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[@poojamohanty957]

Love how Dr Mike balances himself out by explaining difficult medical terms yet failing to understand a class 5 meme.

[@victor_creator]

Do those even exist? I've never seen (or I guess recognized) one.

[@Ready-made_bachhe23]

Becoz he want to connect with avg iq people 😂😂😂

[@K4inan]

what is class 5

[@Bing292]

@@K4inan he means the class that is for the dumb people. It was called 4th set at my school.

[@poojamohanty957]

@@K4inan it meant a meme that is well understood by a kid studying in 5th grade. ( it was a joke obviously)😂

[@catherinebond7474]

Dr. Mike: "I don't know why my eyesight is getting worse." Everyone: "You should probably see a doctor about that!"

[@sopcannon]

irony is he wont see the dr

[@R4t10nal]

He can look into a mirror...oh, but his eyesight is getting worse, so he might not be able to see a doctor

[@AveRay_]

@@R4t10nal well played good sir

[@Hufflepuff_cookie]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@angelykahansen2734]

Good one lol

[@lindwurmchen]

I love how Sam is not just explaining the joke, but asks Mike questions so he can find out for himself like talking to a toddler. Peak parenting.

[@HarmonyEdge]

In the future folks who mention Sam must now put it down as Daddy Sam... 😂

[@wordslvr5269]

No one: Mike: stay happy and healthy Me while laying in my bed at like 3 am on a school night crying and eating an entire container of frosting: yes

[@mikaelastefkova]

It's 3:52 am now, I feel ashamed 🙈

[@slimyboixd]

I literally spent the entirety of last night watching Dr. Mike and eating chocolate.

[@mikaelastefkova]

@@alexfillingham9949 4:14am out here, but I'm going to sleep soon 🙈 Have a good night haha

[@SatumainenOlento]

It is good to hear it, isn't it? Positive greeting: "Stay healthy and happy!"

[@Sam-And-Colby-Fan-1.0]

Same

[@explorer47422]

Dr Mike: Don't do anything that will seriously injure yourself! Also Dr Mike: Starts hitting people for a hobby

[@candydandy2694]

IKR?!! so true!

[@JusticeBurpees]

Doctors: Ban boxing, it's bad for your brain. Also doctors: *Train for boxing* In all seriousness, as a premed student who wanted to be a combat medic and I'm a currently a no life law student wishing to get a job in the armed police/army soon, I'd like to say doctors and other professionals are people too.

[@Faiiltrain]

step 1 become doctor step 2 promote boxing so people become injured step 3 profit

[@Leopoldshark]

Barney: You'll never see me boxing. Boxing causes brain damage. *drinks varnish*

[@AzureTank776]

Well, he did say at one point that doctors are the worst patients

[@user-zg1cl9gf1q]

Mike: "Not lunch, lunge" His doctor, writing in chart: *not sexually active*

[@BhlackBishop]

oof

[@bodyofhope]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Sam-fq5hc]

Don’t do Dr. Mike like that!

[@kgarcia2615]

😂😂😂☠☠

[@gamelia1092]

This is the best comment! He needs to see it! 😂

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

The issue with the Pain Scale with faces is that, like Scrubs pointed out, the *feeling* of pain can be subjective. One person may feel debilitated by a cut in their foot, but a different individual with the same type/depth of laceration in the same spot might just go "It kinda hurts." Putting it to an outside source (bee-stings level of pain, mauled by a bear levels, etc.) is honestly kind of useful as an alternate tool.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Honestly, I would use a wasp instead and move it maybe to 3-4, otherwise they need decimal digits on it.

[@lizzieandmocha1131]

Yeah, my mom has gone through two C-sections, a car wreck, kidney stones (one of which was a staghorn stone that took 4 surgeries), carpal tunnel shots, and has rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis, and used to donate plasma. I, however, have only been through one major surgery, and have period cramps, and sometimes my allergies get bad. We have very different levels of pain tolerance, lol.

[@Tatiana_Palii]

I've never been stung by a bee, so how am I supposed to know, is it a similar level to my pain or not? Even a similar external cause of pain can feel different, like for me epilating certain spots of my legs with an epilator feels much worse than professional bikini epilation. I have never given birth, but I've experienced such an awful period pain, that I vomited because of how bad it was. I also lose consentration and can't work even when the pain is not that bad, that's just how my body is. It's all much more confusing to me than the simple smiley faces.

[@Cody_Ramer]

I cut the top of my foot didn't even know it was that bad until my foot felt wet. All I felt was a slight sting.

[@bigbrowntau]

Hi, here in Australia, we just call them "Absence seizures"...no need for absaaaance. No confusion here. Also, I've found the improved pain scale gets through to people far better, especially the ones who complain of 11 out of 10 pain while doomscrolling on their phone

[@Hedgehogger191]

What's an Absence Seizure? Bc this dude's explanation didn't make me understand anything-

[@SarcAStice]

@@paulbailey5897 actually you can twitch or go slack in the face too but it's nowhere near as bad as with more complex and serious seizures, and it doesn't last as long. Though my experience is first-person and it just seems like lag irl.

[@EYES975]

I have absence seizures

[@maggiequinncloud]

I️ will say as a chronic pain patient I️ prefer the “improved pain scale” to the faces. It can be interpreted easily on fold out pamphlets, and when you’ve lived with excruciating pain for 17 years “bees, lots of bees, can’t stop crying, and unconscious” are a FAR more accurate way of expressing the amount of pain than “smiling, straight faced, frowning, and crying.”

[@kellyhoward6941]

Maggie; I hear ya, Sister!!

[@ceecee3181]

I completely agree! 👍

[@sura-quayarbon6055]

Yeah having chronic pain is hard to explain to people when you get so used to it it just becomes background noise... you end up making it seem lower than it is because you are so adapted to living with it.

[@danissdiary]

@@sura-quayarbon6055 OMG EXACTLY

[@maggiequinncloud]

@@sura-quayarbon6055 YES! I️ was diagnosed with CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) when I️ was 7, I’m almost 24 now. I’m not going to spend my entire life crying, this has become my normal. I️ smile, I️ laugh, that doesn’t mean the pain isn’t ALWAYS present, and ALWAYS there. I️ smile when I️ see the doctor, and then tell them my pain is an 8 today, and many that aren’t pain specialists don’t believe me. “You’re smiling, you can’t be in THAT much pain.” Would you rather I️ spend my whole life crying? Would you rather I️ exaggerate my facial expressions so that YOU can see how I’m really feeling? Absolutely not. This is my normal, that doesn’t mean it isn’t EXCRUCIATING. I’ve just learned to live with it.

[@SpitefulPixieee]

I like that improved pain scale. As an autistic person I have a hard time defining my pain based on pictures of faces. The improved one puts my pain in perspective.

[@NyxThat]

I’ve always resented 1-10 scales. The face ones were ever so slightly better, but the improved one -like you said- really puts things more in perspective. Tbh, the “bees” levels are a bit confusing to me, but all of the other ones are really helpful!

[@KateandBree]

Love the improved one as an Autistic and chronic pain person.

[@miriamrobarts]

@@NyxThat I think the "bees" are supposed to be funny while also giving an idea of a pain level. But yeah, I've only been stung by one bee at a time. 😄

[@QuiteFranklyFrank]

Same.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

If a bee sting on the new scale is a 6, it must be part of the joke. When my knee is acting up it is way more unpleasent than any bee sting I can remember. Same for my last tooth problem. I would probably move the bee sting on 3 and a bunch more between that and crying. At least 4-5 steps. But then I would probably rate head pain higher than pain on the limbs. Way harder to get out of your mind. I could concentrate more if I removed half my nail while cutting onions than with severe headaches. And I know how both feel.

[@rexperverziff]

“Eat the fruit that is within the sugar” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@annehonime752]

Well your prononciation of « croissant » is actually one of the greatest I’ve ever heard from someone who’s living in US and as a french person I’d say the first croissant you said is the more accurate (si vous voyez ce que je veux dire…😅)

[@l-d3573]

En vrai j’étais choquée

[@Tttt-011]

QUASO

[@annehonime752]

@@Tttt-011 uuuuum not quite that sorry

[@qtip5525]

Vraiment... c'était pas mal

[@pandasya9]

Oui, c'était bien pour un person qui ne parle pas le Français.

[@ElusiveAvocado]

"Life needs things to live" -Taliesin Jaffe "Without life, you can't need" -Dr. Mike Truly Inspirational

[@CaTastrophy427]

"People die when they're killed" -Suzaku Kururugi

[@e.k_liadon]

Another Taliesin Jaffe fan, hi there! :p

[@samwortham2385]

I find this hilarious because I just started watching both Critical Role and Code Geass

[@KeraR432]

I was so hoping I’d find this comment!

[@shelbykutil9743]

Yessssss!

[@kilwom]

dude can still inform people about their health and wellbeing while reacting to memes

[@flame.6375]

Day 15 of tryin to get a shoutout from anyone cause…well…..idk

[@flame.6375]

I do art

[@snipehype227]

@@flame.6375 shoutout to my boy Flame he does incredible art you should all sub

[@flame.6375]

@@snipehype227 well that’s ….epic

[@snipehype227]

@@flame.6375 just like your art

[@enbyharvey1417]

The faces pain chart seems like a great invention used for kids all the time although backfired for my sister. mum had to convince nurses and doctors that she as a young kid was just picking the happiest face because she liked it best wasn't until she was crying and showing all non verbal signs of pain they finally believed it

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

and the scale also becomes rather meaningless with chronic pain.

[@poro3246]

@@HappyBeezerStudios the scale isn't meant for chronic pain, but rather acute pain or a new onset pain. With chronic pain, the intensity is irrelevant, but rather the chronicity and impact on your QOL.

[@themakerstoolbox9688]

​@@poro3246 Wouldn't impact on QOL be pretty synonymous with intensity? I know a lot of chronic pain is not max intensity all the time, but the peaks and valleys have to be a lot higher than most aches and pains to impact QOL. Wouldn't it be important to know the scale of the pain to know the impacts it has and can have further down the line?

[@nesquick9976]

When he mentioned the seizures and all, I was kind of happy because I have epilepsy and just hearing people talk about it makes me feel better for some reason. Plus, made me proud to understand what he was talking about.

[@fogweaver5633]

Epilepsy has been ignored and swept under the rug until very recently. About thirty years ago, I told a dentist I was epileptic and what meds I was taking (didn't affect local anesthesia) and he almost kicked me out of his office and refused to work on me! So I'm glad any time I hear open, honest discussion of epilepsy. We're not crazy, demon-possessed, or whatever other superstitious/ religous nonsense ignoramuses like to spout. Just people

[@nesquick9976]

@@fogweaver5633 I seem to be possessed, my mom has recordings of my seizures to report the nurses since we always are mixed up on my epilepsy. It's a joke though, so it's fine. But, as much as it's been given more attention, I've only seen people make fun of it. I had my first seizure in September or October of 2017, I was only in sixth grade. So it'd be five years ago since. I've realized the time I've had it, I had become more excluded. Especially when I had a seizure in one of my classes which luckily there was an ambulance there already. Since then, I've been on many different types of medications. The most becoming 20 pills a day. I keep rewriting my comment, so I might just stop it here, lol. But I'm sorry for what you had went through. I'm glad I got to see someone else here experience it though. Hearing about it just makes me feel less lonely.

[@muggle_puff]

I've had some people ask me what epilepsy is (after telling them I have it). Grown a** adults.

[@nesquick9976]

@muggle_puff I'm currently a senior, and I asked to make an assembly about epilepsy since they always focus on cancer and people who lost limbs. Those are also important, but there are so many other things that exist that people don't understand. So I asked to do an assembly about something no one focuses on.

[@juliarunn5009]

Lmao dr. Mike’s pick-up line. Lowkey insulting the girl before asking her out 💀

[@amazngamalth3a256]

gotta humble em first

[@-Raylight]

Doctor : *"Lunge time"* Me : *"Did somebody say **-crossfit-** lunch?"* Dr. Mike's dad jokes 10/10 😂

[@youtubewatcher1553]

😂

[@justanexpressionlessguy2167]

Daddiest dad jokes ive ever heard Wait wha-

[@poojadeepak6211]

pov: u r desi and clicked only because you saw aishwarya rai and salman khan on the thumbnail

[@legoeszombiesetc.1499]

5:19 I was actually born with that condition. The doctors at CHKD mainly recommended posture exercises, as well as side planks and push ups. They also gave me a suction cup with a pump to wear on my chest for an hour in the morning and evening. Finally, on June 24th, 2020, they put two surgical bars in my chest under the dent to push it out. Now I'm just waiting a year for them to get the bars out. But that plunger cracked me up!

[@readtheroom831]

“Without life, you can’t need.” - Dr. Mike’s Words of Knowledge 2022

[@LinktheHylianChampion117]

absolutely brilliant man

[@toast7977]

Fax tho

[@thesavagecheshirecat3899]

Swag

[@adaliawright6891]

Preach!

[@kbrock9146]

Definitely belongs in the hierarchy of needs.......

[@thesuperginge1348]

My issue with the pain scale, as someone with a chronic pain problem, is that my "crying face" is a lot further away from other people who haven't gotten used to it all day every day for the past 30 years

[@dietotaku]

yeah, it's all relative to your experience. in 2009 i had a pulmonary embolism and once the pain got so bad i went to the ER (spent an entire day telling myself "it's just gas"), i told them i was at a 9, i was literally crying in the exam room. fast forward 5 years and i'm in labor with my youngest, they had just broken my waters and i was 7, 7.5cm dilated and i was in so much pain i was SCREAMING INVOLUNTARILY. they kept telling me not to scream while they were doing the epidural and i couldn't, it would just come out of me. i don't even remember what the PE pain felt like anymore, all i can remember is that pain from the contractions.

[@diyeana]

Ya, I am with you. I also have a hard time classifying my pain level when I see my doctor. Ever present pain keeps getting pushed down in numbers but I don't want my doctors thinking I am pain free either.

[@Laura-vs6bk]

Totally, chronic pain sufferers can get used to pain that could incapacitate someone else, it's difficult to explain pain when you're not even sure if you're underplaying how bad it is or not.

[@timlarsson]

I've always thought the same. Not only is it individual how sensitive we are, us with any kind of chronic pain might shift our scale. For me, my stomach cramps up several times a day when it's at its worst, and at those times I will dig my finger nails into my palms when clenching my fists, my eyes turn bloodshot, I hold my breath and my head get all strained which might lead to a mild temporary head ache. But what would I label that, with a number? 5 maybe? I mean I would never skip work because of it, and I would not let it "disable" me in any way. I just push through and live with it, 11 years now. And to compare against something else: I broke my scaphoid bone in my hand into 2 pieces. I thought I just sprained my wrist because it was a bit stiff and didn't feel any pain at all. Even slept on the hand as I always do, but after 3 days I went to the hospital just in case... and then I had a cast for 3 months. I would give that a 1 on the pain scale without a doubt. So how does that compare to other people? Would they think breaking a bone is a 5 and my stomach cramp is an 8? Or would regular people say my cramp is a 3 and I'm just sensitive? But I guess the doctors know :P

[@txlivin7819]

If you pick the most intense pain - you are a drug seeker.

[@KittyMax97]

I was diagnosed with absence seizures at 18 but probably had been having them since I was 5 (doctor said when my frequent headaches started is probably when the seizures started.) they kept me in the hospital for a weeklong eeg and found them plus that they were epilepsy related. Crazy how spacing out can turn out to be that.

[@samalberino669]

I feel that I have generalized intractable epilepsy (diagnosed at age 11 but my doctor thinks I was born with it) with two different types of seizures; absence and generalized tonic clonic… I’m glad somebody is talking about seizures and epilepsy

[@avosmash2121]

What do those feel like? Do you lose motor function or sight like in a typical seizure or get just blanked out

[@seeing8spots]

I was diagnosed at 7 with absence seizures after a good 6-8months of getting in trouble for not listening and "spacing out" etc. My mom still feels terrible about it lol

[@seeing8spots]

@@avosmash2121 you are unconcious sorta? I would remain standing, I would remain walking for a couple steps, if you tried to take soemthingnout of my hand id grip it, I even would continue riding a horse. But I wasn't aware. Id stop talking and in my view if I seized while someone was say. Walking across a room, to me they would jsut teleport to the other side of the room (something you brother found very amusing during tag lol).

[@jsomebody2289]

As others have said, chronic pain makes it so hard to communicate with traditional scales and be believed. I've started explaining it in terms of stages of labor and doctors seem to understand much better. Like, it's when you first start feeling contractions pain 3, or have to keep rocking side to side because it hurts so bad 8, 10 is pitocen contractions and I'm either giving birth or possibly dying. Just because I'm smiling and joking doesn't mean I'm not at an 8 or 9.

[@bethyngalw]

the problem with all these pain scales is they're relative. When you live with chronic pain, somebody else's 10 is your "meh, probably a 4?"

[@icarusbinns3156]

Another updated pain scale… based on songs from Hamilton

[@ninirossau2304]

I only worry when it is new pain. The rest is like oh, you are here again. I get annoyed when I cant sleep or hold down my food.

[@bethyngalw]

@@ninirossau2304 oh I feel you soo hard on that one. The new-and-unexpected-pain category is an absolute kicker, and comes with an added dose of "wtf is going wrong now?" anxiety for good measure. I hope and pray whatever you're dealing with gets better somehow. In the meanwhile, you have my solidarity.

[@SlothDaan]

That shouldn't matter, because anyone that feels level 8 pain has the right for some relieve. Regardless if that 8 is someone else's 4, doensn't make the pain for that person less now does it?

[@cheese-rz6up]

@@SlothDaan The problem isn't the person with the higher level of pain, but the person with the lower level of pain. They could have appendicitis but get written off as just a stomach bug because they rate the pain at a low level.

[@paulcollyer801]

I remember years ago a nurse asking my daughter, “On a scale of 1-10, where 1 is not at all & 10 is the worst pain you’ve ever felt..” & I thought, if papercut is the worst pain you’ve ever felt, it’s a guaranteed 10. If, however, the worst pain you’ve ever felt is mega colon, and you only just avoided surgery, or natural child birth without pain relief, whacking your thumb with a hammer is a 2! Couple of months back I heard a paramedic ask, “On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is mild discomfort & 10 is me ripping both your arms out..” methinks they’re a bit miffed at people 😂😂

[@jimmywoolever798]

Last year I was hit by a car while driving a motorcycle, and they asked me to rate it, but i had a kidney stone two years prior, and let me tell you, being hit by a car? WAY less painful than the kidney stone.

[@toiletcomputer]

Haha paramedics must say these things often to put you at ease. I saw, on TV, a guy with a broken neck and the para said rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being getting your nuts ripped off. Broken neck guy said 6.

[@saharah101]

Gave birth with no pain relief compared to a toothache it’s a 2

[@paulcollyer801]

@@saharah101, the giving birth’s a 2?? Dang that was some tooth ache.

[@harris8258]

@@saharah101 you mean your toothache was that more painfull ?

[@vibhorjambhulkar3932]

You can never go wrong with Selmon bhai's clickbait

[@nidishvaradarajan6995]

Pov:Doctor Mike featured a meme with salman Khan and aishwariya rai in it Me: Yesssss Indian actors are getting represe......wait how is that only the Bollywood people reach them all the time? Noooooo

[@xeldabutterfae407]

I am absolutely crying. I never knew I had absence seizures, had never even heard of them, but they absolutely wrecked my childhood and, honestly, my adult life. After he mentioned them I freaked out and looked them up immediately, and yeah, absolutely matches what I went through as a kid, and somewhat still do. I seem to be in the rare group that didn't outgrow them, but I never *knew* about them before, and gawds they're hard to explain without the right context. This is a HUGE mystery of my life solved in a few seconds of side comments in a frigging meme review video. Thank goodness for doctor mike. I really hope he sees this, because I want him to know that this might have genuinely changed my life, because for the first time ever I know what to look into to try to get treated! This has been practically a straight up disability for me even nowdays, and I thought I was stuck with it forever, but for the first time I have *hope*. Thank you for what you do, mike.

[@douba_plusa]

Yeah, honestly I don’t know for sure if this is what used to happen to me a lot but I used to be so confused how I really put a lot of work into listening, engaging, and digesting when teachers or anybody was talking yet miss important or notable things they said. I would ask myself if I was there the whole time listening, how did I miss these things that everyone else remembers so clearly. One of my teachers would just say I’m spacey/zone out and I don’t know if that’s just sugarcoating what might’ve actually been going on. Doesn’t affect me as much now because I ask people to repeat everything they just said and they will 😭

[@AnonyoZarifAkand]

HEY *don't* be worried about this! A characteristic symptom of absence seizures IS zoning out, but that doesn't necessarily mean what you experience is absence seizures. Do consult with a physician, though. Absence seizures aren't usually fatal. Unless, you know, one starts when you're driving or something. So again, don't be worried. See your doc when you can. Both of you.

[@marshmallow7640]

Zoning out can actually be the characteristic of a lot of disorders, not just absence seizures, it’s important to get tests done to confirm.

[@bunnyisdreaming6081]

DEFINITELY see a doctor ASAP. could be epilepsy, or not. could be dissociation or just simply zoning out, which is normal. however if you ever find yourself doing something and it's like a time skip to where it's suddenly a few seconds or minutes later and you have 0 recall of what happened- definitely more like a absence seizure than dissociation. if you find yourself "staring off" daydreaming, that's just zoning out. if you're "staring off" and not aware/semi-aware but still able to recall something around you afterwards- even if that's just what you were staring at- to some degree, especially during stressful moments, most likely dissociation. either way see a doctor asap

[@Edamame016]

I'm happy for you, hope you get well! :)

[@Alli_fhgoalie]

Mike “eat fruits instead of white pasta” Also Mike “I would like pasta all over me”

[@lamenamethefirst]

Italians living smoothly till 99 would take offence to the pasta slander.

[@gwenwalravens8030]

Or just eat whole wheat pasta instead. Bought it by mistake once but it tastes really good, at least to me. Never went back to white spaghetti.

[@Alli_fhgoalie]

@@gwenwalravens8030 that actually does sound good! I’ll have to get some. What kind of sauce goes best with it?

[@AoiJokeJokie]

He said all over, not inside

[@gwenwalravens8030]

@@Alli_fhgoalie Doesn't really matter. I use it for any recipe, bolognaise, arrabiati, carbonara...

[@SomeGuyy_Dev]

0:57 Push up, Pull up, Curl up, Give up

[@ExtantThylacine]

Saturday night palsy, I had that once. I couldn't move my hand at all for the next couple of days and it took a week or so before I could raise it above my wrist. It took about a month to regain full dexterity.

[@AmyKatz06]

Unconsciously I used the “improved pain scale” when I arrived to the ER after a severe pain provoked by kidney stones, literally when the doctor asked I was like level 8 “I can’t move or speak it hurts so bad” 😆

[@Michael-dj6pd]

Yeah post lung surgery I was at an 8 or 7 and knew when it was reaching 6 I needed to call for pain meds immediately before it got to an 8 again. I could barely move or speak at 8. Pain tolerance quickly grows after an 8 or 9 for sustained hours. I remember being hesitant with the morphine after my first op, but man did I learn the second time around.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@Michael-dj6pd Still doesn't hurt to be conservative with opiates. Keeping them handy for when needed, but trying not to take more than neccesary. I hope everything went well and the lung is doing fine.

[@jimmywoolever798]

I got hit by a car last year while driving a motorcycle, when they asked me to rate the pain I said "6", but then clarified I had a kidney stone two years prior. Which was dramatically more painful. Being hit by the car was like "OMG this hurts really bad!" and the kidney stone was "Get me to the ER, I think I'm dying."

[@jademichelle357]

I love how in every meme video Doctor Mike does, there is always one meme he doesn't get and Sam has to explain it to him. 😂

[@muhseninsaif3586]

I still don't get the parachute skydiving one!... Anyone? Please explain!!!

[@Hufflepuff_cookie]

you can go skydiving without a parachute, but you most likely will not survive the landing. so, if you want to go skydiving twice, you need a parachute to survive the first time so you can go again. unless someone yeets your body out of a plane.

[@muhseninsaif3586]

@@Hufflepuff_cookie thanks 😊

[@sophiab9641]

Absence seizures are funky. Usually I end up staring into space but it feels like I can’t move. I can still think (unlike more severe/tonic-clonic seizure) but I’m just frozen in place. According to other people my pupils also dilate a ton.

[@mahalapenrod2769]

That pain scale! Aaaahhhh! I never was good at rating pain - lived 8 months internally bleeding from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, getting pregnant twice more with it, then getting drug to the ER, when another pregnancy ruptured the second one! The doctor scolded me next day, saying I shouldn't have been able to walk. I moved myself from the gurney to the operating table!😳😳😳😳

[@jarskil8862]

5:30 I'm sure I'm not only one who saw it horribly wrong at first.

[@wokengamer4891]

Lol, exactly

[@inanis9801]

Yea.

[@HajudinStar]

Yup

[@nagarnakul]

Yeahhh...i just went to comments for checking I'm the only one...glad i am not...

[@TheUltima_Werewolf]

4:48 Who said they were my organs

[@simonspacek3670]

Yes, church doesn't need it anymore.

[@ethandominic-13]

Holy sh-

[@simioffe5877]

Hi Doctor Mike! I was really intrigued by the part on Absence Seizures, in fact I have had them in the past. Really uncomfortable and annoying to deal with. I’m epileptic, so seizures are common place. Love your vids!

[@Psilomuscimol]

I had something similar coming off antipsychotics. Well it felt similar.

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

I used to get absence seizures! Got detention a couple times in school. Even though I continued getting seizures I had a normal life. Seizures went bye-bye for 6 years, came back in the form of tonic clonics (shaking) and I have tried 11 medicines with no luck - I'm drug resistant and disabled as a result 😳

[@themissakura599]

Your French is pretty good (yes, the "t" is silent). And even though the "r" is really hard to pronounce for foreigners, it was really not bad. C'est impressionnant

[@katrinkirchberger9122]

Funny, that is sounds so french ifen when it isn't frome france right. :)

[@danielle8587]

R is probably the hardest to pronounce I'm ending my second year of learning french and I still say the r in the beginning of au revoir

[@themissakura599]

@@danielle8587Don't worry, it's the most difficult for new learners. It's because it comes from between the back part of the mouth and the upper throat while the English one comes from the front of the mouth, like with German or the 'h' in mandarin, the vocal chords aren't used. It wasn't always like that. About 60 years ago, the r was similar to the Spanish one, which is hilarious because a good lot of French students struggle with the Spanish r while learning the language.

[@roboteacat]

So your saying “your french is prey good”

[@mozeritupy3484]

@@themissakura599 ye the r in spanish is hard for us french x)

[@teresamcmurrin8672]

Comparing someone to an appendix can also work as a break-up line--"because you hurt like hell and make me sick, so I want you out of my life." At least, that's been my experience--with both appendix and a couple of my boyfriends...

[@joaoie]

I'm definitely getting a Streisand effect where I have no temptation to put q tips in my ears, I've gone weeks without the temptation to put q tips in my ears, but as soon as Dr. Mike says to not do it, I remember how good it feels and now I want to

[@Wingedshadowwolf]

I know, my ear canal started to itch when he said that!

[@lydiamillanar6230]

Very interestid

[@jaceycourville8089]

I love to give a thanks to the person who does all the edits because they are working hard, just helping us understand what Dr. Mike is explaining

[@justanotherhuman07]

1:48 selmon bhai spotted

[@420ariko]

Selmon bhai😂

[@jayaswati1505]

😂😂😂

[@ilovedc9786]

Selmon Bhoi Supremacy

[@CK-sn2lg]

Hehe fun fact, I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was in my teens, and after years of trying to distinguish which type of epilepsy I had (rarely, if ever, convulsive), my neurologists have come to the general conclusion that I have absence epilepsy. I’ve gotten really good at identifying what they feel like lol

[@MegaRazorback]

That's Peti Mal epilepsy if you want the technical name for it, is should know...Been living with it since i was 3.

[@laineelizabetelapa4943]

@@MegaRazorback that’s the same thing but the old name for it :)

[@txlivin7819]

My friends son has these and before he was diagnoses he tried To kill himself. He had over 500 during the night which means he never went into REM sleep for weeks/months at a time. They are so hard to diagnose.

[@drwning]

My mom has neuro-cardio-genic syncope, I never expected to hear one of the content creators I watch say the name of it, much less explain what it is. Very cool Dr. Mike!

[@thecrap-crap2414]

Dr Mike is one of those guys who even if you are just meeting him you will like, I watched a lot of his videos and I feel like am getting educated when he isn't even trying to teach anything!!

[@Itsukazutrap]

Being French, the way you pronounced "croissant" is pretty much how we say it. Kro (like cross) a (like in happy, without the h) san (like sand, but without the accent on the nd). You nailed it

[@o-_-ojb]

5:06 “…you will be charged $100 for cancelling without a 24 hour notice”.

[@doomsdayaddams2894]

I went to the ER with what was later diagnosed as gallstones. I was in so much pain that my hands were shaking. The receptionist still insisted I fill out a long form with my medical history…which they already had in their system. I couldn’t actually finish it.

[@Vanvanroo]

I'm happy that Mike likes to have fun by explaining or analysing ir correcting things! I do that too, I'm told so often I ruin the fun but like... THIS IS HOW I HAVE FUN!!!

[@sakurahimiko6184]

Can we appreciate Dr.Mike for taking time off of his free time and doing this.

[@LocseryuOfficial]

it is kind of his job though

[@youtubewatcher1553]

Yeah he does kind of get paid for it but, I love watching his videos.

[@CrouchingGrandpa]

A channel with 9.2mil subscribers probably generates more money than his dayjob.

[@ThePhilipp96]

😂😂

[@SnoopDogg-bc7vo]

what lol

[@alessandramesa7734]

I love that Doctor Mike brought up absence seizures. I had Absence seizures for many years and not many people heard of what they were. Epilepsy in general isn't talked about much! Especially the different kinds of seizures. And how not all seizures have the same triggers. I would love to see him make a video about this.

[@loyaltychange4123]

I have it too and luckily it was caught early so we could treat it quick. I have done a few EEG's but i did my first overnight one just recently. I struggled in school so much because of it. My teachers didn't believe that I was "zoning out" since I didn't have a 504 plan. My grades were slipping and I was about to have to take summer school till we finally figured out what it was. Now I have a plan in place and my grades went back up since they were reteaching

[@allstarzombie_7]

Doctor Mike: “I like the ones with the faces” Also doctor Mike: “yeah I flew a [pee-woop] fighter jet.”

[@Belleplainer]

I went to middle school with someone who had that absent seizure condition, or at least something similar. She would just get perfectly still and quiet for like a few minutes before snapping out of it.

[@foreignerkhalil8223]

“Without Life, You Can’t Need” -Doctor Mike

[@TheUltima_Werewolf]

😔✊

[@Che_Yo]

Words of wisdom

[@LukewarmAnimations]

can someone explain the skydiving joke

[@particle_wave7614]

I had absence seizures as a kid for a while. Literally the closest thing we have to time travel. I guess you lose temporal awareness as well, because minutes of time would just disappear, like hitting the pause button on your brain for a few minutes. Honestly if you don’t have other people around you to witness, you could potentially never know you had one.

[@Michael-dj6pd]

Sounds similar to after a blackout I had on drinking too much alcohol on anxiety meds. The gap in time is like someone cut out a piece of my existance or cut a scene in a movie to the following day.

[@bamorrison7931]

I wasn't sure what happened but only ONCE has this happened I was just sitting on the couch and a few minuets later I am just there I don't know what happened I just remember not remembering anything that happened those like 2-5 minuets.

[@IraqieGirl541]

This happened to me when I disassociated as I saw a reminder of trauma and I had a class mate snap me out of it… Crazy

[@RadioactiveSushiOnMercury]

@@IraqieGirl541 happens to me a lot for those reasons I think too, a lot as in I forget entire days and such, usually I have something like that happen at least ten times a week

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

I can only remember one time I had something like this happen. I totally dissociated for a few minutes while working in a datacenter once and I grabbed the wrong server without realizing and swapped a hard drive.

[@clara_hp6254]

I really liked the improved pain scale bc when I have my period I’m often in excruciating pain to the point that I throw up and can’t move anymore but I would still be too scared to say that it’s an 8 or 9 pain wise The descriptions really help

[@maryorycolon5094]

Thanks for educating us always Dr. Mike😃😃😃

[@tournesol99]

Wow, I hardly ever see anyone talk about Pectus Excavatum. Growing up I was told that my chest looked that wat it did just because I slouched, and that if I stood up straight the bones would correct. It seriously impacted my self esteem, and no doctor ever recognised it as a proper medical condition. It wasn't until I started to have trouble breathing that I went to see a specialist. Turns out I had PE and needed surgery since it had started to put pressure on my heart. The sternum was found to be five inches from my spine, and my heart had been pushed further to the left. Thankfully surgery was able to help, but I still get pain, my ribs are still uneven, and I am still scared of taking my shirt off around anyone, even my family. So yeah, interesting to see someone recognise it and know what it is.

[@acidificatorxx]

I was absently watching this video while doing something else and I was in full shock when I heard it mentioned! I'm currently 15 and struggling a lot with self esteem issues because of my chest but I'm glad to know I'm not alone. Do you have any tips for people like me since you were in this situation as well?

[@tournesol99]

@@acidificatorxx I would say that the best thing for me was the solace that I was not alone. I time I felt like some freak, I told myself that there were others like me, and that PE was simply a medical condition. It didn't have to define me, even though it is an important part of who I am. And it doesn't need to define you. You are fantastic and amazing, and you are not alone :)

[@reaganharder1480]

@@acidificatorxx so, I know a guy who has it, and he has fun with it. One time he got a straw and some pepsi, leaned back on a couch, and had himself a drink out of his chest. Granted, at 15 there's a lot more people who are just jerks looking for something to harass you about, but if you can find the confidence to just own it and make it a fun weird thing instead of a bad weird thing... It's really hard to be insulted for a feature that you actively embrace as something cool about yourself.

[@bradentheman1373]

Hi there, I’m pretty sure my brother has it, cause yeah it looks like that my grandma just says when “the angels were giving out bones” he kissed that one but I know that’s bs, how can I like actually know he has it or not csuse im worried

[@tournesol99]

@@bradentheman1373 If his sternum is curving inwards like that, it is very likely that he has PE. And if left undiagnosed it can start to impact his breathing amd put pressure on his heart, much like what ended up being the case with me. So it is best to know sooner rather than later. I'd recommend he should probably go to a doctor and have that be explicitly brought up as why he is going. As in when he goes, the doctor should be told it is because of his chest. Otherwise the doctor may never even look at it or think of it as an issue. Perhaps even discuss PE with them as a possibility as it is pretty rare to the point they may never have encountered it. Now, they may not be able to formally diagnose it, and they may refer him to a specialist instead.

[@RidleyJones]

Not a doctor but I can only imagine "absence" is pronounced the French way for the type of seizure because the other types of seizures have French names (petit mal, grand mal).

[@verodg2820]

French-Canadian here, you are correct

[@xdreax62]

Came in to say this. A lot of early EEG research was done by French neurologists and the names stuck around, particularly in neonatal EEG patterns: trace alternant, trace discontinu

[@Kebbab.213]

absence is indeed French

[@Kebbab.213]

@@xdreax62 we're so great

[@lexsamreeth8724]

The one with the faces is called the OUCH scale. It's also used with children who are capable of understanding and reacting to speech, but who don't know their numbers yet.

[@PhoebeK]

It is also useful for adults with limited communication abilities (temporary or permanent), including those who cannot consputlise pain in the normal way such as autistic adults; there is no reason to limit non-verbal communication aids to children.

[@Mister0men]

The face pain scale was always hard, cause I can hurt like a ten and look like a 4-6

[@GalacticaEdits]

I love how Doctor Mike can laugh at a meme, or get really mad and tell us ALLLLLLL the misinformation it’s giving us

[@lidestudios5094]

5:00 for those who don’t get it, that’s not cotton candy, it’s fiberglass !! (Put in walls for insulation)

[@Heartsforyurii]

... forbidden cotton candy

[@ifrahjama2215]

@@Heartsforyurii 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ktakashismith]

1:48 what's really funny is the meme shows exactly, deadass, what Rene Laennec was trying to do on an extremely well-endowed woman (srsly that's how they auscultated heart sounds before 1816), which caused him to get frustrated and basically roll up a magazine to make the first prototype of the stethoscope.

[@Hedgehogger191]

I have not adquired enough IQ during my lifetime to be able to understand your comment

[@yukifoxdemon]

Neurocardiogenic Syncope is what I've had since I was about 11! The symptoms are thankfully much less severe than they were when I was a teenager (I had to be extremely careful standing up or I would get dizzy, for YEARS), but I still react strongly to heat

[@nacindaa]

I have it too, but for me it isn't really when you poop like Dr. Mike said. I fainted a lot, so I got tested for it about 6.5 years ago when I was 18. They did the tilt table test in the hospital and take meds for it now so I don't just faint anymore. It's an interesting thing to "suffer" with. Wish you all the best

[@varkesh456]

Never ceases to amaze me how dr mike can manage to balance memes and educating, makes me feel there could be a whole academic structure around memes when i watch these videos.

[@stephenolan5539]

Normally it is irritating when someone takes something fun and uses explains it seriously but Dr. Mike is great.

[@kellyaukerman]

Are we not gonna talk about how he called a plunger a “bathroom suction”

[@felixisadorable]

It made me laugh so hard

[@samalberino669]

I have generalized intractable epilepsy (diagnosed at age 11 but my doctor thinks I was born with it) with two different types of seizures; absence and generalized tonic clonic… I’m glad somebody is talking about seizures

[@SarcAStice]

I was diagnosed with the same and started taking medication for it when I was 12, I'm surprised that so many people in the comments also have epilepsy! I'm lucky I had a doctor who was able to help get them under control though I had them through most of my childhood/high school. Nobody talks about seizures and I know they can be scary to watch, props to Doctor Mike.

[@gachakai.2]

7:33 I remember that sign so well I saw it in a doctor's office once

[@nurcansukzlpnar2527]

7:06 Aww, I’m gradually becoming a big fan of the 5-year-old boy inside you.

[@mlee2774]

The scale with the faces drives me insane because I’m at smile until a 7 and I like an actual description in words of what each number means because I’m a literal thinker and my face can’t make those shapes

[@samp9581]

Same! I liked the new one too for that reason

[@HeyStinky888]

"oui oui baguette" made me laugh so hard my soul left my body

[@jen4978]

I like how he explains the absence seizures. I had a mild form of epilepsy when I was little, so I would frequently have them. Because my epilepsy was so mild, I ended up growing out of it so that's really good 😃

[@montanahannah4086]

Thank you for sharing that. I thought I was the only one who experienced that 😂😂

[@mmgibson1]

I have seen the pain scale with the faces - it helped me tremendously because it made me think about what face I was making and what others were seeing even if I tried to minimize the level of discomfort. I was never really sure at all what number level I was at when those type of pain scales were very common. I love the meme about the new, improved pain scale. Somehow I doubt that will become a routine thing in the area of medicine.

[@txlivin7819]

In all honesty though, there should be one like this. To compare your pain to something. Those stupid smiles, I always get them wrong. One time I picked a semi smiler and passed out cold on the Dr.'s floor from a cyst bursting in my tubes.

[@kaelin8775]

@@txlivin7819 exactly! my dad's pain scale has 10 as a literal heart attack. my 10 so far is cramps from a stomach bug. my fractured arms are at a 1 on my pain scale, and a paper cut is a level 3. i really need something to compare my pain to, like "i cant do some basic functions but i can still do everything necessary without assistance" vs. "im unable to do things and need others to help me complete tasks" is a lot more useful

[@NetAndyCz]

The pain scale is missin 'I wanna die', I had a tooth infection and the pain was unbearable, had a lot of suicidal thoughts and even more of self harm thoughts to either remove the pain or get distracted from it... On the other hand when I broke my finger I barely noticed it at first and while it started to hurt later, it was not that extreme as the tooth.

[@txlivin7819]

@@kaelin8775 Don't down play stomach cramps. They are so painful!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@NetAndyCz Toothache can be weird sometimes. Had cavities that went untreated for over a month because it didn't felt bad. Thought I had poked myself with a toothpick and the pain was just that. Got my wisdom teeth out and didn't took use of the codein prescription until my ibuprofen ran out. On the other hand a long day of standing makes me knee worse than that.

[@nicwaples6020]

the meme about the fact that there's a real medical condition involving pooping so hard you pass out was absolutely hysterical.

[@chrishind7218]

actually my new favourit echannel, keep it up dude great job

[@keeperofdragon409]

5:23 I actually have that, and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Let’s just say, I’ve had a few heart issues in my life. However, it’s still frustrating when you want to be seen by a doctor now or soon, but get an appointment a month out or 2, at that point it’s almost irrelevant, and don’t want to go to urgent care if it’s a small thing.

[@maanasayenamandra8895]

I am binge-watching Mike's videos for about three months, from the first Grey's Anatomy video to House M.D. dying, and I feel that Dan's (who I think edits the videos) editing skills have skyrocketed. Keep going bud!

[@thatbullshark7207]

Same, I just can't stop, his videos are just so entertaining and educational.

[@maanasayenamandra8895]

@@thatbullshark7207 Exactly!

[@vanessamillwood9710]

0:37 - Huh? 🤣🤔🤷🏽‍♀️

[@Mai._.Charukyshi]

Salman Khan on the thumbnail 💀💀💀

[@fionasyto6537]

Dr Mike: What do you think doctors do at parties? Me: They're only there to save someones life, leave a stupid expensive bill, and then dash out the door to repeat the cycle.

[@vicotyz]

Dr. Mike Thank You for keeping the world happy and healthy with this videos, they sure cure my depression

[@varadth__2532]

facts

[@wallywest2360]

True story, when I was in the middle of trying to pass a 6mm kidney stone some intern asked me where on the chart my pain level was. I threw it across the room and screamed "your chart doesn't go to 11!!!" Honestly have no idea how I stayed conscious until the Toradol kicked in, but I really wish I had just passed out.

[@FewVidsJustComments]

2:20 “Without life, you can’t need” that made me laugh, because it’s technicly true

[@erinmk28]

I have Vasovagal Neurocardiogenic Syncope. And in Tv shows and now in this video... it is referred to as something that only acts up while pooping. But I am here to tell you that it is so much more than that! I can get dizzy from standing up too fast, being dehydrated, being hungry, being stressed... Not just from pooping. In fact, that is my least common occurrence of dizziness.

[@avsgriffy]

My favourite part of these videos is when Dr. Mike needs memes explained to him.

[@dogwithheadphones]

0:30 that could also be a threat

[@evecarrington562]

So the bear zoning out in class is me everyday of my life. 🤣😂

[@your_ordinary_idiot.14_]

Wholesome fun fact, listening to someone's heartbeat can make someone calmer :3

[@caseysiefert611]

Dr. Mike I was so happy to hear you bring up Absence seizures. I’ve had epilepsy for the past 13 years which is also the majority of my life and Epilepsy is something that is not talked about enough. More than that people almost always thing seizures are convulsive which they aren’t usually. At my worst I was having about 150 absence seizures a day and 3-5 grand mal (convulsive) seizures a day. So many people have epilepsy and seizures and it is not talked about as much as it should be. Thank you for talking about it 😊

[@Nathan15038]

I love how Dr. Mike is not getting any of the jokes and basically the jokes are going over his head but It’s still funny and entertaining

[@NinjaFlibble]

I seem to remember making a meme about that 😆 I even saw it on a meme reaction video from Doctor Mike

[@CalifornianCuttlefish]

Great Video! *This is very hilarious and I love it*

[@CaptainRandus]

The Bench part at 3:58 - Dave Mustaine, lead guy of Megadeth dealt with that!

[@IuVendrellRibas]

Looking for this!

[@elizabethlauter3155]

Doctor your humor is off but your laugh is so cute, it just brings a smile on our face❤️☺️

[@ElementalLeaf]

"Memes Your Doctor Doesn't Want You To See" Dr Mike: *shows us the memes* The other doctors: *confused betrayal*

[@thesavagecheshirecat3899]

Lmao

[@agamzxhv11]

*wait… mabye he isn’t a doctor then…*

[@Yaapo]

Lmaoo

[@ShadowWolfGirl99873]

When Mike said name an organ you can live without, you can also live with just one of your kidneys and without one of your lungs. That also reminded me that your liver can almost regenerate/repair itself if it gets damaged (depending on the amount)

[@Razmoudah]

When I sneeze it's my mid-to-upper back that hurts afterwards. It's even worse when it causes it to pop.