Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 602 - Schlong of the Dead

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

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I guess it's just YouTube.com slash at Normal World. All right. Very good. Tacey, do you have topics today? I sure do. You want to get those out of the way? Yes. All right.

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I cannot be bothered to find my own stories, so my husband found these for me this morning. Blame on. Jack Carlson, the Australian man behind the Democracy Manifest meme, who became a worldwide sensation later in life after a 1991 clip of his arrest for consuming a succulent Chinese mill went viral, has died. He was 82.

Oh, poor old failure. He wasn't that old in that video. Carlson... That video was from, what did you say, 91? Yes. Yeah, okay. Carlson died Wednesday, surrounded by family after battling cancer. He also had many other health conditions, including systemic inflammatory response syndrome. He walked a full and colorful path, and despite the troubles thrown at him, he lived by his motto to keep on laughing.

Through the original, though the original incident, which made Carlson famous and much, Much loved occurred in 1991. It was until footage of his arrest was uploaded to Internet video sites in 2009 that he gained worldwide notoriety. The surreal clip captured Carlson Booming Voice, his dexterous and vivid use of language, his natural theatricality as well as his love of succulent Chinese food, instantly making him a cult hero, an immensely quotable figure. And what was great about it was you can be. 100% with him because it was a case of mistaken identity. He wasn't even the person they were looking for. Oh, gosh.

So the original story was that he was a guy that would go to these places and not, and then, you know, dine and dash. Oh. And that's who they thought he was. Oh. But he wasn't that guy. So, you know, when I first read that, I'm like, okay, well, you know, it's not as cool. No, hell, hell, oh. Because he's being, you know, he's a shit.

Yeah. But he wasn't. He was totally, he'd been drinking a little bit. But he was just a regular patron, and they thought that he was the other guy. Go ahead and taste. There were six police officers attempting to put him inside a car. They tell him he is under arrest. I'm under what, gentlemen?

This is Democracy Manifest. And indignant Carlson booms to the watching press. Things began to get testy. Have a look at the headlock here, says Carlson, as the police try to manhandle him. See that chap over? Get your hand off my penis. This is a bloke who got me on the person. penis people.

I don't remember I'm saying this is the bloke who got me on the face. Although it is difficult to see what is happening. This is funny listening to Tacey, you know, reenact this. Yes. Why did you do this to me, pleads Carlson? Get in the car, this is a police officer, seemingly frustrated with the situation. For what reason, replies Carlson, he adds, what is the charge? Eating a mill?

A succulent Chinese mill? Things began to escalate. Oh, that's a nice headlock, sir. Carlson says, as the police step up their attempts to put him in the car. Oh, ah, I see that you know your judo will. Which was very sarcastic. Did he say that? Yes.

This guy is trying to get a headlock and all he's got is like his hand on his chest. And he looks at him and says, oh, yes, I see you know your judo well. I'm going to play it here in a second. And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis? How dare you, screams Carlson. Right. So here's the thing. Get your hands off me.

One of the cops climbs into the car from the other side so that he can. and, you know, if they get his feet up there, he can grab him and pull him in. And so they get the door open and that guy is sitting there kneeling in the, actually in the back seat of the car. And, you know, his face is right in a position where, you know, he could, I guess, accept his limp penis. And that's what Carlson was talking about. Defeated, Carlson bids adieu to the crowds, ta-ta, and farewell. In a May 2021 interview with Seven News, Carlson spoke of. about the incident saying that we're supposed to be living in a democracy, and here they are

dragging me out of a restaurant halfway through a succulent Chinese mill. Well, I thought, gentlemen, this is democracy manifest. He added that when he saw the cameras outside the restaurant, he saw it as a chance to proclaim his innocence to the world. He sure did. I thought, well, here's an opportunity to prove my innocence because they've dragged me out, thinking I was some sort of international gangster when I knew that I wasn't. So here's a chance for the camera, for the people of Australia, to let democracy manifest itself gloriously. And that's what I carried on like that. Of course, I had been somewhat influenced by the juice of the great great. Yes, of course. Good. This is, I think, is my favorite video of all

time. And I've had quite a few that I really enjoyed, you know, gangster Star Wars, which used to be on Carl's website, E-bomb's World. You know, I didn't know if you knew. that, but our buddy Carl from who are these podcasts was one of the founding fathers of E-bom's world, which was the original YouTube. Anyway, so I thought

although Tacey's reenactment was quite excellent, hearing the original may be the way to go with this. So, they have the door open. The first thing he does is come out and slam the door closed.

Now they're He said you just assured me that I could speak. He'll sit down inside the car. We're not assuring anything. They say, sit down, get inside the car. We're not assuring anything. And that's when he goes a. Look, I'm under what?

Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest. Have a look at the headlock here. See that chap over there? Get your hand off my penis. This is the bloke who got me on the penis. It's the block who got me on the penis people. Oh, my God. For what reason?

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal. Oh, that's a nice headlock, sir. Okay, so this cop just has his hand on his shoulder. He's trying to get him in a headlock, but he can't do it. Oh, yes. I see that you know your judo well.

Good one. Good one. And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis? How do you get your hand? So they lift him up and now they've got his feet. I mean, if you're going to resist, that's the way to do it. Yes, it is. Be brilliant.

Tata and farewell. So Tata and farewell, our friend Jack Carlson. He also, he said he said. He told the news, he didn't realize how famous he was until someone approached him with a business idea. It took me many years for someone to show me it was up there on the internet until someone approached me and said, can we put it up and sell bottles of wine with your face? The wine incidentally is called Get Your Hands Off My Pino Nor. And I said, go ahead as long as I get a cut out of it.

Oh, have fun. That's funny. That is good stuff. Well, that was, you know, I can't make fun of that joke because I made a, I made wine called Suck My Pee. That Opie and Anthony talked about for 20 minutes and bashed me to know it. I think it was funny that Opie didn't initially get the joke. Oh, my goodness. Oh, really?

Did he not? No, no, no. He was like, it says suck my, suck my on there. And then eventually Anthony got it. He said, oh, it's suck my pino. Anyway, we can play some of that sometimes. They shit on me for 20 minutes. And that was the first time I knew that I was sort of in the, in the, you know, the group or whatever.

It was part of the group because they wouldn't have, it was hilarious. I was laughing the whole time. It was not one of those things where they're shitting on you, you're getting angry. Right. I mean, it was too funny. And, yeah, it was cool. So anyway. Cool.

All right. Go ahead and taste. Article 2. Living large, the challenges of having the world's largest penis. Jonah Falcon, a 50-year-old American, holds a unique. and somewhat burdensome title, the man with the world's largest penis. While this distinction might seem enviable to some,

Falcum's daily life is filled with unexpected challenges and adaptations. His anatomy is truly extraordinary. His length is 13.5 inches when fully erect. His girth is eight inches in circumference. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, in circumference, okay. So eight divided by 3.1-415,

would be what? So if it was nine, it would be like three. So, yeah, two and three quarters inches. That's about right. Yeah. I think some of the news stories got it wrong. They said he was, you know, eight inches in diameter. It's like, there's no way.

Because that'd be 24 inches in circumference or more. Yeah, go ahead, taste. These measurements have earned him recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records. Wow. Though he humorously notes that they don't have an official category for his particular attribute. Living with such an unusually large appendage presents numerous challenges. Clothing conundrums. He has to wear extra long shirts to avoid unwanted attention.

Airport security snafews. Oh, wow, can you imagine. His size has led to awkward encounters with TSA agents who have mistaken his anatomy for a potential security threat. Oh, my goodness. Well, they found he had a shal alien in his pocket. Relationship roadblocks. Finding compatible partners can be different, difficult. as not everyone can accommodate his size.

See, that was Sonny Corleone's problem in the book. He had such a giant penis that he could only have sex with certain people. And the women were all people that had unusually large vaginas. And they couldn't have normal sex with a regular guy. So it's Mario Putez. You know, some male fantasy. But the woman that he was having sex with a bunch in the book, at the beginning, had to eventually go to the doctor to get, you know, a surgery done to, you know, I guess, tighten up her vagina, yeah.

But anyway, yeah, that's interesting. Some unexpected. I guess that would be difficult. Experiences he has. He's been offered roles in adult films but has declined. Well, where were they find somebody that could have sex with him? To maintain his privacy. Celebrities have reached out to him, curious about his anatomy.

and he's become an unexpected advocate for body positivity and acceptance. While Falcon's anatomy has brought him a certain level of notoriety, it has also impacted his personal and professional life. He's had to navigate media attention, public curiosity, and the constant challenge of being seen as more than just his physical attribute. Despite these challenges, Falcon maintains a sense of humor about the situation. He's learned to embrace his uniqueness while advocating for a more open and accepting attitude. toward diverse body parts.

We should calculate the volume. You know, you just use a cylindrical calculation. You know, what's the volume of a cylinder? Jeez, a little ways. I wonder if Echo can do that. Echo, what's the volume of a cylinder that is eight inches? No, what is it? Shit, hang on.

Oh, okay, she's not talking. From Answers.com. Okay, Echo, stop. ECHO, what's the volume of a cylinder, 13 inches long and 8 inches in circumference? See if she can do that. No. I think you stumped her. She can't do math either.

I think she's asleep. Okay, well, anyway, go on to. She's not even spin, yeah. That's it. Oh, okay, very good. I was hoping that you'd keep talking while I was doing this calculation. Well, he's doing the calculations. No.

Yes, I would say he expenses a number of challenges just in normal. Poor feller. Golly. You think just going to the beach. I wonder if I could get his phone number. Would that be interesting to you? No. I mean, for real, as a woman.

I wouldn't think so. That seems to me like I'd be a damn handful. Yeah. All right. I was hoping the AI. I can give me the answer quickly, but anyway. Bless it. Yeah, volume of a cylinder calculator.

Okay, well, I'll just do that. So 13 inches high, right? 13.5, did you say that? Let's do math on a radio show. And then the radius would then be, okay, if it was eight around, so the diameter would be, let's say, it's two, so 1.5 inches. So that would be three inches, right? Oh, okay, we can do the diameter.

is yeah, okay. Yep. All right. Let's see. This is stupid. I should just edit all this out, except I probably oh, goodness. 95 cubic inches. So how many milliliters

is 95 cubic inches of fluid? I bet Echo can do that. Echo, how many milliliters is in 95 cubic inches? 95 cubic inches is a about 1,557 milliliters. Holy shit, it's a liter.

Yeah, one whole liter of fluid. That can't be right. It can't be right. That'd be a whole liter full of blood. That's like one-seventh of your blood supply. That can't be right. I'm going to do that calculation. I'll post it on Twitter later.

Oh, my God. You know, I shouldn't try to do math on the fly. If he were attempting to have a full erection, he may get a little light-headed. Yeah, I would think so. I don't have enough blood. Yeah, don't stand up anyway. Seriously, yeah. Okay.

Well, thanks, Tase. Scott, you got anything? No, sir. Okay. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. Let's just answer some things that we can't answer.

Do it. All right. Okay. Technical difficulties, there we go. Sir, Dr. Steve Esquire. Hello. I had a question. Esquire.

That's an attorney. That's one of the lawyer. I've seen on man versus wild, I believe. Okay. where he put a hose in his booty hole to absorb water that way because the water was not potable or safe enough to drink and he had no way of cleaning it. They said your anus, your colon could absorb the water without the bacteria making you sick and throwing up. Is that true? Yeah, no, it's a great question.

Think about it. If you've got shit in your colon, you're just drawing water. out of there and you're not drawing shit into your bloodstream unless you've got a real problem you're just drawing you know water out of the colon that's its job is to reclaim water so in a dire emergency when you know and particularly if it's short term because when you take water you know it's like from a contaminated pond and you give yourself an enema because you can't drink it and you can't make a fire you can't boil water you can't fill You can't make it safe. Literally, no way, yeah.

You're also introducing all the things that live in there. And there are some of those things that live in a pond that could also live inside you, some parasites, giardia, stuff like that. So you're increasing your risk of dysentery and other things like that by introducing toxic bacteria. But in the short term, it's correct. That is a way to purify water. I would just only use that as a very last resort. And I've even heard of people doing it with seawater, and I don't know how long you can do that. But, you know, in an emergency.

There were some people that were trapped on a raft, I think, that after their boat went down, and they were in the middle of the ocean while they were waiting for rescue, they were dying of thirst, and so they did seawater animas and at least survived long enough to get some housing. Yeah, but God, can you imagine all the, like you said, little parasites and bugs and worms and things in pond water, stagnant pond water, geez, ways. Yeah, so if you're going to be out in the wild, make preparations for that. There are things that you can take with you. Water filter is number one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And a way to make fire. Lighter number two. Yeah. Now, in the ocean, they have this thing. It's a tent still, have you heard about this? So it's part of a survival kit. So if you're on a raft out in the middle of the ocean, they have these things called tent stills.

And what it is is it's got a conical clear, clear like covering. And then there's a little floating, like a little tiny kitty pool. And you fill up the kitty pool with seawater. And then it will evaporate up and then condense. on the clear, you know, conical thing at the top, and then it will collect, and you can collect fresh water. Right on. Oh, that's cool.

And speaking, it's kind of interesting, you said it, and I was thinking about you guys at the beach other day. Have you seen the newest way that the lifeguards in North Carolina are rescuing people getting sucked under, like, an undertow? No. They're using drones and flying with these drones flying a... Like an intertube to them? A lantern tube with a rope and flying out and dropping it by the people

so they can draw them in from the... Wow. Isn't that cool? That is cool. That is cool. I saw a guy fishing that way. I thought it was brilliant. That is brilliant.

He was deep sea fishing from the shore. Oh, hell, that even makes. And he took a drone and he had a, you know, had a little servo on it. Instead of having to cast it, he just flew. And he could go way, way, way farther out so he wasn't bothering people that were swimming and stuff. Because those guys always piss me off. If you're at a beach where people are swimming, don't throw your hook in. No, please don't.

That's a dumb ass thing. We had to, and you think, well, I'm being an asshole if you're one of those fishermen, but those Carolina rigs, particularly, they've got two giant hooks on them, and we had a woman that started screaming out in the water, and we brought her in, and she had a big old hook going through her, the bottom of her foot, that she had just stepped on that somebody had just left there, you know, it got stuck on something or a fish bit it off or whatever, and you can't get that out easily. What you have to do is clip the bar off if it's gone all the way through, and then you can back it out. But if it hasn't gone all the way through, then you've got to push it until it is all the way through because you can't just back it out with that barb on there. Those barbs are huge. Oh, God, no. So that has to be done under, you know, local anesthesia, and it sucks. Then you're increasing the risk of infection and all that stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, one of the guys, I think one of the guys. So please don't do that. Yeah, Saturday Nightly, I've got an infection covering the Olympics, the surfing contest. Colin Jost, I think. Oh, really? Yeah, stepped on something and got it. Oh, is that right?

I didn't hear about it. They had to fly him home, yeah. Is that right? Tacey, can you look that one up while we're talking? I mean, my God, you make me do some work. That's why she gets the big bugs. I've already done my job. Well, you can just leave that.

I think it was Colin Joe. I like a little Colin Joe. Yeah, too. He's married to Scarlett Johansson. He seems like pretty solid guy. So, yeah. Yeah, so please don't do that. I mean, listen, there's lots of places you can fish where there aren't people swimming around you.

But this guy, there was no, literally no one's swimming around him, but he was taking it so far out that no swimmer could get caught on the hook that he was putting out there. That's crazy. Yeah, he was going out a thousand feet, something like that. It was crazy. So, yeah, now, if you do get, let's do a little PSA where we were had this giant, they had reclaimed a bunch of sand, and then the sea, of course, reclaimed it again. And so they took a bunch of sand from out, dredged it in, and then made the beach wider. And over two years, it just went back to where it was, but now there's a giant sandbar out there. Oh, okay.

And so when the, when the, if there's a break in the sandbar and the tide is going out, you know, the level is dropping, but it can't drop all homogeneously because there's a sandbar there. Sure. So it all goes through that channel and it causes an insane riptide. Now, if you get caught in one of those, don't try to fight it. Right. Go with it. Well, go with it, but swim at right angles. You can always swim at right angles to the riptide, and you will eventually get out of it because they're usually not that wide.

Now, there is one place over there where there is a giant sort of not a reservoir, but a wetland with all these what they call creeks, which are just saltwater channels through living material. And there's two islands, and the only place that the tide could go out was between those two islands. and no one was ever allowed to swim in that channel. It's beautiful. And there's all these jillion-dollar homes and stuff. You can't swim in there because of riptides. It's so wide, and there's so much water going through there that you will surely die. I did my job.

Yep, thank you. Colin Jost has left his 2024 Olympics post behind after his gig in Tahiti resulted in multiple health concerns. Oh, no. The S&L comedian reportedly resigned from his surfing correspondent. duties before the events on the French Polynesian Island came to an end Wednesday. Australian weatherman Luke Brandon filled in for him. According to NBC, Joseph had stayed longer than originally planned and the surfing competition was delayed due to weather. Just had a great time and everyone was thrilled with his coverage from Tahiti.

So he did get to do some coverage. Apparently. The weekend update anchor touched down in Titi prior to the game's opening ceremony on July 26, but his time at the popular vacation spot quickly became anything but paradise. Within his first days, reporting for Olympics duty, Jost had injured his left foot on the island's coral reefs. There you go. Don't step on the coral.

Oh, those hurt. They're sharper and shit. You know it's going great when you've been to the Olympic medical tent more than any of the athletes. He captioned an Instagram for the chair list. Why was he walking on the coral reef, though? I don't know. During his Olympic coverage, I remember when we were in Australia, they were just scream at you if you got anywhere close to the coral.

Yeah, had become infected and hasn't improved. He told primetime in Paris host and sports commentator Mike Tirico last week. He was also dealing with an ear infection. I'm now on three different medicines. Poor fellow. Poor, my new goal by the time I leave here is to have as many infections as there are Olympic events. Well, at least he could laugh about it, right taste? Yeah.

All right. Man, that's terrible. Poor feller. I like him. All right. So there's using colon to purify water. Yep. All right.

Extended. Hey, Dr. Steve. It's Albert from Albuquerque. Hey. Been a little while since I called in. Doubt you remember because you get so many. But I had a prostateomy, radical prostatectomy, Da Vinci method two years ago. Okay.

And doing well in recovery post that. What I want to talk about was... Well, he says Da Vinci. They did it with a robot. That's what that is. Orgasm after prostatectomy. Okay. Now, a lot of people have problems with this.

When they do a prostatectomy, you can hit sometimes the pedendal nerve and mess with blood flow to the penis and stuff like that. So some people have problems. Let's see if he did. I did some sexual rehabilitation using psialis and exercising my member on a regular basis. As early after as I could after the surgery, which resulted in an ejaculate of blood at one point in time. But anyways, now, and then post that procedure and post that therapy, I was able to regain a full erection. Good. I still need psialis, but penetration is definitely there, and everything works pretty damn good.

The interesting thing is, is that my orgasms seem more intense than they ever were before. I mean, I really feel, it's an intense. It's a wonderful thing. Wow. But he just called to brag. The other cool thing is, is now if I masturbate, nothing comes out. Yep. I can play all day, and I'm coming up.

Not that I do. But, you know, there are those times. Anyways, just wanted to ask your opinion on that. Yeah, sure. Well, he has retrograde and Jack. When they went in there with the robot and took out his prostate, either because he had prostate cancer, or he had large, enlarged prostate that was affecting his ability to urinate, they inevitably mess with the hydrodynamics of that system. And so when you ejaculate, semen is going to go out the path of least resistance. normally there's a sphincter there that closes off the bladder so that the path of

least resistance is out to the outside world because that's what semen is for is and we forget about that. There's a purpose to these things and one of the purposes was, well, the purpose is to, you know, fertilize an egg to further the species. So you want it to go outside the body. But when you mess with the hydrodynamics inside the prostate, the path of least resistance now becomes into the bladder. And so that's what happened.

So he's ejaculating, but he's ejaculating into his bladder. And he doesn't seem to think it, I mean, seem to complain about it. Matter of fact, to him, it's a feature, not a bug, right? Right. Now, I've had other people say that they don't like it because they don't feel that great emptying because, you know, there is that sort of neural pathway from the, from the seminal vesicles out to the end of the, you know, the urethro meatus or the, aka the cockhole. But he doesn't seem to think it's a problem.

He's having more intense orgasms, so I think he would probably – it sounds like he would gladly trade what he had before for this. One for the other eye. And he's got a healthy prostate now. Yeah, thank goodness. Or no prostate. All right, good deal. Good deal. Thank you for – thank you for –

I've been suffering from migraines for five years. I've been to lots of treatments to see about different medication. I've had Botrox, I've had light acune injections, I've had MRIs, I've had TTs, I've had experts, I've had the work, I've had infusions, I was just wondering if you can point me into any other direction. I do have a little bit of scoliosis and some of my, like, what is that? What? All right, thank you, what did she say?

What was the last thing she said? scoliosis, and then I think she was thinking of something and then decided just to bail. So, yeah, there are some new medications when you've, so she doesn't have refractory migraine. She has resistant migraine. So there's two kinds of poorly treated migraines, refractory migraine where they just have the headache all the time. And then there are those that have it intermittently, but medication has failed them. Those are called resistant. And, yeah, there's a whole bunch of new medications back in the day.

We used Butalbatel, which is sort of a phenobarb-like drug. And the problem with it is people would start taking it more frequently because they had rebound headaches. Gotcha. You would take the medicine, the headache would go away. But then when the medicine was washed out of your system, you'd get a worse headache. You'd end up having to take this stuff every day. And now you think, oh, I just have migraines all the time, or refractory migraines. when, in fact, it's actually the medication causing it.

Then they came out with the imitrex-type drugs, you know, the sumatryptan and the others, which basically would recontract the blood vessels in the brain so that they weren't dilating, which is where the pain comes from. Right. The stretch fibers. Yeah, the stretch fibers in the arteries around the brain. The brain itself doesn't have pain fibers. Right.

Once you get past the skull and the membranes and stuff, you can dig around in people's brain all day long and they won't feel it. Which is weird. You would think that the center of all pain and sensation would have pain and sensation. But it can't feel itself. Isn't that interesting? But there are some new medications. You know there's Ubrelvie and NERTEC, ODT. That one is called Remegapant.

It can treat acute migraines and prevent future ones. The Eubrogapant is oral, but it doesn't narrow the blood vessels, but it's, I don't know, I'm not sure that they know how the mechanism works at some sort of CGRP receptor that they block. And then there is a monoclonal antibody called irunamab, and it's sewn under the name of Imovig. and it blocks calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor, same thing that those other drugs do, that C, what is it, C-G-R-P. But that's given by injection. And monoclonal antibodies, you know, they carry their own special problems, and you want to use those as a last resort, and they're expensive, too.

But that's where prior approval comes in. If you have a medication and your insurance doesn't want to pay for it, You can appeal for a prior authorization, and you have to have the doctor's office do it, and they have to actually do it. I have a whole department that does this because, you know, for chemotherapy and so you can't just go, well, you know, sorry, your insurance doesn't cover it. So we have a department of people that call to get drugs approved, and they can do that for this kind of thing. If they say, look, she's tried A, she's tried B, she tried C, nothing's working. Okay. What about the sphenic plexus?

Well, I've got a couple things about this. Number one, if you want to stick with traditional or Western medicine. The one thing I didn't hear you mentioned, and the thing I thought of is even low-dose naltrexone could pass if she's not. Because it's not something they use a lot, but it's something. We use that more for fibromyalgia, but yeah, maybe. It might prevent them. So let's talk about it just for a second. So naltrexone is an opioid blocker.

and used in low dose, it is very effective as long as there's no opioids around in reducing overall pain. So I've used it in people with chronic low back pain, too, so it may work for migraines. I just don't know if it's been studied. The theory is that when you give it at low dose, for whatever reason, it's blocking the endorphins, the naturally produced opioids in the brain. and then a central nervous system, and then when it washes out very quickly, those things, you get spikes in those levels. Right.

And so you're giving yourself natural pain relief. So, yeah, interesting. I don't have anything. Oh, okay, okay. Well, and the reason, you look like you had something you want to say. Yeah, but, you know, I just want to mention that before I go into the kind of more what I do from here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, what.

Well, but the sphenoid plexus, though. Oh, okay. For ganglion, for ganglion, so sometimes what they'll do is a ganglion. Svinoid ganglangling. Yeah, seen splenic gangling injection. They'll do a stelly, stelly, stella, jeez. I'm sorry, I kept saying spina. I'm sorry, Steve.

I think it was something like, yeah, stelic gankly and block. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can do a stelic gangling block, which is what you need, an interventional pain medicine doctor usually will do it. But they'll go in and they'll inject this little, this little stelic gangling that's just above your first rib and right beside your carotid artery. And sometimes that'll help calm down those pain headaches.

So that's another, another option if you're, if you're kind of pursuing this Western medicine. Yeah, because it sounds like she's exhausted most of the Western stuff. Yeah, and so let's talk real quick. It says here the Stellite ganglion block can be an effective treatment for migraines may help reduce the need for other medications. So, you know, so there's two things she may not have, she may not look into, especially if she's exhausted. So now talk about what you would do.

Yeah, a couple of, so one of the major things that I treat effectively are headaches and migraine headaches specifically with acupuncture and stimulation. You know, number one, I put little acupuncture needles in the neck in the head, and I put electrical stimulation to it because it calms down the muscles and stimulates serotonin, calms down just this overall kind of tension through your body. And with her and her history of having some scoliosis, you know, what we see is changes in the spine, pulling tension on the muscles and the tendons and ligaments, causing headaches. And so now those, these muscle tension headaches, you know, kind of manifests as migraine headaches.

And those typically will respond pretty well to the absenteenths. acupuncture and a stimulation. More often so than some of the other medications that work on, you know, for other types of these migranetics. One of the other things I think she need that she didn't mention, if she wears glasses, she needs to get her refraction done by a really, really good optometrist. Yeah, maybe a neuro-optomers is somebody that really knows their funky stuff. Yeah, because if you've got, you know, if your prescription is off even a little bit,

or if you need prism in there because your eyes don't line up, then that could cause just chronic headaches. Yeah, and headaches are really, really challenging to treat, to be honest with you. But let's just say if she does have scoliosis, I would do two things. I'll try the acupuncture with electrical stimulation, number one. And it has to have the electrical stem. Right. And number two, I would look at yoga classes to work on the tension in the spine to help kind

of take the tension off the head. And that might help some of the medications that may have helped a little bit initially. Because all we're trying to do is just find out the best way to manage that headache. Right. You're using the most appropriate drugs and medications, yeah. So that's what I would do. Cool. It's a good look.

Thank you. All right. Hi, Dr. C. Dr. Scott and Casey. Hello. I know it's a male show, but I like listening to your show. It's very fun. Cool.

Thank you. And informative. Also, good for my husband. I'll tell him stuff. But my question is related to H.R.T. Yep. And is that something that men can tell. for erectile dysfunction, or what is H.R.T. for men and for women?

Yeah, sure. So H.R.T. stands for hormone replacement therapy. And it's for people who have low, some hormone that's low. And in this case, I think she's referring to testosterone. So lots of men have low testosterone, and they're not even aware of it. and they think that getting old is feeling tired and having a crummy libido and erectile dysfunction and stuff like that. Physical weakness, oh, I'm just getting old. And you test them, and a significant fraction of those people will have low testosterone. Matter of fact, it's estimated that of all the men who have clinically treatable low testosterone, only about 5% of them actually get treatment. So I'm hoping that number is greater now than that. it was when they first quoted that.

But anyway, so then the hormone replacement therapy is designed to take that low testosterone and just raise it back to normal. This is different than juicing, which is taking someone with a normal testosterone and boosting their testosterone as a performance enhancer. And that carries with it some significant risks, whereas giving testosterone to somebody with low testosterone, just bringing their level back to normal, carries with it very little risk. Other than just having testosterone your body.

Now, if you had prostate cancer, you wouldn't want to give somebody testosterone because it is testosterone sensitive. Same way, if you had uterine or breast cancer, you wouldn't want to give somebody estrogen because a lot of breast cancers are estrogen sensitive and uterine cancer and other female. Germ cell tumors and tumors and stuff.

stuff like that are as well. All right? So that's what that is. Now, for women, if you have, you know, menopause, we don't generally treat that with steroids anymore because they found that that was our thing. So as soon as someone went through menopause, we'd just put them on estrogen. And they'd be on it for life. Gotcha.

Gotcha. And if they still had a uterus, you had to cycle it and do all these things. But some people were just on it forever. And then we realized through some. really large cohort studies that we were increasing the risk of breast cancer in those women. So instead of 11 and 11 getting it was like 1 in 10, but still that 1% change or whatever the change was didn't affect the individual woman that much because their risk is still small. but as far as society is concerned, it caused millions of excess cases of breast cancer over 10 years, say. So we stopped doing that.

Now we have to treat hot flashes and, you know, with other medications. You can still use vaginal estrogen if someone has vaginal wall atrophy or, you know, severe vaginal dryness or pain with intercourse. You can still do that. That does not seem to increase the risk of breast cancer. Good. But anyway, all right. Very good. Thank you.

Let's see here. I don't know what this is. Oh, no, let's do this one. Hey, Dr. Steve. It's Mike from New York. Hey, Mike. How are you guys doing? Hopefully everyone's well.

Yeah, thanks, man. You too. I've been on Remicade about nine years and it recently stopped working. Okay. So there's trying me on this new minute. Okay, so Remicade is one of those biologics that treats multiple things, including things like ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory illnesses. It's approved for ulcerative colitis just about a month.

I know there's other medications out there. How does a doctor, and I trust my doctor, I don't think he's doing paola, but how does the doctor make a good determination on what he thinks will be the next medicine to try you on when the medicine you are on fails? Right. No, it's a great question. There are always these new fancy drugs out there that you can use, but we try not to use those first line if we can avoid it. And listen, I know everybody talks about kickbacks.

There aren't any. I mean, I've never gotten, I wish I could get a kickback sometimes for some of the drugs that I write. But, yeah, there just isn't anything like that. There used to be some sort of under the table compensation in the form of trips and things like that, but all of that's gone away. Now, the researchers may be getting, you know, extra, little extra taste in their grant money or something. I don't know. And that could certainly induce bias when it comes to bringing something to the FDA to try to get it approved. But other than that, as far as prescribing drugs, the only thing we get paid for is the office visit or a

if we do a procedure. So that's not an issue. So taking that off the table, and there really are no further incentives, you know, as drug reps, they can't offer us anything but promotional material. Not even a pen. Can't even give pens anymore. That's right. And that's a big change from the past.

So taking that off the table, how do you pick a new drug? Well, sometimes you've tried everything else and you say, hey, there's this new stuff on the market. Let's try it and see if it does any better. Sometimes it will. Sometimes it won't. Unfortunately, for most drugs, we don't have a blood test that will say this, you know, remicade will work, but it'll only work for 10 years. And then you're going to have to switch it to something else, et cetera, et cetera. So now there are some genetic testing for certain drugs.

I'm not convinced that it's rigorous, but maybe it's coming. We will have a blood test that will say this person will respond better to hydromorphone than they will oxycodone for their pain, so we would start with that and give you a different starting medication. There are, it is kind of the drug rep's job to place the position of a drug for the physician. Like, once a patient has failed this, this, and this, then this would be a good option. Right. And to give reasons why. Right.

I mean. When you say place it, you mean in the provider's mind? In the algorithm, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where does this fit in? Where does it fit in?

Because, I mean, they're not out there to get, well, I mean, they do want as many scripts as they can get. But it's unrealistic to think that your brand new drug is going to be used on everybody first line. Right. So it's important for you to place it for the physician in a spot where it really does make sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. So you have to tell them.

And also what hoops they have to jump through. Yeah. And they need to understand, I mean, whether a prior off is going to be needed, you know, because there's no reason to write a prescription for a drug if it's not going to get approved. on insurance. So, I mean, you do have to go through hoops. You know what used to drive me crazy when I saw a lot of reps was you can get this on, this is on Blue Cross preferred, you know, formulary, but not on, say, Cigna.

How am I supposed to remember that? You know, and that is something that they still do. And that's the company's fault. They're all like, oh, go out there and promote that we're now on this. And it's just that's. That's ridiculous to think that anybody's going to remember that. Right. We never could.

But I just, I write them and then our prior authorization department comes back to me and says they won't allow this drug, but they can have this other drug. And, you know, it's this dance. And that is one argument for single-payer health care is that we wouldn't have to worry about that stuff anymore. On the other hand, single-payer health care, they could just say, well, we're not going to. cover anything, and you're screwed. Right. So having competition out there is good for the patient, but it is a pain in the ass dealing with, you know, a blue million.

And it just, it didn't just blue cross. You have blue cross select, blue cross PPO, blue cross, you know, yellow badge of Texas. Yes, and carveouts. Like if you work for a specific company, you can have Blue Cross Blue Shield or, you know, like our insurance, we have insurance, but it's carved out. So the formulary is different than the basic formulary that they provide. Right. So it really, when you talk formula, it's kind of stupid.

You just have to, what, the only thing you can do, and this really is the optimal way is you take the prescription to the pharmacy, and then they have to deny it. Then the provider's office has to be called, and then they can start to do the, the, you know, prior authorization. Now, this is a really important part of your provider's job. And if they don't do it in a timely fashion, even if you love that provider, you either got to have a talk with them or you've got to find somebody else because it really needs to be done quickly. You know, if you gave somebody a prescription, it's because you want them to take it and then to not do the prior authorization process when the pharmacy calls. That's just lazy. That's just lazy. And they don't like to do it. And, you know, it's tough shit. Not everything's right.

Right. Right. It's part of your job. And it's like people bring the, when I'm in the hospital, the last thing I ask everybody after I do a consult, if there's family members and there's anybody in here need a family medical lead for them. Now, I'm not virtue signaling. I'm just saying that's part of my workflow. And so many of these people say, yeah, I dropped one off at my primary care's office two weeks ago and they still haven't done it. And I'll go do it. It literally takes 30 seconds to do. If you pre-fill your information, all you've got to do is put the information about the patient on there. And then you're protecting their job. They can't be fired if you work for a company of more than 50 people for more than a year full-time.

Then you qualify for family medical leave. And you can get up to six weeks off for yourself or for a close family member to help care for them. And they cannot fire. Now, they can fill your job and they can maybe make you take another equivalent job somewhere else. They're not required to keep that job open, but they cannot fire you because you weren't there because of the illness of somebody. So that was a good law. I think that was a Clinton law, actually. I know HIPAA, I think, was a Clinton law, too.

So, old Bill, is it, you know. Don't ask, don't tell what that one is? Yeah, that was him too. Well, okay. But anyway. All right. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's Mike in New York. I hope you guys are all doing well.

Weird questions. Often I wake up and my pillow is soaked. But the only part of me that's sweating is my head. Okay, yeah. So he has craniofacial hyperhydrosis, but also accompanied by night sweats. Now, night sweats can be a sign of a lot of things, but the first thing we look at is drugs. So drugs that can cause night sweats are legion, and they are things like acetaminopin, aspirin, aspirin, antidepressants, particularly, steroids, any hormone therapy, asthma inhalers, medications for diabetes, et cetera. So you want to take a look at your medications first, and then if it's not that, then your primary care can do some, some,

investigation. Now, if it turns out to be just primary craniofacial hyperhydrosis, there's creams you can put on and stuff like that to stop your head from sweating. All right? Okay, well, before we get out of here, Dr. Scott, let's check out this scene at the fluid family, which is you can join the fluid family in our waiting room. It'd be cool. At YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine when we're live. And just turn on notifications and follow our

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It actually does. It helps a lot. It makes life a little easier. But I'm sweating at night. I have my room, air conditioner, set to 63 degrees. With fans, I know, that's what I'm hoping we're going to make it in here in just a minute. I'm 63 degrees with fans and only sleeping with a sheet. Yeah.

I'm cold, but still sweating. Okay. So let's, yeah. Yeah. So similar to what we talked about. I mean, it's a little more in depth. Yeah, we can talk a little bit more in debt. We were talking more about the cranial facial, hyperhydrosis, but he's talking about night sweats.

Mm-hmm. So women will often have this because of menopause or peopause. perimenopause, even pregnancy, premenstrual syndrome can cause it, other hormonal changes. Anxiety and stress can do this, infections, you know, flu, stuff like that, but I'm assuming that this is not what this is because it's chronic. But again, medications, antidepressants, steroids, certain painkillers, you know, chemotherapy drugs and stuff like that, obviously. But it could be a symptom of other medical conditions. It could be low blood sugar. If you're diabetic and you're having low blood sugar in the middle of the night, you are going to sweat.

And it's very often, you know, three, four in the morning and then you wake up, you know, soaked. So a thyroid disease can cause it as well. And, you know, also just, you know, hot weather and overheated bedroom, but he doesn't have that. spicy foods, hot drinks before bed, exercising before bed, those are all no-noes. When it comes to night sweats, you've got something to taste? Nope. Okay. You're actually listening.

That's so weird. You look at me, like, and I'm, she must be wanting to say something because she's not just looking at her phone. You did look at her eyes close. There was a gloss over them. It wasn't actually listening. Okay. I really wasn't. He said, just a second, just a second later.

He is taking flowbacks. They gave him flowbacks for kidney stones. Okay. I don't know if Flomax, but he said that because he's got retrograde ejaculation, which is because of that, it is weird. I don't know about Flomax, but Flomax could, I guess, cause it since it's, that's a beta blocker. No, it's, isn't it, Flomax, who is an alpha blocker? That's an alpha blocker.

Isn't it? Maybe it's alpha blocker. I'd say you're probably right. Yeah, there you go. If it started since he started. he started was put on this stuff it does have a known adverse effect

of night sweats especially if it's on higher doses I would I would say but let's make sure those kidney stones get resolved before you start doing anything and certainly get all of those hormone panels done and well there are other things

that can give you family medicine doctor yeah sure but your family medicine doctor make sure they know that you're having night sweats and they can run a bunch of just normal lip. Yeah, prescription drugs used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia and men. Tamcelosin is flomax, right?

And dizziness, lightheadedness, getting up too quickly, so it causes orthostatic hypotension. So, let's do the mechanism. I want to make sure that I'm, that I said that right. So a mechanism of action of Tamcelotian, oh, there you go. Yeah, I'll give myself a bell.

Oops. Give thyself a bell. Selective alpha adrenergic receptor antagonist. I don't do it. Yeah. All right. Target smooth muscle receptors of the prostate in urethra that then opens them up. And so if you've got problems urinating because you've got a big old prostate, by loosening up things in there, you can optimize your flow path.

But also if you've got a kidney stone, it makes it a little easier to get it out of there. Yep. Okay. Cool, ma'am. Very good. So that could be it. If it started around the same time, then that kind of makes the... That would make the most sense.

And if you stop it and it goes away and then you start it back again and it comes back, then that kind of follows coax principles, you know, that you can say that that is the causative agent. No. Okay. Anything else? No, sir. All right. Sounds good.

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