Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 522 - Humeral Jug Lift

Episode Date: September 18, 2022

Dr Steve, Tacie, and Dr Scott discuss: How to get an extra year out of your life Anti-aging advice: Blue Light Anti-aging: phosphatidylserine Anti-aging: rapamycin? Aging and pain A nerd's cause of rectal pain Poison ivy (Rhus Dermatitis) Cystoscopy fun Holly from the Panhandle's weird bone fracture reaction Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net  (now with NO !vermect!n!) (JUST KIDDING, Podcast app overlords! Sheesh!) roadie.doctorsteve.com (the greatest gift for a guitarist or bassist! The robotic tuner!) Also don't forget: Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now while he’s still cheap! "FLUID!") noom.doctorsteve.com (the link still works! Lose weight now before swimsuit season is over!) CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, mystery guests! Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website. It's simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net. And that noise you were just hearing was Dr. Scott finally putting his headphones on. And I want to say, happy birthday to our network coordinator, Carter Fletcher.

Yeah, I guess our birthday's on the same day. Haven't you been telling him happy birthday? Like, Oh. Oh. Was this a joke I didn't know about? See, I need to be... I was waiting for someone to say something,

and I didn't think it would be my co-host. I mean, I've been thinking it for weeks now, but... It is my birthday, though, which is so goofy. Once again, I thought I was going to be 68. I've been telling everybody I'm 67 for the last six months. and I thought I was 67. Then I don't do the math in my head. And then I did do the math, and it's like, wait a minute.

So I got a free year again. It's the second time I've done this in my life. Happy birthday. Free year. 67 fucking years old. I'll say it's 67. It's a lot of math to do in your head. I was 50 when we started doing Opium Anthony.

Wow. You know. You were old then, too. Yeah, that's true. He seemed old when we first started hanging out. That's been a long ago. It's old. As before babies.

Yeah, you guys will never be old. That's right. You'll just be forever young. You're right. You'll always be forever young. Younger than you. True. True.

Until I croak and then you'll catch up eventually. Eventually, yes. So, yeah, I'm sure you'll enjoy that. Yes. God damn it. It does seem like the old, we seem to be aging much more rapidly than before. That seems to be the case. You know what I mean?

So I'm breaking normal protocol and I'm having a beer. Skull! Skull! That sounds like. Anyway, all right. Let's do some stuff. What you got? But now we're not doing grossest story.

Thank God. You know, the homework was getting excessive. Well, y'all were getting tired of losing. No, no, no, yeah, that's true. We need to talk about who won, though. Probably me. And I believe, I believe it was. Let me double check.

I think Dr. Scott won two weeks in a row. Let us see. They just like you better. Okay, so Dr. Scott had, oh, wait. Oh, wait a minute. Now, see, when this happens to Carl and Vinny on the Creep-off, which, by the way, creepoffroast.com, they're not going to be broadcasting the roast live, but there will be video available afterward, probably on their Patreon, but it'll get out eventually.

I was hoping you all could watch me die on stage live. We need to be practicing. Oh, I've been practicing. I've been practicing. So if you remember the, and Dr. Scotch, you need to bring up who we were playing. for her. Gotcha. So Dr. Scott brought a guy with massive scrotoledema.

And Tacey brought one that I called the P dollar sign percent at sign pimple. So it was someone who had a cyst. It was a periclitoral cyst. Yes. And then Lydia brought someone that smitten. smelled like fish and their semen also smelled like fish. They smelled like fish from every secretion in their body. And the vote is in.

And at one time, Scott, you were ahead by quite a bit. Yes, of course. But now with, let's see, with almost 50% of the vote, Tacey wins. Oh, did you lose, Scott? Oh, pussy pimples. Oh, I think that. I'm sorry. Mr. Scott came in second with Skortle lymphedema and Lydia came in third with fish jizz.

It's not like we had an overwhelming number of people voting, but still. But, yeah, this happened at the last minute. And when this happens with Carl and Vinny, one of them is always complaining that there were bots involved. I don't think these were all four of them, all four bots. Right, right. I don't think these were bots. So who was Tacey playing for? I demand a recount.

Carla? What's in it? You were playing for Carla Finch. You were playing for Carla Finch. The one person who's a dress I don't have, so I'll email her and I'll get that. Well, you send me an email that I need to send her her gift, and what does Carla win? Oh, that it's good. No, I don't have the music.

Ah, shoot. I suck. I suck. Oh, no, well, I can use this music. So Carla wins, a weird medicine. vacuum bottle with a street value of $25 today's. That's not bad. They're really cool.

They are really cool. Worth playing for actually. So anyway. Look at you. Congratulations Carla and Tacey. Sean, we got ho-dood, brother. I'm just telling you. And we'll have a new game

in the next, I don't know, a couple of weeks. I think they were getting tired of me winning. Is that what it was? Because you won one time? I think so. I was on a streak. That's some streak, a streak of one. But you did bring in a disgusting story that time. Yes, I did.

Yes, I did. 82-foot tapeworm. And, you know, I'm sure it didn't hurt that, you know, I elaborated on the life cycle of the tapeworm, which made it even worse, and the guy was shitting out segments. And, yes, of course. Well, I skewed this last one, too.

Yes, I feel like I've been hoodooed. Sean, we've been who-dood. Well, that's part of it. I get to add my part to it. Ooh-dood. So anyway. All right, very good. So that was fun.

We'll do that again next. And maybe next week, Lady Diagnosis will be here with PA Lydia, and they're going to talk about moderate-sized breast implants. Then two weeks after that, I have another friend who has breast implants that could not be called moderate. And then we're going, and then two weeks after that, Lainey Spyser got us one of her clients that has implants that you could only be described as just monstrous. Okay. Okay. And that way Lydia can get a whole spectrum of opinions about it.

One of them is going to say that she wished that she hadn't had it done, one of the three. So that'll be very interesting as well. So, and this will be, I think this will be a. an interesting series for anyone that is considering getting breast augmentation. So that's coming up over the next six weeks, basically every other week for the next little bit. Cool. Okie-doke. You got any stories for us?

Well, I do. And I've kind of put them towards the birthday boy today. Uh-oh. So, um, oh, no, they're not bad. They're not bad. So I've got one first of all that's describing things that can, uh, accelerate the aging process. Okay.

Specifically, something that you're attached to. Uh-oh. Blue light therapy. So the blue light from your smartphone may be to blame for your accelerated aging process. Well, but I don't have accelerated aging. According to you, right? No, I don't. I mean, I don't.

Do you know any other 67-year-olds that look? To look as good as me? I don't know anybody. But it looks like, it looks like the, those blue LED lights. Dude, I have, at 10 o'clock, I have all my screens set to turn the blue light, the blue light phosphors. Well, the phosphors, that's how old I am. The blue LEDs off on all my screens. The illumination of, evidently.

It helps you sleep better, too. And in the morning, if you want to wake up, turn the blue lights back on again. And it really does help. It helps me anyway. You know, we've talked about this. That's the old pineal gland. Yeah, well, we've talked about this for years and years. You know, I've always battled awful insomnia.

Really? Awful. I didn't know that. Oh, my God, yes. Wouldn't you use some stress less? Oh, I do. Okay. Yeah, that actually does help.

That's the one thing I save it. And if I, you know, if it's midnight, one o'clock and I can't go to sleep, that's what I take. But, you know, for years. Poping one of your own pills. I know. Like a Elvis. Well, that's why I have my Elvis cocktail. I have the fatigue reprieve to.

get me going on in the morning and stress less to put me at bed at night. It's all Elvis. It's my Elvis concoction. Yep. But I know I've had it forever. And, you know, I just always thought that having my television on a night was good to soothe me. But it really is. It's the worst thing to do. That's the worst thing you can do.

And then you fall asleep and it's still on. And then it invades your dreams. Tacey used to sleep with the TV on. And I had to get used to that. I used to sleep with the love. on so I could read. And the greatest thing that ever happened for me, for my sleep, and sharing a bed with this one, because she couldn't stand having that light on, was, you know, an iPad or the Kindle.

Right. Because I now turn it to, when I'm reading a book, I have the background is black and the words are white, and it hardly illuminates anything. That doesn't keep, that doesn't wake you up. When you turn it on, I first turn it on, I know it does. Yeah. Because I can't seem to get that opening screen to be dark. Oh, I remember that iPad Pro you had that I called Sputnik.

You turned Sputnik on and the whole room illuminated. Oh, my God. Well, it was awesome. That was old Purple Drink made me buy that thing. He was my medical assistant, and he was very technologically advanced, and everything he bought. bring it in, you'd go, Dr. B, you know, take a look at this. And I would have to buy it immediately. He cost me so much money.

He was hilarious, yes. Yeah, we've got to get him back. What's he doing now? His problem is, is that his schedule doesn't work with ours. He works, like a real job. Anyway. So, yeah, so, well, so you're doing everything you can to not increase your aging, right? Yeah.

So all these stories today are going to be about anti-aging. Is that what this is? That's okay. The first one is for aging. The second one is anti-aging. And it's evidently there's a pill, and you will probably know the pill. Okay. Stupid computer.

A pill I can take to not age? Yes, yes, yes. I'm all in. I take true niogen, which is nicotinamide riboside. Oh, do you? Yeah, we talk about it helping. We're helping to stave off melanoma. Yeah, we took take it.

Thank you. Remember last time the woman called in and said that we talked about a pill that you could take to prevent cancer? Is that what it was? Somebody sent me a text through our voicemail line at, what is it, 3477664323, and said, I bet that's what it was. And so it was, yeah, it was nicotinamide. So, yeah, so you take that. What else do you take? You know, I take, I take phosphatil serine.

Yeah, which has been shown to help with brain function, which is kind of interesting. I don't think I take glutathione. Do you? Yeah. I try to take a couple of healthy things in addition to my, you know, my fatigue reprieve to get it because it's a straggling. Yeah, so phosphatil serine,

I remember this from biochemistry is a phospholipid which basically means that it has a charged side and a non-charged fatty side that is fat soluble

so they're components of cell membranes and they play very key roles in things like cell signaling and really in regard to, this is where the anti-aging part comes in, to a function of the cell called apatosis. Now, people will look at this word and they'll say apoptosis. That's not correct. It's apoptosis.

It means falling away of leaves. And what that really means is programmed cell death. Right. So it's a very clever sort of use of Greek, the image of life. leaves falling off of a tree to talk about, you know, cells dying. And so it also is a pathway for viruses to get into cells via a thing called apatotic mimicry, which is where, you know, they use that pathway to get into the cell, and then they can take over the cell and then have it die and then release copies of themselves.

So that's interesting. I'm wondering if there are good studies. And, you know, as long as it's safe, I don't care. I think, you know, the reason I found out, I was reading about the HPA excess and this phosphorylstaring does help with, I guess, keeping the brain imbalance. Brain fog specifically. They used to make it from cows. That's what they would get it from cows, and they stopped doing that because they were worried about

prion disease. Pryon disease being bovine spongiform encephalopathy. And humans, we call that Jacob Kreitzfeld disease, which the weird thing, we should talk about prion sometime. Well, we can do it now. They're just proteins that can self-replicate or cause other things to fold the way they do. We don't really know. They're not alive. They're farther down on the chain than even viruses are.

And they may be some of the, you know, they may be surviving prototypes of some of the first replicating molecules that ever existed on Earth. But so they don't respire. Once they start, we don't have a treatment for it. You know, that's a frontier of infectious diseases figuring out how prions reproduce and how they kill people and kill cows or, you know, they call it scrappy. when it's in sheep, I believe, if I remember correctly. Yes, yes, yes. But anyway, so now they make phosphatidil serine supplements out of soy, which is perfectly safe. Yeah.

So, yeah, I think there's a pretty good research. I'll look it up while you're. Yeah. Well, the FDA in 2003 gave phosphatidil serine qualified health claim status, allowing labels to state consumption of phosphatidyl syrin may reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive dysfunction in the elderly, along with the disclaimer, very limited and preliminary scientific research suggests phosphatidyl syrin may reduce the risk of cognitive dysfunction in the elderly. The FDA doesn't do that just every day saying, yeah, you know, you supplement guys, you can make a claim about this. So there's enough data to at least give them that. Now, the FDA says there's lack of scientific agreement, but there was enough data to allow them to say this may do this.

Because they'll take stuff off the shelves if they make claims that they can't back up. Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure. So that's why your stuff, I'm sure. Well, talk about that. There's certain things you can say about fatigue reprieve that you, and then certain things you can't say. So what are some of the things you can't say? Well, you cannot say anything about diagnosing, treating, healing.

anything like that is it's a supplement period because there's no there's no research that I've done for my formula but what you can say is that for individual components of it right that have been research but not for for anything that we do you know not for you know FDA makes it difficult to market stuff it does which is probably good no I think it's fair yeah no I think it's fair I think it's fair I think if you're going to make those specific

claims you there you need to have proof yeah for sure Sure. You know, the FDA approves where our stuff is produced and manufactured, et cetera, et cetera, but will not, will not, and rightly so, approve it as a medication because, well, I don't have $150 million to. Well, they do pull stuff off the shelves to make sure that what you say is in it, is in it. They had a big scandal that someone was selling, you know, natural cockpills, and it turned out that they had by Agriot. Genius. Well, this stuff works real good. Wow, look at this. is all natural. Yeah. Oh, shit, Sherlock.

Oh, my God. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. Yeah, hilarious, except for the people that are on drugs that are contraindicated with Viagra that could cause them an early demise like nitroglycerin. Yeah. And that they were taking this stuff because it was quote unquote natural. Yep, yep, yep. You know, that's the problem.

That's why the FDA has to be vigilant about this stuff. Yeah, they need to. Yeah, we need oversight. Some of us more than others. Well, shit, Dr. Scott, I'm going to start buying some phosphatidil syrian. I'll get you that. I'll get you that for your birthday old buddy. No, hell, I just bought some.

But it seems to help. Honestly, it does. And I think the early you start it, the better off it, which leads us into my next topic of conversation. Good. How about that? You could take some even though where you're retired. You don't need it much anymore. Yeah, she doesn't need to think.

No, she didn't need to think. She's retired. What have I going to do today? You get so stupid when you're not working. It's amazing. Watch Channel 5 or Channel 11? I'm not sure what I want to do when I retire. Usually golden girls till noon.

I love it. Well, that's because you're an idiot. Seinfeld's on a lot during the day. Well, that's a good one. And friends, always on. Man, you are one pathetic loser. It is. It is.

And it's not. It's awesome as what to do. You're just taking some time to just chill for a while because you haven't been able to chill for how many years? I got to fit-fo it. I've got to figure it the fuck out. That's right. Didn't we figure out you might have created fit-fo? Is that possible?

That happened at a meeting. Yeah. I think it was a joint effort between me and some of my old counterparts. Okay. But I did say, I don't remember exactly who came up with it, but it was a joint effort. Yeah, okay. But that may have been where it started FitFo. No, we started FitFo.

Yeah, yeah. Figure it the fuck out. I love that. That's as good as Snafoo. I mean, you know. Snafoo is just so brilliant, you know. Situation normal all fucked up. And at work, you know, people would be having trouble or whatever.

And the answer was, I don't know, you're going to have to fit foe it. Yeah. I'm sorry. Instead of Googling it, you just got a pit foe. Fit foe it, though. It's redundant, though, isn't it? No. Figure it the foot out it. Okay, so you're thinking too hard about it.

Just being an asshole. Yeah. Just being a turdard. Just being my normal ass and on sale. A curmudgeon. He is the curmudgeon. What else you got, Dr. Scott? Well, one other thing, speaking of the aging process, which you're doing so elegantly and eloquently.

As he so well. He's so well states, because he looks great. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, so anti-aging stuff. Okay. Rapamycin. Who? Rapamycin.

Okay. Tell me. It is. They're showing in... God, you actually did show prep today for my birthday. That's the first time in... Just like 17 years. He's been doing show prep lately.

No. I've been sending him stuff. I found a huge scrotum all by myself. Oh, that is true. Now, you did do that. That is true. I found a clitoral. Once I, yeah.

Pimple. Yeah. Okay. Rapamycin, the most promising life extension drug. Okay. So I wonder if maybe we need to try some of this. What they've shown is that in large doses, which you would technically typically use in chemotherapy treatments that has a lot of adverse side of it. Yeah, it's a macrolide.

Yeah. But in very small doses, what they've shown is it does. So macrolide being. So when I heard the word rapamycin, I'm thinking erythromycin, azithromycin. Oh, no. These are macrolide antibiotics. This is a macrolide. I'm looking at it.

It's a macrolide exhibiting potent antitumor and immunosuppressive activity. Yikes, be careful about just taking this over the counter. Oh, yeah. No, totally. So talk to me. Well, it's just they talk about it. It's a cell growth inhibitor and an immunosuppressant that people typically take when they're going through chemotherapy for certain cancers.

But now what they're showing is in very small doses and starting it earlier seems to be... So microdosing. Yeah, microdosing, the rep... I've got other things I'd rather microdose if you don't mind. They need that the truth. But I guess in these studies they're showing that and fruit flies, that it actually helps

to slow cellular death in the aging process. Cellular death being... Apatosis. Apoptosis, I think it's X-A-Sate. Shit. So, yeah, very interesting. Well, yeah, I did not know that until I was looking through some of this birthday stuff. But, yeah, evidently, it just says that there needs to be more research.

Oh, shit, yeah. I'm not taking this stuff. We're not telling anybody to go out and take this medication off-label. But we're saying, there may be some things to help us with them. I am looking at an article in the, oh, okay, the journal aging. It says rapamycin for longevity and opinion article, and it's got a lot of research in here. So I will go through this.

Cool. And next time we get together, we will discuss rapamycin. How about that? Sounds good. Let's put that on the, yeah. Okay, here we go. In addition to rapamycin at an everillemus, the anti-aging formula of metformin aspirin aspirin ACE inhibitors,

angiotensin receptor blockers. Well, I'm on those. And P.D.E.5 inhibitors, excellent, like syldenafil, aka Viagra, each of which can prevent or treat more than one age-related disease. Well, there you go. Interesting. Okay, yeah. So, well, let's table rapamycin.

I'll put that on our notes for next week. Yeah, and let me do some research on that. I'll let you know what I'd find out. That's very interesting, Dr. Scott. Well, thank you. Happy birthday. Good job. There you go.

That's a good present. It is a good present. Ways to live longer. Just be frustrated with shit for that much longer. All right. You are a liar, actress. Go to f*** out. All right.

Thank you, Davy Day. Here we go. Nope. Nope. Nope. Here we go. Number one thing. Don't take advice from somebody.

S on the radio. Brand new sound board. Sorry, everybody. All right, you ready to take some phone calls? Yep, and we've got some live ones, too. Oh, we do. Okay, well, let's do the live ones. Do a couple of live ones.

Let's do one. Sure. Here's Barb Parrish. What about something for aches and pains as you aid? Yes. Okay, you want to take that one? Yeah, I'll take it. I think a couple things we talked about, a couple of shows back.

One would be frankincense and Boswalia for inflammation. I'm a huge fan of that. A. More than turmeric. B, I'm a huge fan of turmeric also. I take both of those every day to work on inflammation because I have... How much to exercise? Well, you know what?

Okay, so to take one step back, even more importantly for the aches and pains and inflammation is identifying something if it causes you to have inflammation. So stopping that first, like... Give yourself a bill! For me, things that cause G-O-U-T, which we don't use the word. The gouch. it's the worst thing ever it's terrible but I'm trying to

avoid things you show them a cross oh god it's worse it's the worst but you know things that just cause you inflammation so those are some things that I think are reasonable

you know people over the counter stuff like Advils and Tylenol's and stuff aspirins etc you just have to be kind of careful sometimes if you have gastric issues yep the older you get

the non-steroidal's not so great go ahead taste So I've noticed in the gym, pushing a sled, all of a sudden, my knee hurts. Okay. So why is that? I didn't hurt my knee. No. And it's not both my knees, and it doesn't hurt when I do, like, little jumps and stuff.

Probably Patellofemoral syndrome. You want to talk about that a little bit? Or just, you know, until you're tracking. Why, in general, does stuff just hurt when you work out? Now, my trainer's like, well, hell, that's a 50-year-old knee right there. So what do you expect? Give yourself a bill? We need to give him the opposite of a bill.

Okay, so talk to me. Well, okay. There's a certain exercise that you can do for this, but go ahead. Why, so Patella Femoral Syndrome, you can get some swelling. Tell them what it is. Well, it's a swelling, really, of the underneath the patella, and it's a tracking issue. Okay, no one knows what the patella is. Okay, so your knee kept.

There you go. What will happen a lot of times, especially we see it in females, as the, tracking, so the kneecap does not move up and down through the tibule kind of notch like it's supposed to. So it starts to glide out of the space. That's right. And what will happen is that causes inflammation underneath the kneecap, which we call conjure Malaysia. And that can cause aches and pains, certainly. And then, you know, and one of the things that... So there's kind of, there's a track in there. And this thing, the knee is supposed to flex and extend and the kneecap is supposed to stay right in the middle of it.

And it'll get off to one side or the other. And that's not the way it's supposed to be. Nothing else. Right. On it hurts. It's just that one movement. Do you notice going downstairs that you have it from time to time? Sometimes coming up the stairs. Okay. Well, maybe something else. Does it hurt on the inside, outside? I don't remember. I'm just bitching about it and moaning about it.

I don't remember. I'll have to pay attention. You know, the other thing, but if the trainer was right and it's a 50-year-old niece, she could have a little baker's cyst in the back of her name. Well, that's true, too. Tell them what that is. Yeah, a lot of times with an arthritic knee, you'll get little cuts inside the knee joint itself, and little bits of fluid will push out, and they typically go into the back. Elastic inside, a more fibrous outside, and it bloops out and makes these cysts. And it goes to the place of least resistance, which is a soft part, which is the back of the knee, instead of the front of the knee, typically.

And you get little fluid pockets in the back. And what that does, it doesn't seem like much, but it does. It stops your leg from extending normally, which causes the knee to hurt, calf to hurt. It really creates some issues. Just hurts when I do it. And then when I don't do it,

it doesn't hurt at all. So there are exercises for these things. Well, I'm not exercising to get rid of a pain when I'm exercising. Okay. You know what? That's reasonable. I think so. But the problem is if it happens under exertion,

now it may happen under not exertion later. Yeah. And if it hurts under exertion, we think tendinitis too. You know, typically that's what I think is. Yeah. If it's only hurts in that one movement, it may be a shoe, it may be just the way you're doing it. I'd just change that. Yeah, and that's the other thing is when you're pushing those sleds, yeah, try rotating your hip to the right or the left and your feet in and out and see if that makes any difference.

That'll be actually very instructive. It only happens when my foot is turned south. slightly inward or slightly outward. Well, I do tend to be a little bit pigeon-toed. Yeah, and it certainly can cause some patello femuric syndrome. Yeah. So the bottom line is, A, find out what's causing your inflammation pain if you can. B, if you can tolerate certain supplements, make sure that you're, you know, you don't have any allergies, et cetera, so.

But I'm a huge fan of tumor. And if you have specific problems like this, like Tacey has physical therapy. somebody yeah physical therapists are amazing yeah it's just over one exercise yeah right right yeah first thing I do is stop that exercise I mean absolutely because so you don't want it to turn into a thing where it's bothering you all today he actually listened to me usually he's like oh yeah it hurt so good but today he he I pulled it instead of pushing it and it was it was much much better good yeah yeah good well somebody's listening you ready for another question yeah well let me tell you that exercise so um

One thing that also happens when you get older is stuff that you normally could do every day can wear on your body over time. And in my case, I thought I had ass cancer. I had developed this suddenly, this horrendous rectal pain that felt like someone was taking a Phillips screwdriver or a knife and just jamming it up in my, in my rectum. And to the point where I got one, it's so awful, I got one of my colleagues at the hospital, who's a surgeon, and I actually went to him as a patient, and he got me up on the table and shoved his finger up my ass, which I would not undergo lightly. And it wasn't, there was nothing there. It was, you know, so you know what it was, was

Fisher. No, it wasn't even a fisher because it didn't hurt when I when I moved my bowels man. It was probably just a thrombosed internal hemorrhoid. From sitting on the

John for too long playing Magic the Gather. Oh, my God. What a nerd. That's because you're an idiot. I mean, man, you are one for better loser. Yeah, sitting on the pot playing Magic, the Gathering Arena, which if anyone wants, well, what happens? And I was talking to my 17-year-old because he and I play together. I played magic since right after it came out.

And for those that don't know, it's a collectible card game where each card changes the rules of the game. And it's really a fun game. And there's millions of dollars to be made in it, at tournaments and stuff like that. Not for me, but, I mean, it's crazy. And they, so I was talking to Beck about it. And he said, yeah, you know, you just say, oh, I'm just going to play one more game.

And then the next game is like 25 minutes long. And that's what it was. And I quit doing that. I'm fine. So it took about a week of taking non-steroidels and shoving hydrochortosone, lidecane, and promoxin up my ass. Yeah, I never take my phone into the bathroom. I think it's disgusting.

Yeah, well, this is my iPad that I sleep with you with. Oh, that's even better. That's even better. Magic the Gathering. But if anybody wants to play me online in Magic of the Gathering arena, anybody's listening to this, email me. Apparently, I mean, my name on there is apparently not. Germaine, you have to somehow send a, I haven't

figured it out yet, but there's a way that we can befriend each other on there and then and then play against each other. So I would love to play my mono red agro dick, man against any of you folks out there

that want to play. So anyway, there's... How funny. I'm sure. I am so smart. All right. Let's move on. Where are we? Yep, I've got another one if you want one.

Okay, yeah. Well, I was going to say the next question is apropos because it's about adult ADHD. And I'm like, I don't remember what we're talking about. All I'm thinking about is my next magic, The Gathering, match, now that I brought it up. Oh, my God. No, I don't have anything about ADHD. No, I do. I've got Taylor Adventures.

Here's a question, why do my symptoms from exposure to poison I get worse as I age? Oh, yeah. I avoided as much as possible whenever I can. get the symptoms they just get worse each time it seems what do you think well everybody's immune system

is different some people can eat the stuff and then all of a sudden it starts to affect them it used to kill me I used to

sling blade for real when I was a kid to make money when I was like 14 yeah I'm biscuits and mustard and poor little failure

but I would actually sling blade and you would sling blade poison ivy up in the air too and it'd get all over you and I would be covered in blisters and just be itching and just miserable and one year just quit

happening. Now I had a friend of mine was at like a band camp or something it was a counselor and the kids had made this bonfire and they'd thrown poison ivy on there so poison ivy the antigen is contained in an oil and that oil is heat stable and when they did that

people were inhaling it and stuff and they got really sick so that was bad and let's talk about some myths about poison ivy people will get it on their skin and they'll say oh you know don't touch it because it'll spread it doesn't work that way

if you've washed your skin since you were exposed what really happens is that if you get 20 parts per billion in say on your elbow and you get two parts per billion on your wrist the elbow part will and it's called delayed hypersensitivity reaction the elbow part will bloom first and then it will work its way down to your wrist because that got a lesser exposure and so it looks like it's spreading but it's not really you got all the exposure at once you just got more at your elbow than you did at your wrist or whatever.

People will say, I can just walk past it and get it, and they may not be wrong. On a very hot and still day, the volatile oil on the poison ivy will create a cloud of, you know, outgassed poison ivy antigen. And you can walk through it if you're sensitive enough to it and get it and not ever even touch it. Oh, I'm so sensitive to it. If I can, I see a picture in a book, I get it. Yeah. That's awful. Yeah.

But I don't know about, as you age possibly, drier skin, you don't have the oils on your skin that are protective. Maybe, you know, maybe his immune system is not as robust as the ages, and that makes him a little more sensitive to it. Yeah. It's called Ruse sensitivity, R-H-U-S, and we really just don't have a way to desensitize people to this yet, and dogs can bring it to you. They're not affected by it.

but they run through it and then you pet them and then you stick your hands in your face and then you beat your meat then you got an olive you know yeah then it's like oh my god and then you get it everywhere so you know

don't do that oh my god hey do you have some and the rash is not contagious people think that the fluid in the blisters is contagious it's not that's just a hyper-filtrated serum I still wouldn't lick it though

no I would you would I hate this stuff I'd get off Taylor says yep that's me so yeah so the thing to do

if it happens I was Taylor that asked the question now that you know that it's doing that immediately call your primary care and get a

as long as there's no contraindication to it get a steripred dose pack which is prednisone or dexamethosone methyl prednisolone, whatever, some steroid dose pack get on it quickly, and that'll usually

knock it out before it gets very far. But doing a five-day pack may not be long enough. I would usually recommend a 10-day pack. But oral steroids, again, if there's no contraindication, will almost always break a poison ivy attack or any delayed type hypersensitivity. And there's not a lot of, there's not a lot. If you get it bad, no steroids are really about your only option. Yeah.

Yeah, they really are. Sad music for Doug Lewis. Sad music. I don't have sad music. We'll think of sad music. Okay. He said, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott, I found out about an hour ago I may be getting a cystoscopy in my near future. Oh, you'll be all right.

Oh, no, he won't. No, he'll be fine. No, you'll be fine. He always, he's being nice. He's trying to not talk you out of it. It's going to suck. But you've got to have it. But you got to have it.

I hear that since you and I had it. What is this? Okay, so he's going to, excellent question. Thanks, Tase. You're welcome. What he's talking about is he's got, he may have had blood in his semen or for some reason they want to directly visualize the inside of his urethralum bladder. Okay, so they did that to you, right? Yes, and me.

The same person. And what we were talking about was back then. They would just put jelly on the end of this thing and then jam it up your urethra, and the jelly was supposed to numb it up, but that just made them feel better. It didn't make us feel any better. It felt terrible. What I've been told is, subsequent to that, is that they are now instilling the urethra with numbing gel and then letting you sit for five to ten minutes before they put the tube in.

And that's better. So one thing I would like for you to do, who's having that done? Doug Lewis. Doug, I want you to talk to them about this that say, listen, I'm not screwing around. I really want you guys to pay attention to my comfort on this and make sure that that urethra is good and numbed up before you just jam this thing in there. And talk to him ahead of time. I think that's what he did. He said his urologist actually agrees with us.

He said that numbing gel doesn't work with it. No, not when you just put it on the end of the thing and then just jam it in. Yeah, gravity doesn't work that quickly, I'm afraid. Nothing works that quickly. No, hell. Oh, I was so pissed. And then, yeah, I was in so much pain after that that I backed into somebody's car, got out, looked, and said, nope, nothing wrong, and then took off.

And then, you know, a half hour later, I'm laying down and get a knock on the door from the police saying, did you hit somebody's car? I said, yes, but there was no damage. And you know what? I still think I got ripped off on that. Because where I backed, you know, I just. barely tapped their car, and what I looked at was the passenger side, which is the part where my car came into contact with theirs.

The claim that they sent in was on the driver's side. I didn't do that. They just used that as an excuse to get their light fixed. I was pissed. Then you had to explain to the police officer the medical procedure you had just had done. Yes, yes, officer. So they took a tube and they. And they inserted it into my penis.

And it hurt. And he's like, okay, that's enough. That's enough. You can go. When I had mine done, our buddy was looking at me going, hey, you're squirming. Quit biting me. I'm like, this hurts, man. I'm like, how am I supposed to hurt?

You're squirman. You should have said, yeah, I'm coming. I'm coming. Oh. Come on. What's wrong with that? No bill for you. No.

Hey, do you want Holly's, question today? Yes, of course. All right. Our special friend, Holly from the Gulf, right? Who doesn't get her shout-outs anymore? Thanks to Aunt Tase. You're welcome, Holly. Yes. So, I guess she fell down and went boom.

Uh-oh. She has a displaced tumoral fracture. What? Oh. And so she has some swelling. Her left side boob is double the size of the right. What? She's not

kidding? That's what she typed in. She's like got negative A cups anyway. No, no, she has an A on one side and a negative A on the other side. Oh, yeah. So it's not getting any better. She's going to physical therapy. It's been almost four months since her falling. What can she do?

Wow. Well, are they doing lymphidemia? Yes, she has lymphedema. Physical therapy. That'd be my first thing. That is, okay. So, yeah, go ahead. You want to talk?

And I have some ideas on this. The first thing, I want to. to know if they used a sling and a swath to treat it rather than just a stupid sling. Because I see all these people walking around. When we, okay, humoral fracture, the humorous is the long bone of the arm that attaches to the shoulder. So she had displaced means that when she broke it, the pieces didn't line up very well. So there's a couple things that you can do.

You can go in and do surgery on these or you can just put someone in a sling and swat and mobilize the humorous and it will eventually. knit back together. It won't be straight anymore, but you won't be able to tell them. And so, but what I see a lot of times from some of the urgent cares and emergency

rooms and stuff, they just put them in a sling. Sling doesn't do shit. They can still rotate their arm. They can lift it up. Matter of fact, your shoulder can move in every direction in a sling that it can outside

of a sling. Your elbow can't, but the elbow isn't It's a problem. Yeah, it's your shoulder. Right. I agree. So, but a sling and swath is where they put you in a sling, and then they wrap a Velcro thing all the way around your body.

Now that immobilizes your shoulder. That is a shitty way to live for six to 12 weeks. Let me tell you that. Yeah, it really is. So, but anyway, yeah. So she needs to see a lymphedema specialist. Yeah, that's exactly what I do. That's usually physical therapists that do that.

Yep. And if it's been going on for four months, you'd think a lot of that swelling should be gone. I don't know how the pain is she has said, but she did correct me. Evidently, she has an A and a V cup now. Oh, an A and a B, whoopty-do. Don't bother about that. I don't know. Yeah, that's tough for her.

Still have that much edema in there. There's got to be a lymphatic kind of blockage in there. There has to be a, especially if there's no pain in the breast. Maybe some imaging. Have her call in. Matter of fact, call us. Call my cell phone right now. and we'll get you on the last couple of minutes

and I've got some questions to ask you because I want to know if your arm is also swollen and some other stuff like that. Okay, so here she is, and now Liam's calling. I'm just going to tell him to, I'll call him right back. So do you have swelling in the arm as well or is it just in the chest wall on that side? No, just on the chest wall.

I had it swan in the whole arm when it first happened, but not now. Left or right? You said it was the left, right? The left, correct? Left correct, yeah. Yeah. Are it the left right?

All right, yeah. You need to see a physical therapist that specializes in lymphedema, and often they're going to be associated with the cancer centers because they deal with women that have had mastectomies and breast cancer and stuff like that. They probably won't have seen too many people with humoral fractures. But the thing is, we'd have to look at your x-rays, but, you know, you could have easily interrupted some of the lymphatic drainage. Especially because there's a huge lymph nose in your chest wall. Oh, yeah, that true, too, and lymph, you know, the lymph channels start to coalesce around, you know, the proximal, you know, the exilip.

Yeah, right. And under your armpit, yeah. The armpits, I was trying to think of the non-clinical word, and I couldn't come up with armpit. Jesus Christ. Under your hairy armpit. Yeah, near the armpits and the chest wall. So that's got to be what happened. And your body will eventually make its own channels if there's enough pressure to do so, and they may have to, you know, apply some pressure.

Maybe they'll use ultrasound or do some other things like that. Okay. So, yeah, call it. Just look in your area. And just look up lymphedema specialists because we've got two of them here where we live and we're in a dinky little area. Yeah, they're not a lot of them out there, though. They're maybe hard. She lives in a very large place.

I'm still going to therapy, so I'll just ask them. They know anybody. They should have one there. Okay. They'll know. Yeah, I know you're not usually, you know, whipping your jugs out. And I use that, you know, term very loosely. But you can't even tell when you look at me.

What's that? You can't? You can tell Oh, yeah Yeah, your boyfriend can tell He's paying too much attention to that side When you guys I sent you the x-rays on your phone

Oh, you did? Okay, well, I can't look at them on the radio But I will look at them But that's got to be what it is And just let us know what you find out, okay? Okay Thanks Shannon from South Florida, everybody

Hey, Holly Feel better Hi All right, see you Thank you Okay, let's see you. Bye. Okay. Well, that's very interesting, isn't it?

Bless it. Yeah, but, you know, it's not hard to disrupt those lymph nodes underneath the, you know, the armpit when you break your. Right. Yeah. What's that nice? What is that, Buzz? I don't know. I was thinking the same thing.

For once, I actually hear what you're hearing. It's got to be my phone. Yeah, normally I'll hear anything. That's okay. All right. Well, listen, everybody. That was loads of fun today. and don't forget next week

we will have PA Lydia in the studio with Lady Diagnosis and Tacey and Dr. Scott and if you have an opportunity if you're in the Rochester area come by Comedy at the Carlson on Saturday night around 7 a.m., that would be a stupid time to have a roast. 7 p.m.

I may have a couple of tickets that I can give away at the event to stragglers that are out there that want to get in because I bought six and I've only got four that are committed including me

so we'll see but anyway all right anything else Tase you got anything Nope got nothing Happy birthday brother You got anything to plug Tase Yeah Retired Lollstone

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