you lost to magic mic oh god spoilers everybody that was funny as shit though

I played that the other day for my sons they're 16 and 18 and nothing gets through to them you know they're just too cool for the room and they were just he-hawn so that's a good one so number 100 it's called

prepared to be disappointed you can just skip forward to the to the Big Joe stuff that's at the end of the show and yeah it was Big Joe dating game and then if you listen to to Big Joe's Big Show, it has, are you smarter than an eighth grader, where Big Joe did some modification?

And she's hilarious because it's like, one of the questions was, what's eight times eight? And she looked at me like, I'm just stupid. Well, now, Steve, everybody knows how to do that. I'm good at multiplying. Well, first off, okay, learn to say it. And then she said, everybody knows eight times eight. There you go. We do now.

We do now. That's right. So anyway, check that out. Patreon.com slash weird medicine. We're having some fun over there, putting some things up. You can't get anywhere else. And don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. Simplyherbils.net. You got anything new on there?

Not yet. Working on it. Are you really? No. No, you're lying. I'm on. Okay. And listen.

So we've got a couple of stories. We've got a bunch of phone calls to do. We will do those. I just, this is the stupidest fucking thing. You know, I'm a little bit of a rascal, and I have been very naughty. And I've been calling this show called The Creep-Off. Now, I've been on The Creep-Off, and this is sort of my MO as I'll go on these shows, and then I'll start effing with them. So I did that with D.C. on screen, my buddy's Jason and David C. Robertson, Jason Goss and David C. Robertson, who have the, you know, D.C. sort of nerd show about Superman and Batman and all the D.C. properties, the movies. But I get all my news from them on this stuff. And, of course, I was on their show, so then I immediately have to start, you know, prank calling them.

and then, you know, we used to be on wood floor liquor show, BPS radio called the Radio Freaks. And then, of course, I had to crap on him. I've told that story a million times. And then I was on the creep off, and then I had to start messing with them, too. But these people, just like Jason and David and Brian, I consider them friends, so it's not like I'm being malicious, but I can't help myself, apparently. So they have this guy named Tucker Dixon that calls in. seems like a very nice fellow.

He's very clever, and he does the recap. So if you've never listened to The Creep-off, it is a true-crime podcast, but it is a comedy true-crime podcast. And they tell these stories about the most horrible people out there, and then the audience gets to vote on who had the worst one. And if you lose five times, then you have to spin the wheel of consequences. They're horrible things that they have to do. Like once Carl had to watch the whole show cuties on Netflix and report back on it. And now Vinny's got one that he lost, and he's going to have to do a polar dive into Lake Erie in the middle of February. So there are consequences to this stuff.

Anyway, that's kind of what their show is, a comedy, true crime podcast, but they also take voicemails and see if you recognize this voice. The last one. Well, and remember the guy's actual name is Tucker Dixon, who does the recap. From May. Well, I'm no one's about making things entertaining. I'll tell you that, but I tell you what, that old Tucker Carlson feller, he, he ain't too entertaining. I don't like him. But I do, I tell you, I do like that old Dick Mastikin, Mastikin.

He's trying to say Dick Masterson. Whatever. That dick feller, he's wild. He's wild. I'll tell you, he's wild filler. All right. Well, I hope you have me again. Thank you, ma'clock.

Okay, so I have a feeling I know who that was. Yeah, who was that? And that person should be attending to patience right now. Instead of leaving us for Dick L's voicemail. Oops, busted. Voicemails like that. It's wrong with that guy. Come on.

How would you like to be in that hospital right now And you're just listening to the creep off I recognize I recognize that voice Well he also is very proud of a Google review he left That has 5,000 views Well this is true I did a Google review of the venue that they did Who Are These Podcasts Live

And I said I went there to see Vinnie Paulino's stand up and then I really enjoyed him yelling Carl sucks, Carl sucks over and over again. And the Google sent it to me, says, your review is catching a lot of people's notice, so I sent that to him. It's pretty funny.

Which he said he was there to see Vinny's stand up. Yeah, it was at the place where you guys had the WATP show, right? I don't think so. I didn't recognize the name of the place. It's not even the same place. He's just leaving reviews. I think he's just leaving random reviews. I don't know why he's so bored.

Speaking of boards, is there what I can report him to? Yes. I believe there is. Although Tennessee is a little bit looser about medical care, I suppose. If Dr. Steve was here right now, I'd give him a big old hug. I love that guy. He's a mess. I love you, Dr. Steve.

I love you, too. Are you ready for a scum brain car? Okay, anyway. So, yeah, check out my buddies, Carl and Vinny on the creep-off. anywhere that you find podcasts. It really is fun. It's got a lot of audience participation. And sometimes people will vote politically.

Like if they really just want Carl to do something horrible, they'll just vote for Vinny for no reason. So it's not always on the merit of the case. It's pretty funny. So anyway, there you go. So that's your old pal being naughty. And I thought I could keep that up a little bit longer because they played one or two of those

and didn't realize who it was. but then Vinny's a pretty smart guy, so anyway, all right, what do you got? So a couple things. Actually, we saw an interesting one here on the news the other day, but evidently this lady reported to the emergency department with some garlic stuck in her ear. In her rear? In her ear. Oh, in her ear. Actually, into her ear.

So she comes in, she's got a complaint of ear pain, but no fever, no chills, no nothing. And so, of course, the ER doc says, okay, well, let's look in there. And he said he saw this thing. He didn't recognize it because it was garlic in her air. Right, garlic, but it had been there long enough to be kind of yucky looking with. And he's like, what did you do? And she's like, what? And he says, what did you do?

And she says, what? And he says, you've got garlic in her ear. And she takes it out and says, I can't hear you. I've got garlic in my hair, man. Oh, shit. Oh, my God. Okay, it wasn't even a joke. It was something I saw on Bozo the Clown, literally when I was six years old, and I still remember it.

But it wasn't garlic. It was a cherry. In 1938. Yeah. It would have been 19, oh, God, 1961. WGN, Bozo the Clown. I believe Bob Bell was Bozo the Clown back then. Oh, cool.

Now, that is something that I'm 100% sure nobody else knows. No, unless they lived in Chicago. That's true. And if you lived in Chicago, yeah, that was my brother and I that used to hit the air horn behind Jack Brickhouse at the club Cubs games. Oh, was that you? Because back then their broadcast booth was just wide open. It was wide open. And you could get right behind him and Jack Brickhouse and turn around and go, what are you damn kids?

Oh, how funny. Oh, that's good stuff. Yeah. It was a long time ago. Wrigley Field was awesome. But anyway, go ahead. Well, as you'll say, I love Wrigley Field. It's one of my favorite places.

Yeah, it's still a great place. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, so interestingly, so the gal was having an air ache, so she thought since it was a known in medicine as a cure-all, well, she would just crush them up and stick it in her ear. I saw the, so the, like garlic. Garlique. So the, it's, in the Indian, the garlic is a, it's a Sanskrit word. called Mahoud's Mahoud's M-A-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-U-D-H-U-D-H-A-M-A-H-O-U-D-H-A-M-H-A-M-H-A-M-H-A-M-A-R-A, which translate to cure-all.

So she understood Hindi. Yes. And knew the garlic word for Hindi was cure-all. So she decided to put it in her ear. Grand in here, yeah, I don't think it turned out so well. Yeah, no. I mean, we used to have a play. down from us I don't want to say their name but it was like one of these whole food

pharmacy type places and they said that walnuts were good for your memory because a walnut looks like a brain yes I've heard that and then they said carrots are good for your eyes because when you cut it at an angle it looks like an eye looks like an eye right and beans were I guess good for your kidneys oh yeah yep An asparagus, good for erectile dysfunction, I would guess. Oh, well, there's another one for you. Or bananas. That's what we call country humor there.

So I found the Hindi word for garlic. Lahasun. La H-Soon. Okay. Lh-H-S-U-N. L-H-S-U-N. I'm not saying it right. La-S-U-S-N.

Okay, there you go. There you go. So is that how it was spelled for you, L-A-H-A-S-U-N? not even close no interesting no this is sanskrit oh sanskrit oh yeah yeah I don't have

so that is interesting that was that close though it is very close yeah but it actually is very close pretty close pretty close let's see what it is in in Punjabi oh they can't pronounce it

but it's like lasagna it's L-A-N with a little squiggly after it so it's pretty close yeah what the hell we're doing languages of the world And here's the word of the day, it's garlic.

Ustoroi. Ustoroi. Do you know what language that is? That is the worst bit ever. That's close. Not even close. It's Romanian. Yeah.

That is close. No, it's not, because Romanian is a romance language. Polish is a Indo-European language. But let's see. There's cutting hairs here. Well, this is a big difference. Let's see what it is in Polish. Let's see what it is in Polish.

At least I didn't say it was Spanish. That's true. here it is in uh polish chosnik chosnek well that was close yeah that's exactly the same how about welsh oh here you go coxag coxic what okay this is not a good uh welsh translator coxed so no it's not good it's terrible all right anyway moving on from that that's terrible at least we recognize one a bit is not good and i mean i just came up with it on the fly anyway see that's how i do it. Right, Patrick, Michael? All right. Let's see here. He's shit on me the other day on his show, but probably don't need to say any more about that, just because it's just why. Anyway,

somebody called me about MRNA vaccines in pregnant persons, and what they said was that they had heard that 89 percent of women who had an MRNA COVID-Vos, vaccine had miscarriages. So I went and looked up the article. This is the original article from the New England Journal of Medicine, which is not a shite journal. And it's, so this is the just, we'll just go through the abstract, because I'm not going to go through all the data tables.

And so just many pregnant persons in the United States receiving messenger RNA coronavirus disease called COVID-19 vaccines, but data are limited on their safety. in pregnancy. So, yeah, we need to know, is it safe? And so they looked at a bunch of stuff. They did, they used data from VSAFE, the VSAFE pregnancy registry, the vaccine adverse event reporting system, and they just used that, mine that data to characterize the initial safety of the MRNA COVID-19 vaccines and pregnant persons.

Now, this is not a great way to do science. because, you know, anybody can report anything to the VERS system. It's supposed to be a screening test. It's supposed to put up red flags, and then you do an actual study to determine whether the, you know, whether there's something there that you need to pay attention to. And in this case, they're not using that second thing. They're using the first thing. So this is really just more of a screening test than anything else.

And so what they found was there were 35,000. V-Safe participants, age 16 to 54 years of age, identified as pregnant. A 54-year-old pregnant woman, she was probably pretty pissed or very thankful, one of the other. That's not going to be one of those, oh, well, I'm pregnant kind of situations if you're 54 and pregnant. And the number one cause of adverse reaction was injection site pain, more frequently among pregnant persons than among non-pregnant women. And headache, muscle aches, chills, and fever were reported less frequently in pregnant women than in non-pregnant women. And then among about 4,000 people enrolled in the V-Safe pregnancy registry, 827 had a completed pregnancy. There were 13.9% were pregnancy losses. 86% were live births, mostly among participants vaccinated in the third trimester.

Adverse neonatal outcomes included preterm birth in 9.4% and small size for gestational age. In other words, they're low birth weight in 3.2%. No neonatal deaths were reported. And the calculated proportions of adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in persons vaccinated who had a completed pregnancy were similar to incidences reported in studies involving pregnant women that were conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, there weren't as difficult to compare the two cohorts, but they could not detect a statistically significant difference

between women that got it and women that didn't. Gotcha. Now, it says here among 221 pregnancy-related adverse events reported to the VA-E-R-S-V-A-E-R-S-VERS. The most frequently reported was spontaneous abortion, in other words, a miscarriage. That was 46 cases. Now, what they didn't do in this was compare that to the normal, and I don't have a denominator either, so it's very difficult to see. So let me go down to the discussion and see if they said anything,

whether there was something, but it was nowhere near 89%. So let's see here. Yeah, I can't. We can't compare that. So what they're, remember, these things are screening tools. This is not the kind of science that we would want to do to know conclusively how safe these vaccines are in pregnant persons. But what this does is it shoots, they shoot up red flags or they're the canary and the coal mine. Okay.

So if all of a sudden you get a whole bunch of reports to the VERS that this one thing is happening, then they'll look at that more closely and see if they can pin it to the vaccine. And one of the ways that you would do that is by doing a, you know, a placebo-controlled study. And you would have to, that would be a tough one to get through, you know, an investigational review board. Yes. But if you're really pushing it hard on pregnant people because pregnant women are more at risk of having adverse events from the virus, then you probably, you know, there's a compelling reason to at least do the stuff. But what they're saying is early data. Remember, this is early data from V-Safe, V-Safe pregnancy registry, and the VERS do not indicate any obvious safety signals with respect to pregnancy or neonatal outcomes associated with COVID-19 vaccination in the third trimester of pregnancy.

So continued monitoring is needed to further assess maternal pregnancy neonatal, in other words, the newborn baby, childhood outcomes associated with maternal. COVID-19 vaccination, including earlier stages of pregnancy and during the preconception period. So, in other words, people who are in first or second trimester or got it right before they got pregnant, you know. So anyway, it says, meanwhile, the present data can help inform decision-making about vaccination by pregnant persons and their health care providers. So it helps a little bit. They're not seeing anything drastic or crazy.

Good. So, there you go. And so if anybody tells you, oh, no, they've proven conclusively that this thing is causing this or that in pregnancy. Really, this is about the most up-to-date article I could get. This was from June 17, 2021. And so we're not really, we don't have anything conclusive. What we have is a strong suggestion that it's relatively safe.

But you have to make that decision for yourself. I can't make that decision for you, particularly in a situation where we don't have full information because we're still in the early days of this, which seems crazy because it seems like we've been living forever. But when it comes to the science, the science is still early days. Well, the good news is they didn't see any immediate red flags. That's right. So at least we got that going for us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they say in the editorial, it's notable that more than 100. 100,000 pregnant women reported having a COVID-19 vaccination, only a small fraction were enrolled in this pregnancy registry to see if there are anything. So if you're pregnant, you want to enroll in that, that would help the science. It would be cool. Yeah. Talk to your OBGYN about getting hooked up in that.

All right. Anyway, so that's it. What do you got? Well, are you ready for the... Now, my allergies are just killing me. Are you ready for the penis talk? Yeah, always, always ready for penis talk. So I guess it's, it's, we saw a report as National Penis Day.

Excellent. Which is always a good thing. Now, yes, it is in November. I'm absolutely, yes, it is in New Zealand and yes, it was September 4th, but. Okay, so that's their spring. Well, but yeah, it was, who cares? Every day should be Penis Day. So National Penis Day?

Yep. It's in New Zealand. So what were they celebrating? Well, it was kind of a sketchy-looking article, but I guess they like to get naked and stand in formation and form a giant penis, and that's how they... Well, it says here, research has proven that New Zealander had bigger penises than Australians. I guess that's a bum of contention between that, too. I think that's probably what it is. I'm sorry, Dr. Steve, go ahead.

No, it's okay. I'm just reading from some Kiwi newspaper. says Australia may beat us in a lot of things. Cricket football league, netball, whatever that is, weather, amusement parks, to name a few. But there's one thing they can't beat us on. Oh, I get it, I get it. And we think this one will hurt them the most. A study conducted by mandatory, whatever that is, went to the trouble to find out which country has the biggest and smallest dicks in the world.

And the news ain't great for our brothers across the Tasman. The average erect penis size for New Zealand males is 5.5 inches, which is around what we determined was the average of the world, right? Yes. Oh, it says the global average. Was it for Australians? We hear you ask. 5.2 inches.

Sure, it's not even one centimeter difference, but in this game, you take what you can get. So let's see who has the biggest penises in the world. Okay, it's green on this matter. Oh, goodness, it's mostly South America. Bolivia, 6.5 inches. Well, I would be right at home in Bolivia, actually. Okay.

Wow, okay. Ecuador is 6.9 inches. Inches, not centimeters, doctor. No, no, no, inches, yeah. I'm right at Ecuador, so I do okay on that one. Venezuela, 6.7 inches. Hungary, 6.5. Now, when it comes to average, then the United States is 5.1 inches.

What? United Kingdom 5.5, those damn Brits beat us again. Russia, 5.2 inches, but they're using old Soviet rulers and stuff, so they're just wrong. I'm sure that the Russian penis is massive and meaty. And then the ones that are really small, I'm not even going to, it would just seem like I'm punching down. But you can look at it, just Google penis size around the world. Yeah, Puerto Rico, 6.3 inches. So ladies or, you know, guys who are so inclined, head to South America.

Wow. The whole continent of South America is above average. even Argentina's 5.8 inches. And then Chile, let's see, they're 5.7 inch. Yeah, the whole continent. That's very interesting, isn't that? That's intriguing. Why would that be?

Good for them. Okay. Enjoy those big meaty penises. Yeah, maybe it's their relative proximity to the equator. You think that's what it is? Oh, the centrifugal force is pushing their penises out. That would be my guess, the gravitational force. I tried, this was really stupid.

I probably shouldn't admit to this. But, you know, your iPad or your iPhone has a measuring app on it. No, you did. I did. But then when it came out 9.8 inches, I was like, wait a minute. This thing doesn't work. I wanted to take a screenshot of it, but then, you know, who are you going to show it to? Yeah.

And then if you've got to reproduce the results, you're going to have an issue. Well, that's true. That's true. Any double-blind study, you're going to have a little trouble with that. All right. Well, you want to talk about penis health? Yeah, penis health. Yeah, I like penis health.

Penis health is good. You know, just a couple things about good penis health. What affects some things, what affects your penis health? A couple things. Oh, wow, that is very interesting. Please tell me more. Well, number one, being able to urinate comfortably, which is pretty important. which is pretty important, your ability to...

What does that even mean? Well, you know, for those of us who have big old swollen prostates, if you were unable to voyage... This is a marker of poor penis health. Correct. But that's really prostate health, isn't it? Well, but, you know, if your penis isn't working extremely well, then you dig a little deeper in a well, you know,

because it's not usually just because your penis is not working. It's usually because something else is affecting. the function of your penis. Yeah, yeah. If that makes sense. I guess. Yeah, because, you know, you think about it, I mean, unless you have some trauma to the, to the organ or the tissue or something that's, you know, maybe your hormones and maybe diabetes

and maybe smoking, something else affecting your penis health. Yeah. So, all right. That's kind of where I was. If you say penis health one more time. Are you going to give me a bill? No. All right.

So ability to get and maintain an erection. Okay, so this is a marker of penis health? Yep, yeah. I'm going to do that shockwave therapy. Yeah. The thing is the only person... Your friends are the ones that are administering it. Yeah, right.

That's the problem is the only person that I know of that I could convince to buy the machine is Chanda. And I'm on hand... Well, you know, actually, maybe that'd be okay. Yeah, it wouldn't be a bad thing. I've got to talk to her about that. I'm going to try that because I know people who have done it that have gotten really good. results but nobody in this town has one of those and see if i get her to buy it uh the machine and then we do it to people over at the office um i get it for free so i'll be in there just

shocking the hill out of my penis yeah i could see you doing that and enjoying it yeah um hormone levels can affect penis health yeah yeah low testosterone of course um age age is certainly something that can affect your overall penis health, and mostly because just as you age, gravity takes over. Yeah. Laxity in certain connective tissues, and certainly hormones tend to go down a little bit, and certainly medications. Okay.

Let's give us a few. Medications such as. Now, when we're talking about penis health, this is a male-oriented article because really for your penis to be healthy, it needs to transmit. fluids from inside your body to outside your body. True. And what these people are talking about is erectile health. Okay.

You know, right? I mean, right now they are. Yeah, I could see that. So that's a male sort of oriented definition of health is, can I get it up and jam it in somebody? You know? You know, now that you point out, you're right, this is way more, not towards the It's not having anything to do with the health. No, so, yeah.

Because I could be just all, but as long as my pee, you're okay. And I can get an erection and I can, you know. But even if you can't get an erection, as long as you can pee, okay, that's really the most important thing. No, no, no, right, right. But I'm talking from this perspective. As far as I'm concerned, you know, I used to, one of the first times I was on Opium Anthony, we were talking about a guy who was brain dead. I mean, brain dead. On the ventilator, heart's still beating and still on mechanical respiration, but he was deceased.

He had no brain function and no blood flow to his brain. But he still had blood flow to his penis and his wife wanted to get pregnant. And so she, you know, jacked him off to completion and collected semen and then was going to, you know, inseminate herself. And it just goes to show that even brain dead, you know, guys can get an direction and, you know, complete the transaction. So not so surprising. Hmm. Anyway. Very interesting.

And the other. I am too smart. I am to smart. I am to smart. I am to smart. I am to smart. Okay. I was expecting a little more from that story, but that's okay.

Well, we're not done yet. I didn't tell it very well. We're not done yet. The final thing we would mention would be hygiene. Yeah, we're both just flem as shit today. This is the worst show. It is. Well, there's not what we can do.

As far as us just grunting and coughing and clearing our throcks and stuff. Go ahead. No, yeah, but real quick, though, and then we'll wrap it up. So hygiene is important. Of course, you wash your penis and growling often to keep it clean. Poor hygiene, and here's the parts you're going to love. Yeah. Can cause a buildup of smegma.

Yay. Ding dong. Give yourself a bill. An oily maloerous, irritating substance. Malotorous. Maloters. And if the smegva builds up, here's another 10-cent word. It doesn't smell worse than rauclette cheese does.

No. No, nothing does. I would rather smell smegma than rauclet cheese. Yeah. We did that in our house one time. The friggin' place stunk for two weeks. Who did it? I did.

Oh, you did? I mean, we did Roclette here. Okay, okay. So, by the way, if you want to enjoy Rocklet in your home and you don't want, you want the same taste, but you don't want to deal with the smell, get Gruehier. Just a fun fact from your old uncle Steve. Gruyer tastes the same, does not smell the same. One year's. That's close enough.

Fabulous. Yeah. So if the smegba builds up, can cause inflammation to the adjacent skin, this can be uncomfortable and can cause balantus. No. Balantis. No. Balantitis. Balanitis.

Balanitis. Balanitis. Keep going. Try it again. Try it again. Balanitis. Balanitis. A condition with a head of the penis becomes red and in.

Try it again. You want to try one more time? Balanitis. No, no. No, balanitis. Blantness. Balinitis. No, it's not balinitis.

It is. No, no. It absolutely is balanitis. That's hilarious. Balanitis. Belonitis. It just sounds better if you say with it. I'm going to submit that to WATP for a cringe of the week.

Belonitis. It sounds better. If you say it like with an accent, it sounds like balanitis. Yeah. Yeah, you know. You have balanitis. You have a balanitis, my friend. I suggest you, keep it to yourself.

Yeah, really. I hope you have a penis all of your life. That's about all the hell the penis dog I got. Really? Yeah. Oh, okay. I mean, I can make some shit. Man, you are one pathetic loser.

Can you tell I got a new soundboard? Yes, and it's just fucking great. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some. asshole on the radio. All right. You ready? Let's see what I got here.

Uh-oh. You're doing well? I'm going to. Oh, sorry. Let's try that over again. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm an idiot. Hey, Dr. Steve.

I hope you're doing well. Was that, okay, that's Tracy from Louisiana, but was that a clown horn? It sounded like a clown horn. Hang on. Listen to this at the beginning. Wait, no, I didn't get it all. I didn't get it all.

So, here we go. Hey, Dr. Steve. I hope you do a clown horn. Let's go it. I miss Tacey. Hey, I've got a question for you. Two-part question. Yeah.

I had to go have a physical the other day. Okay. And other than the nurse practitioner are being really, really cute, she wanted to check me for a hernia. Okay. Two-part question. What you do is you just give her a hundred bucks and have her say that she did it. Yeah, and you're fine. Give her hundred bucks.

Of course, hey, for that. First of all, okay, if you haven't listened, go back. I'll say, hey, for that it would probably cost more than a hundred. books. I'm thinking more like 500 books. Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. Other than her looking down and just looking down and saying, oh, poor little thing. When she reached down to check me for hernia, this time she reached on top of the side of my penis and sit up under my ball bag and everything and had me call because that's first

of my ever been checked up top. And second part of the question is, can you get hernia's other places around your groin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, good question. Yeah, hang out. He was going to say something. place I've ever been checked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. So what they're checking for is an inguinal hernia. The fact that there's a name for it, you know, an adjective in front of it tells you that there are other places that you can have a hernia.

All hernia really means is that something is passed through into a part of the body where it's not supposed to be. Right. So we may look for the exact medical definition, but anytime. So when you have a. diaphragmatic or hiatal hernia, what's happening is the stomach is passing through the hole in the diaphragm where the esophagus is supposed to go and is now blooping up above the diaphragm. So it's not supposed to be there.

Right. So now that's called a hernia. Yep. In an inguinal hernia, you can have a direct hernia or an indirect hernia. So a direct hernia just bloop straight out and that's where she was feeling. Right, right. Straight out through the abdominal wall. And then an indirect hernia goes through the rings where the vasdeferins, you know,

comes from the testicle and passes up through the body. And there's two little rings there of tissue. And when they open up, you can pass abdominal contents through there. It could be intestine. Sometimes it's just abdominal fat. And we'll pass through there. And then it'll end up in your scrotum. So the way that we test for the hernia,

is to invaginate the scrotal tissue. So what you do is you have the person stand in front of you and they're relaxed. And then you take your finger, put it at the bottom of the scrotum, and then it's sort of like you're inverting a glove. You stick your finger up, and so the scrotal tissue kind of wraps around your finger. And then you can trace the Vazdeferins up into the body cavity, and sometimes you can feel that external ring and you have them turn their head

because you don't want them coughing on you. That's the only reason we have them turn their head because otherwise they'll just cough in your face. So you have them turn their head and then either bear down, but a lot of people don't know how to do that, but everybody knows how to cough. So when they cough, you'll feel the hernia

of bumping into your finger. Now, at the same time, you can feel, because your finger's so up far, you know, invaginated in that canal that you should be able to feel the direct hernia too. Right. But you can feel it from the outside. Gotcha. And you're just feeling in the groin.

When we say inguinal, we mean groin. Yep. And you'll see a lump or a mass there. And when you bear down, it'll get bigger. And people say, well, it's not bothering me. Why do I need to do anything about it? Well, because one of these days, if it ever twists and can't, what we call reduce, in other words, it won't go back up the canal.

then that's a medical or a surgical emergency. And you can die from that. And so it's always better to do this electively than to do it emergently because elective surgery has less complications than emergent surgeries too. Now, yeah, so there's all kinds of different hernias. Did you look up the actual medical definition of hernia? No, but I can. Well, that's okay.

I'm temporizing over here, waiting for you to do that. Hang on. I was hanging on your every word. Now, I was just thinking of other type of hernius. You got intervertebral disc hernius. Yeah, that's right. You can get a herniated disc. That's a hernius.

Dr. Steve should know a lot about it. Yeah, I know all about that from personal experience. That's where the disc between the vertebral bodies bloops out between them and ends up in a place it's not supposed to be. Here's the dictionary definition as a condition of which part of an organ is displaced. and protrudes through the wall of a cavity containing it, often involving the intestine at a weak point in the abdominal wall, but not always.

So there you go, okay. No, go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, no. That's that. There was, when I was in medical school, my anatomy professor told us about a guy that they had, and he was extremely morbidly obese, and he had a big giant stomach,

and it had herniated into his scrotum. And not his, when I say his stomach, I mean, literally his stomach. I'm not talking about his abdomen. Oh, the actual stomach. Oh, wow. And it had herniated into his scrotum, and every time he drank coffee, his nuts would get hot. That's for real.

I'm not kidding. It's a true story. Well, this is hard. I know, poor little fellow. I know. That's how he knew he had a problem. Lord. He was so big that he couldn't tell otherwise, but he went to the doctor and said, every time I drink coffee, my nuts get, like,

Boiling hot. Oh, my word. And they figured it out. How bizarre. Yep. All right. Let's see. Here we play this.

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Okay. So my situation is I've been taking one a day for about seven years now. I started out getting it prescribed from a former urologist. Eventually I found out it was just as cheap to order them online myself from a website. Uh-oh. I know the original dose was 2.5 milligrams a day. Okay. The ones I order come in 10 milligrams, so I just break them up in two and I take them every other day.

And I haven't seen any change in how it impacts me sexually. Okay. So my concerns with this, I'm obese, and I'm sure the daily Seattle is needed because of my weight issues. I mean, that's obvious. But currently in 5'9, 300 pounds. Wait, is it obvious, though? I don't know about that. Not necessarily.

Okay. I'm 41 years old. I'm able to have huge weight loss swings, but I always regain it every time after the fact that I've lost close to 100 pounds on three occasions over the last seven years. My primary care prescribed me scimita or fentamine, and I can always say, get the weight off, it never stays off once I'm off the drug. Yeah, that's one of the problems with those drugs is when you quit them, if you go back to your old way of eating, because Phentermine, what he's talking about is just, it's basically an appetite suppressant.

Right. And it is a scheduled drug. It's a stimulant. And when you go back to eating the way that you did before, the weight comes back plus 10 or plus 20, and that's the problem with it. So when they came out with the fen-fen that was fentermine and fenn-fluramine, the idea at that time was that you would stay on it for the rest of your life. Okay. Not unlike people who are now doing Suboxone or buprenorphine naloxone for the rest of their life.

And the problem was with the fen-fen, of course, that it caused problems with heart valves due to this model. molecule called serotonin, it doesn't matter. But it caused problems, so they couldn't do it. They took the fenfluramine out of that mix, and they put people on fentermine. And they tend to give it to people until they reach their target weight, and then they take them back off of it again. Okay. Well, if all you're doing is handing out pills, then you're not changing the behavior, then you're just going to gain your weight back again. Plus some.

You'll rebound. So what I highly recommend is people, if you're going to do things like that, like fentermine, I don't have a problem with it, particularly if you're as heavy as this guy, is he needs some help. Sure. Is to get on something. I'm, you know, I'm not pushing the Noom. I won't even give out my, you know, my link to the Noom thing. But Noom is a psychological program that helps you understand why you eat the way you do

and why when you lose 100 pounds and you gain 25 back that you just keep on going until you gain it all back again, you know. Yeah. So, you know, when you start. getting 10% above that weight, you've got to intervene then, or it's, you're never going to get anywhere. But anyway, so let's hear what the rest of this is. Oops, sorry. I take Seattle, since I order them online, kind of around the system.

Yeah. Can Seattleus possibly delay diagnosis or hide an unknown heart condition by mass game blood pressure problems? I'll give you a good synopsis on my recent medical history and readings. Before and throughout all this, I've always had good blood pressure reading. Well, okay, I think we can just enter this. discuss this in general. Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, which was the first, you know,

phosphodiasterase 5 inhibitor, was originally developed as a blood pressure medicine. We do use it for what we call pulmonary hypertension. This is high blood pressure between the heart and the lungs, which if it gets bad enough and the heart can't pump to the lungs because the resistance is so high, it can be a a terminal illness. Yeah. So there are people out there that take 20 milligrams of Viagra

three times a day for their pulmonary hypertension works really well. So the interesting thing is that they did a heart failure model in sheep and when they gave them Cialis, which is to Dallophil

is, you know, kissing cousin of Cildenipil, at a dose similar to what's used to treat erectile dysfunctioned people, they observed that Cialis restored the heart's ability to respond to adrenaline, and that improved its ability to pump blood, even though they had congestive heart failure. Wow.

So they, you know, this article says that, you know, because most heart failure medicines slow the progression of disease and lower the probability of cardiac events, almost none of them reverse the heart failure itself without surgery or medical devices. So they're looking at these drugs to see if maybe they could do something like that. So, yeah, it's possible. The thing is, who cares? You're on it. So when you mask high blood pressure by taking a medication that decreases your blood pressure,

that's the same as just decreasing your blood pressure. Yeah, you're treating your blood pressure. Which is what you want to do anyway. Which is what you want to do. So if your primary care wants to know what your baseline blood pressure is to see the effect, what they'll do is have you stuff. taking it for a week or maybe even two weeks and then come in and get your blood pressure check.

And if you're a bigan, you've got to use the right size blood pressure cuff. So a regular, like if I put a pediatric cuff on me, it'll read high. Yeah. If you use a regular adult cuff on somebody whose arm is big enough, I don't know how big this guy's arms are, but big enough so that the Velcro doesn't meet, it'll read high. So if you have a too small of a cup for your arm size, it will read high. So a lot of times we'll use a thigh cup on people with big giant arms. Gotcha.

But there are other ways to check your blood pressure too. But yeah, they need to do that. But yes, yes, masking is, that's one term for it. When I take my low sartin and it brings my blood pressure down, am I masking my low blood pressure? No, I'm treating it. You just don't have diagnosed eye blood pressure, but there's a way to do that. Right on.

And that's to do a drug holiday and then get your blood pressure. and then get your physical exam done off of all that stuff. Okay, that makes sense. Well, hang in there, brother. Hopefully he can stay on a good, healthy path. Absolutely. And, yeah, and continue with those big, meaty erections with that daily Cialis. We love our Cialis.

Oh, let me throw this out there. Make sure what you're getting from those online places is the real thing. I was thinking the same thing, yeah. Because we, early on in this show, we had people calling in, And they were ordering things like Alprazolam, which is the brand name is Xanax, or Loresopan, which the brand name is Ataban. And they would order it from this website that said it was from Canada. But when they got the package, the stamp was postmarked Seychelles, which is an island off the coast Africa. And I guess it is.

Gosh, my geography sucks. Where in the hell is the Seychelles? I don't know. S-E-Y, S-H-E-L-E-S. Coming from the Manchu. Saying ugly things about me saying. No, well, I check on it, though. Okay, it's northeast of Madagascar.

So, all right. Yeah, 994 miles east of Kenya. So it was postmarked the Seychelles, and it didn't seem to work the same way. And so they actually took them and had them analyzed, and it was an antipsychotic. It was Thorisphonic. jeez louise yeah so you got to be careful where you're getting it from make sure that the reputable how do you do that's hard to do i was going to ask you that dr steve what let's just say someone's got a medication that's terribly expensive here and they and they see the website

that's in canada or wherever and they order it and they get that medication's in here can you take it to your pharmacist and have them do an analyzation can you can you can you take to a local school or something i don't know usually the pharmacist can't do that But what you're looking for is a – not a sticker, an online sticker or a logo that says National Association of Boards of Pharmacies, verified Internet Pharmacy practice site seal. Okay. And the National Association of Board of Pharmacy is NABP, and the seal is called a VIPS seal. VIPS, okay. So let me see if I can look at one here, what a VIPP seal looks like.

And then, of course, they don't give you a freaking picture of it. But, and then if it's a Canadian pharmacy, you could just call them. Just pick up the phone and call them and make sure they're in Canada. Right on. And that where you're sending your prescription to is a real pharmacy. Right on. And then it's them. Okay.

You know, and Canadian pharmacies operate by the same rules. You have to have prescriptions for things or they're not going to fill anything. There are some online pharmacies that maybe are in countries that operate with different rules and they'll send you stuff without a prescription. Okay. And I've known people who've done that. Now, people say, well, what about these online Viagras and stuff like that? Well, it used to be.

You remember when Opium Anthony first started, there were these places sell, oh, the little blue pill, but they would never call it Viagra. Right. And then when you looked at the ingredients, it was Yohimbean and a horny goat weed and stuff. Which is not Viagra. It was not. It was not Viagra, but it kind of led you to think that it was. Works just as good as the little blue pill or whatever.

Well, then what happened was some pretty smart people figured out, hey, if we live in a state that allows telemedicine, and now all states do, right. We could do most of this over the phone. Okay. Take a history, kind of do a half-assed physical. You can listen as someone alert and oriented. or is their affect, okay, are they sound depressed, that kind of stuff?

You can do some screening tools. And if that meets the criteria for an office visit in that state, well, heck, we can write a prescription and send it to you. Okay. And so that's where a lot of these places now, that's why you don't hear those commercials for that fake stuff anymore. They can sell the real stuff now. Gotcha.

That makes sense. So Viagra, Seattle, those kinds of things can be done that way. The other tip that I'm going to give to people who are on Viagra and Seattleis is go to your local compounding pharmacy. There still is no branded version of a sublingual, in other words, under the tongue, lozenge for Viagra, Cialis, or Lovietra. So they can compound anything that's not on the market. They can't make you a pill because that's on the market. That would violate the patent, but they can make the sublingual tablets, and a lot of times you can get it at a tenth of the price, because they can buy pounds of a sildenophil powder. Okay.

And make a trocar out of it. Yep. A trough car. You mean a troche? Trocar. Everybody go look up trocar. I can just Google it right now and see what Dr. Scott wants you to do. He wants you to do a trocar of Cial of Cialis.

and then we'll talk about it next week. Yeah, so before we get out of here, don't forget about our Patreon. Patreon.com slash weird medicine. And Dr. Scott, you and I, we need a new theme song for that. But I don't want to get rid of the slaves theme song because, you know, he made that for us 15 years ago,

17 years ago. We didn't even know each other then. I just knew him from Ron and Fez and just asked me, hey, would you do a theme song for us? And he did something so great. Yeah, it's fabulous, yeah. That stupid PA John and I were both like, Well, hell, we've got to do a real show now.

Yeah. We can't just fuck around with this thing because we got to, we have to bring our game up to this theme song. Seriously. No, I'm with you. I'm not with you. I'm not with you. And Sherwin's sleeves, we talked about this as real name, Sean Hurley. He writes with Steve Conrad.

They've done that show, Patriot. Oh, my gosh. They're doing a couple other shows. And I'm absolutely convinced that the songs that the guy sang in Patriot were written by. by Sean. By Sherwin's sleeves because they sound like sleep songs. If you want something hilarious,

go see Sherwin's sleeves plays Minecraft. So the old man and he can't do anything, well, what are these what are these slimes? Are you my friend? And then they just kills him.

It's hilarious. So very good. He's a brilliant, brilliant dude. I love him. And I don't love the many went man, but I do love Sean Hurley. But anyway,

so I want to honor that. So I'm wondering if we could do like a Primus version. And when I say Primus version, I mean, we're going to be out of tune sounding. Oh, no promise, yeah. You know, well, I know, like their version of the South Park theme

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