I love how passionate Dr. Mike gets about his patients with insomnia. As someone with awful insomnia, it's so nice to hear a doctor say that it's not something you can just fix with a life hack or two
It took me into my mid 30s to learn that I'm just _extremely_ photosensitive, so investing in proper blackout curtains & moving everything with a glow or even single diode (like the modem + router) out of my bedroom cured the insomnia episodes & constant shallow+poor-quality sleep rhythms I'd struggled with since I was a small child. Sometimes it's that simple, but often it's not. Ppl who swear their life hack will solve someone's sleep-condition cheese me right off. It's so dismissive.
I truly feel for those that have trouble sleeping. I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypersomnia with long sleep cycles, so the complete opposite problem. I wouldn't wish either hypersomnia nor insomnia on anyone. My husband suffers from insomnia and he tells me all the time, "I wish I could just fall asleep like you do." I keep trying to tell him that no, he does not, because falling asleep at a red light or while working [just a couple examples] is not a good thing.
same!! I have chronic insomnia due to my PTSD and the only way I can get any restful sleep is taking THC edibles before bed. "just tape your mouth" is such bullshit.
@@MsAubrey I also get that response a lot as someone else with Idiopathic Hypersomnia, so I completely understand. It's nowhere near as nice as some people think it is.
Dr. Mike, thank you for shedding light on the crazy quackery that is unfortunately everywhere. When I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma my neighbor tried very hard to talk me out of doing chemotherapy and try some weird concoction using apricot seeds. She was adamant that I was likely going to die if I went with conventional western medicine. I didn't listen to her and I'm happy to say 13 years later I'm here cancer free.
Congratulations on being cancer-free for 13 years! My uncle had a similar situation to this. He was feeling sick recently and his neighbor gave him a concoction that she said worked for her father when he had the same symptoms. Turns out he was having a problem with his gaul bladder and her concoction was making it worse, so he eventually had to get it removed. Some people are just insane.
I'm glad you are still with us! I know some people just totally loose balance, wester medicine has hurt a lot of families, but it has also saved a lot of families, nothing is one size fits all. Here is to many more years for you!
I was diagnosed follicula non hodgkin's lymphoma 11yrs ago no treatment still here, I won't be having TREATMENT NO CURE,GOD BLESS YOU HOPE YOU STAY HEALTHY.
I love your comment “We don’t fix patients. They fix themselves.” I went to the doctor six moths ago and found out I had very high blood pressure and was at risk for heart attack or stroke. I started actually paying attention to what I ate, started eating 1,500 mg of sodium a day and only 25 grams of added sugar a day, started eating healthier and stopped eating out, started walking daily and going to the gym three days a week. Now I’ve lost 45 pounds and my blood pressure is excellent. Without the doctor though I wouldn’t have known there was an issue.
Exactly! Doctors are wonderful and the work they do is fantastic, but at the end of the day they find the problem and it’s up to us to listen to their advice and use that advice to allow our bodies to do what it needs to do to get healthy. Even after surgeries the biggest part of that is to let your body rest so that it can begin healing itself as efficiently as possible!
I was on a similar road. Morbid obesity, terrible eating habits, no exercise. Nearly stroked out at 34. Huge wake-up call. I still struggle with weight, but I haven't had fast food since 2017, cut WAY back on sodas and alcohol, started walking more (thanks Pokémon GO), and now I beat Diabetes II and have a resting heart rate under 70 bpm.
@@vanessagoddess1 "The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) a day and moving toward an ideal limit of no more than 1,500 mg per day for most adults." 1500 mg = 150 cg = 15 dg = 1.5 g
I had dangue fever and i was in the ICU and there were so many beeps and alarm tones just going off I had low platelet and gum bleed and as soon as I finally slept i choked on a small amount of blood and the doctors came rushing pulled the curtains and looked at the moniter and they were asking me questions and if i was awake Scariest night of my life
7:00 - 7:25 "Alarm fatigue" almost got me killed once. I used to live in a fairly seedy neighborhood, I was in college and broke and it was all I could afford, and I didn’t have a car so I walked everywhere. All summer long it was 90°+ so I wore shorts/skirts, and all summer long people were constantly honking their horns and catcalling me. Eventually I ended up learning to tune out the sound of car horns and yelling from cars. One day I was walking and someone started honking and yelling, and ofc I ignored it thinking it was just another catcall, but it turned out they were trying to warn me a drunk driver had jumped the curb and was driving very fast up the sidewalk behind me. The only reason I didn't get hit was because they hit a light pole before they could hit me. It was very scary and very eye-opening, and it's one of the major reasons why I yell at people so ferociously for honking and catcalling now
Man, I never thought about the possibility of something like this happening... I never really go outside alone so I've only been catcalled once. I'm sorry that you've had to deal with that and I'm glad you're okay!
@@jordancarmack584whats an emergency signal horn? There's no emergency horn, and there is a thing called hazard lights. And there's a thing called a horn. But whats this emergency horn?
@@John-Smith02horns should only be used in emergency situations (like urgent transportation to a hospital or someone is going to the opposite lane while distracted). Horns are NOT used for expressing frustration, arousal or waving at someone.
@@spackseries4400 with all due respect, you're not the person I was asking. And there is at least one non emergency reason horns should be used for: if someone is at a green light for a while and hasn't moved(if there's no obvious obstruction or anything that would make it dangerous to proceed).
My dad could not breathe through his nose for a prolonged period of time. Luckily, his friend is an ENT and had him come in for an exam. He had a cancerous tumor that was blocking his nasal passage. Luckily he listened to doctors instead of TikTokers and got it checked out.
5:35 I love how she included DEPRESSION as a PARASITE or a symptom thereof. Thank you tiktok lady, I had no idea 80% of people have depression caused by parasites. Turns out, I've probably been taking the wrong medication, and taking therapy for no reason since the problem is that I have parasites.
IDK, parasites that cause fatigue (like hookworm) could def be considered to have depression as a symptom. It's hard not to be depressed when you have no energy to take care of yourself, esp if you don't know why you are suffering. And with the gut/brain connection only just being understood there's plenty of room to consider how parasites might effect mood. But that doesn't mean they can say that everyone who has depression can be *assumed* to also have parasites, that's totally *backwards*... Esp now that most people live in conditions sanitary enough to prevent issues like hookworm I wouldn't imagine most medical professionals are going to jump to parasites for a patient who is presenting with depression and isn't, you know, using an outhouse barefoot or eating raw game or any other obvious environmental risk factors.
As a pharmacist Intern I agree. It's like the saying "You can bring a horse to water but you can't force it to drink.". Getting help and following the directions given by the health care professional is ultimately the patients choice.
Doctors are the rythm correctors to our blood circulation. The heart does the work well, and cuz the heart might have issues, the rythm corrector shocks it back into correct beat when abnormal.
I'm an EFL teacher, and that's kind of true of language teachers, too. The students that will learn the language the best are the ones that speak it with their friends, watch TV and movies in that language, and regularly use it outside of class. I seriously doubt if there's a single person on Earth who learned a language exclusively through what was taught in the classroom.
I knew a girl who'd eat raw garlic in the morning and I once asked her, "you know you can chop that up and throw it in an omelet right?" She was flabbergasted.
I just love how this guy is not afraid to admit that hes not perfect and even if he makes mistakes, he doesnt cry over it or try to hide it, he embraces his imperfection and learns from them, and thats what i love!
3:49 I’be on board with this except when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s, the doctor prescribed me Lialda and said “this really won’t do anything for Crohn’s” That’s when I became disillusioned with the medical system. She KNEW it didn’t work and felt no need to ask herself the question of why she was prescribing it.
I mean. Its a weird interaction in general. There are weird and even bad doctors, just go to another where there's no obvious signs of cognitive dissonance 😊
Tbh, likely insurance reasons? I had one med we trialled knee on, and knew worked. But insurance was like "nah, try the other stuff with more side effects first".
@@StonedtotheBones13 Ive heard that they use a med with NASTY side effects to confirm manic-depressive (prev. Bipolar), and then swap you to other stuff.
Its less about remembering names, its more about understanding the root words of those names. You can guess many medical terms if you just happen to have learned a few and the prefixes, suffixes, etc.
Mike I love you! Honestly! I love the way you express yourself and it looks like you have an amazing bedside manner. But the reality is I work for EMS and I have lost faith in our health system. Is really sad but the majority of the people who work there are burn out and have become numb and careless. We need more doctors like you! Honestly! God bless you and give you a very long and healthy life! Keep up the good work brother!
That tape over the mouth things scares me. My mom snores horrifically, whenever my family is on a vacation or something and I can hear her snoring it's like all I want is for it to stop, but the second it does I sit up in a panic and have to check if she is still breathing.
@@stannisthemannis4199 People with sleep apena have a much higher rate of cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. It also causes daytime sleepiness which could contribute to a higher rate of motor vehicle accidents. In other words sleep apena wreaks havoc on your heart, and over time stresses it out to the point of early failure.
4:38 This man is a legend. Rather than whining about his fall, he was just super glad he had a helmet haha. That was a super hard fall too, that helmet did a lot of work.
I love the fact that the most replayed section of the video is exactly the timestamp you put because people reading the comments always click it and go there, lol
Oh my goodness. Thank you for saying patients need rest to recover. 5 years ago I spent 30 hours in intense, traumatic labor and the staff wouldn't let me sleep afterwards. I was constantly being harassed with nurses giving meds, taking vitals, hospital management, etc. I even had people come in to ask about payment methods. I wanted to scream and cry by the end of it. And it went on for 4 days because of complications. The trauma of that experience was horrific.
Similar thing happened to me in the icu after a very severe car accident. I told all of my nurses and doctors, if I don't ring the bell, let me rest. After a few days of me being a constant prick they finally got the picture and I was able to rest whenever I felt I could.
About a year ago my grandmother (who lives in a state far away from us; we are all in India) told us that she could feel a lump in her breast. True to much of Indians of that generation she chose to go to a homeopathic doctor. Not only did the doctor not order any tests beyond a physical exam, he prescribed bullshit medicines and gaslit her and my aunt into agreeing with him that the size was reducing. Fortunately I met her about a month after this "treatment" and immediately upon looking and feeling it myself; booked an appointment with a gynaecologist. It turned out to be stage 2 cancer with three negatives. Complex case but after a lumpectomy, many rounds of chemo and radiation, she is all clear and healthy now. It honestly frustrates me that there is quite a possibility that the treatment could have been less severe for her had she gone to a proper doctor a month before, but nevertheless, she is good now.
My mom feeled a lump in her breast too. Guess what it waaaas? Stage 3 cancer. Mhm, but she's doing good now. Bad thing is, she cant be on direct sunlight at day too much and stay away from hot temperature stuff etc etc yeah im bad at english.
wish men had a custom doctor for our genitals...... sucks having to go to a standard MD for questions about prostate/testicular cancer. that aside, glad you guys went to the right person and your grandma is safe.
Mike's fashion aesthetic getting progressively darker and darker from when he was wearing just plain, light blue scrubs to now in all black has me thinking the misinformed internet is forcing him to start his villain origin story.
As a person who suffered from huge polyps since basically 6 years old, and only figured it out at 21, and suffer from allergies daily, AND insomnia. I appreciate you so much for debunking so many health frauds on TikTok, only If I could meet you sooner in life maybe I could take care of myself better since my parents couldn't. ♥
My mom has a severe deviation to her septum. Has her whole life and always breathes from her mouth. She ended up getting a rhinoplasty to ‘’try ‘’ and fix and widen , well that ended up not working and the surgeon did more damage to it and ended up developing sleep apnea from the damage. Had to get another Dr to check her out and he saw the damage that was done and it wasn’t worth going back in to repair it and he said because of this it caused the sleep apnea. It sucks as she’s now been on a cpap for over 20 plus years now all because she was told the surgery will fix her nose and make her breathe easily and from her nose.
@@brandiehammond I'm sorry your Mum went through that. That surgeon was clearly not the caliber of doctor that Dr. Mike is because he made false promises.
the video at 9:04 is likely someone getting a scleral/gas-permeable rigid contact removed. Since they're hard like glass/plastic, they need a special suction tool to remove and sometimes the suction can be so set that trying to remove the lense pulls on your actual eye. In this case, you're supposed to take the plunger and angle it at the bottom of the contact so you can break the seal against your eye. Source: I have Keratoconus and use scleral contacts to see.
When my mom was in college, she didn't take her contacts out before a nap and when she woke up, she couldn't get her contact out. Went to the nurse and she used the little plunger thing you mentioned. Turns out the contact had popped out in her sleep (yes her and my grandmother are freaks who sleep with eyes open) so the nurse was plunging her bare eye.
@7:05 When my mom was in for cancer treatments, her room was right next to the nurses station. I decided to stay the night with her because she didn't want to be alone. She said she kept getting woken up through out the night so I felt if she had some company she would be ok. Through out the entire night I stayed, we were both constantly woken up by the nurses station having their personal phones alerting them to new TikTok videos, having loud gossip fests, and this lasted from 11pm until 8am and now my mom and I both have a permanent fear of phone noises. True alert fatigue at it's finest.
i had to stay in the hospital bc i broke my back(its not bad just a small crack i can still walk) at about 5am i would hear nurses making coffee and talking with each other in the other room, sometimes watching tiktoks on their phones or just other background noise at about 4-6am they would check my temperature then it starts to become hard to sleep bc the room barely had any blinds so i covered my eyes with my blanket sometimes my back would hurt a lot making it even harder to sleep also hows your mom now? my mom also had cancer treatment in 2019 she survived it cancer is gone
@SamIAm10262 Being deprived of sleep in an unfamiliar environment in a prolonged high-stress situation? I can't stand alarm noises that I've used for too long, so this sounds pretty reasonable to me. I think that perhaps the judgy contrarian among us should touch grass instead.
I would have complained to the nurse supervisor about that. Your only job as a patient while in the hospital is to rest and focus on healing. Sleep is incredibly important for that process. If they can't keep their personal phones quiet then they need to ban them from the area.
Dr. Mike literally saved my life. I had C Diff and the only reason I went in was because Dr. Mike had said in one if his videos having the runs and throwing up at the same time is never good.
@@thedoremegirlit’s crazy how different peoples bodies can be. you cleared your c.diff my taking antibiotics. i got c.diff bc i was taking TOO MUCH antibiotics from years of chronic sinus infections. i had to get an injection to clear it and i get it every time i take antibiotics for more than a couple of days.
Um, I only really throw up when both ends are spasming. My body is kinda held together with the medical equivalent of duct tape and hope(titanium screws and optimism?). I'm a bit of a freak that can't die in spite of how many times my body has tried to shut down.
imagine the confusion on a robber's face when they break into your home and see that you taped your own mouth shut. like, I know there are other concerns in that moment. But can you just...imagine?
I used to live in Dubai. There is a spice market there, and every store sells saffron with claims that say “Saffron increases your sexual potential” and “saffron decreases your risk of heart disease and cancer by 50%”. I need Dr Mike to react to this.
I love how he speaks legit facts instead of saying inaccurate information. I like how he’s not like these other “doctors” on social media that are saying random, incorrect things and how he calls them out for it.
"Patients need rest to recover" OMG, THIS so much. I had pre-eclampsia when my son was born. And my blood pressure would be fine, until the nurses came in to do their checks and would startle wake me and I kept saying "If you would just stay out or be more quiet while I sleep it would jolt up!"
His frustration is adorable. I'm at home recovering from surgery and have been binging these videos. I also work in the medical field. Diagnosis: Major crush on Dr. Mike!
"How are we still alive after thousands of years without 'detoxing our bodies'" To hear a doctor this sarcastic gives me hope for the future of medicine.
You are absolutely right about patients needing to SLEEP in the hospital. I've been in the hospital so many times - longest was for four months, and it felt like every 20 minutes at night someone would come in to check something - blood pressure, change the trash can bag (yes, this happened and I was like, "wtf...."), clean the room, check on my monitor, check the drainage, check the catheter, whatever, but the hospital is the WORST place for trying to get sleep..... unless they put you in a coma. That works really well :P
I want to thank you for saying that hospitals should set aside time for patients to actually rest. My mom has ended up in the hospital a few times, and at one they kept waking her up every few hours, she wasn't getting any sleep, and when she complained, they actually told her hospitals weren't places for getting sleep. Isn't sleep deprivation counterintuitive for healing?
That's only if a patient is immobile. I work in a nursing home and the only times we go into rooms at night is for checking vitals, changing incontinent residents and repositioning when/if needed. When your in a hospital vitals have to be checked constantly. They also need to monitor you pain levels. They are required to do many checks. I was so frustrated when I was in the hospital for 6 days and barely slept but also just understood its just them doing their jobs. I too don't fully understand why because all it did was stress me out more and you'd think sleep would be more beneficial to the healing process.
My physiology teacher in college was a GP. I hardly use any medicine anymore for head aches and fever because I learned not to fight fever. Eating well and rest helps me much more than paracetamol. I find often that GPs have a better insight then specialist because they are dealing with the small day to day things that get in the way of people's lives. Congratulations Dr Mike to try to give a little common sense to people ❤
That "water blister" one - My dad had something very similar after he had heart surgery. After returning home from the hospital he was sleeping in an armchair as it was more comfortable than lying down on his bed while still recovering. BUT, he refused to elevate his feet while he slept. He had a lot of fluid retention, which started to kind of pool on the top of (maybe just one of) his feet, and formed a huge blister like the one shown.
I work in healthcare and it is so scary all the false information that is out there and people will try these crazy things. Thank you for sharing real medical advice and information!
The second tiktok is a tradition from Catalunya (a region in Spain), they are called "castellers" which translates to castle builders. They create different structures, such as the ones in the video, and they are street performances that happen during important dates. There are also competitions of these, where different town's castellers will meet in a major square. There, the goal is to create a structure like the one in the video, have the "enxaneta" (which is the person that goes on top, a child with a helmet) climb to the top, raise their hand in the air, and take the figure down without falling. The team that creates the most difficult structure wins.
Thank you Doctor Mike for doing this to take down fake medical info! I've seen people saying stuff similar to this in college (I am a Pharmacy graduate) and it is honestly unbelievable that people actually follow and do these things, without even thinking about making sure it's true first, or considering the risks it could have in the human body
@@communicationbreakdown256 For sure. People try to stay away from the "scams of big pharma" and end up falling for other (sometimes very dangerous) scams like the stupid things those videos show
I've suffered a lifetime of insomnia that occasionally keeps me up for days on end and as of late it's gotten so bad it's scary, so I really appreciate him talking about these awful promises to magically cure genuine disabilities like mine. It really hurts when people tell me something will make me sleep 'cause for just a fraction of a second I get a little wisp of hope that maybe it really could help me, but it won't, and I know it won't, so then I just have to remind myself that there really isn't a guaranteed cure for one of my hardest and most painful struggles.
My spouse struggles with insomnia and neurological apnea. So CPAP machines make them sick 😣 just wish there was something else to help them. ❤ stay strong.
I have an idea you might try, it helped me. I suffered from insomnia for around 2 years. Not sure if yours is more severe, but you could try this. Get a couple of those wifi lights that can change color using an app on your phone, then schedule those lights to change color to reddish orange about an hour or two before going to bed, then off an hour after you go to bed or whenever. This was absolutely critical for getting myself into sleep mode. It probably costs 30 bucks for a couple lights, just replace the ones in your bedroom. I also have them set to turn on automatically with yellow light in the morning to simulate sunlight, but also try to get outside and look in the direction of the sun in the morning, even if it's cloudy. Beyond that, here's some other things. 1. No caffiene 8 hours before bedtime. Seriously, look up the half-life of caffiene. It lasts way longer than you think. I don't drink coffee or sodas anymore. If I do it's always early in the day and never past noon. If I want a soda in the afternoon I'll pick one without caffiene like root beer. If I want a pick me up in the morning, it's usually either green or black tea. 2. Write your thoughts down. Get them out of your head. Insomnia is caused by little bits of adrenaline released, usually due to stress. You can't sleep, so you begin to stress about tomorrow's lack of sleep, which makes you stress more, which makes you not able to sleep. It's a vicious cycle. 3. Stop TRYING to go to sleep. It seems counterintuitive, but if you're constantly worried about whether you will fall sleep, you will dread it when the time comes. You will think "well, I guess we'll see if I sleep" which means you're going to bed with stress. Just relax and if you can't sleep right away, tell yourself that's ok. Get up, have a little bite to eat, try to stay away from bright lights, although sometimes tv can relax you, and try not to beat yourself up over it. Let yourself become naturally tired. The key to falling asleep is to not stress over it. Love yourself and forgive yourself. You're only human. 4. Check the temperature in the room. It might just be too warm. Heat raises our cortisol, which wakes us up. So keep the room cool. If you find you like the room to be warm before you go to bed, then open a window before you get into bed so it's warm when you get in, and cool during night. Also, if you find yourself always cold, it might be due to a high carbohydrate diet. I was always cold when I was keeping my calories low to lose weight, but on a high carb diet. It slows your metabolism and you end up cold, which makes you reach for heat, which keeps you up. 5. Don't be too hungry or too full. Try not to gorge, especially on sugary foods before going to bed. A light snack is better. Hope this helps, friend.
I have that neck roller thing and it feels really good. My skin doesn't get pinched, but sometimes my hair gets caught. You just have to make sure your hair is completely out of the way. It's definitely worth a try.
@@youngcollector4212doesn’t sound dumb.. for me, it works when my neck is really sore after I’ve been sitting looking down for too long. I have some craft hobbies that require me to look down and really concentrate and I’m terrible about making sure I take breaks and stretch. So afterwards, I’ll use this to message the soreness and stiffness away. It definitely helps in that way. I wouldn’t expect it to help much if I had an injury or some kind of chronic issue.
Hi Dr. Mike, I wanted to mention that i got into a Health and Medical Science class bc of you, i’ve been watching your videos since i was in 6th grade, and now i’m a Sophomore in highschool, and your videos really mean a lot to me, they got me to where i am today and i’ll be taking an EMT class next year because of how much you’ve gotten me to be interested in the medical field!! :))
that's awesome! the medical field is so interesting and i think you'll really enjoy it. I'm a senior and i just started EMT school myself, goal is paramedic firefighter :) good luck and don't give up, i know it can seem like a lot at times but trust me it's worth it
the neck massager works really well. it helps relieve my tension in my neck better than anything else i’ve tried (excluding getting a massage from a person)
I love the Alzheimers/stroke/brain problems one because I have frontal lobe seizures and cerebellar dysplasia (meaning my brain is absolutely NOT healthy) but I can do that little trick lmao
1:15 I basically watched that video, so many long words like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, and theres an ad from the TV called "Acetaminelefrenocinnamon" and "Acetaminebrefintlefrenocinnamon"
I love how Dr Mike always expresses my inner thoughts so well…..only I can’t say them in front of my patients and their parents because if I did, I’d get fired. But this is honestly my inner monologue all the time…..
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the mere existence of this channel? It feels like a breath of fresh air compared to many other channels I see on YT nowadays, especially with the lack of politics (with notable yet mundane exceptions like his opinion on the Russian SMO on Ukraine).
Nice to hear you say there *should* be quiet time, but I can't think of a single hospital experience where I wasn't woken up every hour. When my son was born I had the Do Not Disturb sign up on the door and the nutritionist woke me up to ask me what I wanted for lunch (!)
I believe it’s actually just from rubbing your eyes when you’re tired. The skin around your eyes is really thin and your eyes get dry when you’re tired so you rub them more so, especially if you haven’t been getting enough sleep for multiple nights, it can cause some bruising basically which you can see through the under eye skin because it is so thin.
She had a scleral contact. The small item is a suction cup. But you don't remove the contact in the center of the eye You remove it at 2 or 5 oclock to avoid that situation and avoid warping the contact lens. Yes, I wear scleral contacts.
I learned about the history of medicine in England in school and the idea of transferring illness to a vegetable was literally from the renaissance period (c1500-1700) when they believed that if you rubbed a wart with an onion the wart would transfer to the onion. My class couldn't believe that this was a widely held belief, but I guess it was actually thing since people are still doing something similar today. 😭😫
Modern medicine is nothing more than a business to sell pharmaceutical drugs and injections. They very rarely cure anything that doesn't require antibiotics.
There will always be a subset of the population that will see any sort of random phenomenon and come up with their own explanation just to fill in the gaps and convince themselves that it is the unequivocal truth. That's just what happens when intelligence exists on a bell curve.
Some things are absolutely crazy. Some things do work though. Don't know the rhyme, reason or science behind it. Drops of peppermint oil in so much water. Dipping cloths in it and putting them on your pressure points like your forehead and neck helps reduce fevers. It sounds odd and I don't know the science behind it but it works. My mom did it for my brother when he was a baby before because medicine wasn't breaking it. Like I said, not sure how it works but it has. Something my family has done for many years.
My Husbands skin around his eyes is extremly dark. always has been. People keep asking him if he's had enough sleep on a daily basis. My mum even asked me if he was taking drugs. But nope. He just suffers from a lot of skin conditions and has very thin and sensitive skin. Especially around his eyes. Dr Mike is always right, dark circles around the eyes can have many reasons.
My mom and I have both used the blue masaugger and it slightly pinched the skin but for the most part it feels really nice and helps with the sore muscles! (:
I was in the hospital for 4 days after my stroke... I didn't get more than 2 hours of sleep a night because if an alarm wasn't going off, a nurse was waking me up to bother me about something that could've waited. 🙃
Oh man, those middle of the night alarms in the hospital, like 10 people push their call buttons at once plus IV machines and whatever else beeps non-stop and like 1 night nurse slowly not actually getting anything done. If I wasn't dosed up on all the good stuff like percs and more (car accident) I never would have slept a wink.
@@caelum2185 I don't remember the quantity or dosage, just getting some every like 6ish hours. They let me sleep pretty good, but made me sweaty and itchy. Also had gapapentin, high dosages of ibuprofen and who knows what else unless I pull out the line item charges. The physical rehab place was oxy instead of percs as well as lidocaine patches.
What I love about doctor mike is that…he takes time to understand peoples opinions even if it’s good or bad. He’s truly a gentlemen and one of my biggest inspirations ♥️
As a nephew of a nurse, I react exactly like Mike. As a person with common f€%king sense, I also react like Mike. Ignorant people sharing fake facts pisses me off😂
12:17 ‘Your lungs are the lower part of your face’ Dr mike- ‘NO YOUR LUNGS ARE HERE IN YOUR CHEST CAVITY’ ‘and your stomach is the upper cheek’ Dr mike- ‘NO YOUR STOMACH IS ALSO IN YOUR ABDOMIN!, it has nothing to do with your cheek’ ‘And your temple area *creepily points to temple area* it’s connected directly to your liver’ Dr mike- ‘NO. ITS. NOT’ Honestly respect for this man correcting all the misinformation in this one video
Absolutely loved your rant about supplements but then legitimately laughed out loud about you saying, if you prescribed a medication for reflux and it never helping them you'd question it. I laughed because reflux meds have NEVER worked for me and last year I got a 23andMe gemetic test done and it literally told me I'm genetically a slow absorber to many meds, including top meds for reflux and Plavix which is a blood thinning agent! I guess it's a good thing I have not one but TWO IVC FILTERS!!! Incidental finding along with an extra piece of spleen.
4:37, that's my friend Prescott!!! It's awesome every time we find a RUclips or Tik Tok clip of it!!!!! I think it's been 5-8 years and we're still finding them. For the questions that always come after: yes, he still has the helmet for sentimental value; no, he did not suffer long-term damage from the fall; yes, he does wear a helmet EVERY SINGLE competition, but not always for basic road, yes always for ramps, bowls, tricks etc..; yes he still skates religiously today. Other videos you can find of him are fun skate and hand slide videos, pretty roads and steep hills type; so, sorry, but no there aren't a bunch of Steve-o style videos of trying to hurt himself 😆 Really cool dude and is the first to tell people not to be an idiot, and wear your helmet so you can keep skating longer.
I can confirm- the neck massager is garbage. It’s super hard to get it to roll on your neck and does pinch the skin @doctormike 8:22 Also - even though it triggers you Dr. Mike, I appreciate that you combat misinformation over and over - especially with the growing use of tik tok where there is just *so much nonsense* I wish there was a better way to regulate tick tok when it comes to medical advice.
FROM AN OPHTHALMOLOGY OPERATING ROOM NURSE-That blue thing that your saw go on the eye and pull on the eye is a rubber stopper we use to remove corneal shields after having ocular plastic surgeries. The shields go in the eyes to protect the cornea while the lids are operated on. That was so stupid! They could have caused an eye injury or dislocated the eyeball out of orbit!
1:15 No one will understand how excited I got seeing Daniel Thrasher in this video. He is one of my favorite RUclipsrs and so is Doctor Mike. I am on cloud nine right now.
I think he gets so stressed because if people actually beleive all of these things they can get seriously hurt or lose a lot of money on bs 'detox' clenses
12:45 stating that there is no connection is suspect. The brain and the body are a connected circuit. If something doesn't work right in one place it is going to impact the whole system. I can go much deeper here, but it gets kind of abstract so I will refrain unless anyone is interested in hearing my rant about how different brain wirings, organizations, and neurologics can have more visible impact on different sections of the body than others while still impacting the whole. (ex. something impacting your face more visibly or your chest, or hips, or legs, etc. or skin vs. bone vs. muscle vs. nerves, etc. while still impacting the whole body)
I grew up in texas with doctors that never took me seriously and would completely ignore any issues I had because I was young. Now my health issues have gotten worse and at age 18 I need to walk around with a cane among other issues. Because of all I went through I still have a lot of distrust towards doctors and a lot of medical anxiety worrying whether I'll be taken seriously or not, even now that I live in California with much better doctors. It means a lot to me to watch your videos and see how you think of patients on a more individual level and how you genuinely care about the suffering they're going through. I wish I had a doctor like you when I was growing up.
Similar situation here. I have zero trust in doctors now. I trust myself only and treat my medical appointments with skepticism and like a business manager trying to get things done.
Rather late to the video, but that sort of roller (and similar) is great for use in the days after bad tonic-clonic seizures. Helps with muscle pain immensely.
8:30 The bagel-shaped edema was actually a body modification fad in the early 2000s. It's done be injecting saline under the person's skin. The effect only lasts about 12 hours.
11:12 Do you think she would believe someone if they told her that potatoes oxidize when exposed to air causing them to turn that color? I knew that as a child.
Honestly respect to this man for fighting misinformation with such enthusiasm and persistence.
Not when he also pushes misinformation. Cheers
@@SonOfMuta oh grow up.
@@GeologicalNerd You grow up
@@SonOfMutawhat misinformation
@@SonOfMuta when? please provide an instance where he does this if you want me to believe you.
I love how passionate Dr. Mike gets about his patients with insomnia. As someone with awful insomnia, it's so nice to hear a doctor say that it's not something you can just fix with a life hack or two
It took me into my mid 30s to learn that I'm just _extremely_ photosensitive, so investing in proper blackout curtains & moving everything with a glow or even single diode (like the modem + router) out of my bedroom cured the insomnia episodes & constant shallow+poor-quality sleep rhythms I'd struggled with since I was a small child. Sometimes it's that simple, but often it's not.
Ppl who swear their life hack will solve someone's sleep-condition cheese me right off. It's so dismissive.
Yep. Not all about the pills or zzz studies.
I truly feel for those that have trouble sleeping. I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypersomnia with long sleep cycles, so the complete opposite problem. I wouldn't wish either hypersomnia nor insomnia on anyone. My husband suffers from insomnia and he tells me all the time, "I wish I could just fall asleep like you do." I keep trying to tell him that no, he does not, because falling asleep at a red light or while working [just a couple examples] is not a good thing.
same!! I have chronic insomnia due to my PTSD and the only way I can get any restful sleep is taking THC edibles before bed. "just tape your mouth" is such bullshit.
@@MsAubrey I also get that response a lot as someone else with Idiopathic Hypersomnia, so I completely understand. It's nowhere near as nice as some people think it is.
Dr. Mike, thank you for shedding light on the crazy quackery that is unfortunately everywhere. When I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma my neighbor tried very hard to talk me out of doing chemotherapy and try some weird concoction using apricot seeds. She was adamant that I was likely going to die if I went with conventional western medicine. I didn't listen to her and I'm happy to say 13 years later I'm here cancer free.
Congratulations on being cancer-free for 13 years! My uncle had a similar situation to this. He was feeling sick recently and his neighbor gave him a concoction that she said worked for her father when he had the same symptoms. Turns out he was having a problem with his gaul bladder and her concoction was making it worse, so he eventually had to get it removed. Some people are just insane.
Congratulations :)
I'm glad you are still with us! I know some people just totally loose balance, wester medicine has hurt a lot of families, but it has also saved a lot of families, nothing is one size fits all. Here is to many more years for you!
I was diagnosed follicula non hodgkin's lymphoma 11yrs ago no treatment still here, I won't be having TREATMENT NO CURE,GOD BLESS YOU HOPE YOU STAY HEALTHY.
That's so dangerous! I'm glad you didn't listen.
Garlic as an antibiotic immediately followed by a probiotic is also unintentionally hilarious
Lmaoo It's like putting fire extinguisher on a surface and try to light it up afterwards
Sure. If it had antibiotic and not antiseptic properties in the first place...meaning eating it defeats the purpose 😂
I love your comment “We don’t fix patients. They fix themselves.” I went to the doctor six moths ago and found out I had very high blood pressure and was at risk for heart attack or stroke. I started actually paying attention to what I ate, started eating 1,500 mg of sodium a day and only 25 grams of added sugar a day, started eating healthier and stopped eating out, started walking daily and going to the gym three days a week. Now I’ve lost 45 pounds and my blood pressure is excellent. Without the doctor though I wouldn’t have known there was an issue.
Exactly! Doctors are wonderful and the work they do is fantastic, but at the end of the day they find the problem and it’s up to us to listen to their advice and use that advice to allow our bodies to do what it needs to do to get healthy. Even after surgeries the biggest part of that is to let your body rest so that it can begin healing itself as efficiently as possible!
😊😊 please a and
I was on a similar road. Morbid obesity, terrible eating habits, no exercise. Nearly stroked out at 34. Huge wake-up call. I still struggle with weight, but I haven't had fast food since 2017, cut WAY back on sodas and alcohol, started walking more (thanks Pokémon GO), and now I beat Diabetes II and have a resting heart rate under 70 bpm.
1,500mg of sodium? Is that a typo? 1,500 is a still a lot. I assume you meant 500mg?
@@vanessagoddess1 "The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) a day and moving toward an ideal limit of no more than 1,500 mg per day for most adults." 1500 mg = 150 cg = 15 dg = 1.5 g
"We don't fix patients. Patients fix themselves"
This is why I like Dr. Mike
Exactly! "Patients fix themselves!" I don't get why he is so mad over the placebo treatments like the potato.
Alexander the potato is not real. Wth are you saying???
edit: DANNGGGGGGGG I GOT 24 LIKES ALREADY?? TYYYYY I CANT TYPE.
Ccc
@@dani_ed1ts It's more real than homeopathy. I mean you can make vodka from it. Or memes. Or vodka memes...
Or I didn't know.
I LOVE how passionate Mike is about medicine, science and facts. We need more doctors like this.
but do you LOVE HELMETS?
@@hoomantay i LOVE HELMETS.
I also love how passionate he is about partying on a boat during c0vid 19
I had dangue fever and i was in the ICU and there were so many beeps and alarm tones just going off
I had low platelet and gum bleed and as soon as I finally slept i choked on a small amount of blood and the doctors came rushing pulled the curtains and looked at the moniter and they were asking me questions and if i was awake
Scariest night of my life
yes! he gets so annoyed and it's hilarious. I love when he debunks
7:00 - 7:25 "Alarm fatigue" almost got me killed once. I used to live in a fairly seedy neighborhood, I was in college and broke and it was all I could afford, and I didn’t have a car so I walked everywhere. All summer long it was 90°+ so I wore shorts/skirts, and all summer long people were constantly honking their horns and catcalling me. Eventually I ended up learning to tune out the sound of car horns and yelling from cars. One day I was walking and someone started honking and yelling, and ofc I ignored it thinking it was just another catcall, but it turned out they were trying to warn me a drunk driver had jumped the curb and was driving very fast up the sidewalk behind me. The only reason I didn't get hit was because they hit a light pole before they could hit me. It was very scary and very eye-opening, and it's one of the major reasons why I yell at people so ferociously for honking and catcalling now
Man, I never thought about the possibility of something like this happening... I never really go outside alone so I've only been catcalled once. I'm sorry that you've had to deal with that and I'm glad you're okay!
@@MB-ev9ixnever is wild 😭
@@jordancarmack584whats an emergency signal horn?
There's no emergency horn, and there is a thing called hazard lights. And there's a thing called a horn. But whats this emergency horn?
@@John-Smith02horns should only be used in emergency situations (like urgent transportation to a hospital or someone is going to the opposite lane while distracted). Horns are NOT used for expressing frustration, arousal or waving at someone.
@@spackseries4400 with all due respect, you're not the person I was asking.
And there is at least one non emergency reason horns should be used for: if someone is at a green light for a while and hasn't moved(if there's no obvious obstruction or anything that would make it dangerous to proceed).
My dad could not breathe through his nose for a prolonged period of time. Luckily, his friend is an ENT and had him come in for an exam. He had a cancerous tumor that was blocking his nasal passage. Luckily he listened to doctors instead of TikTokers and got it checked out.
at first i was puzzled and thought your dad's friend was an Ent as in them tree creatures in Tolkien's LoTR
@@votre_il8802They're taking her dad to Isengard!
@@avynlie 😂
@@avynlie *father
It sounds better, because "father" has the same amount of syllables as "hobbits".
Nice
5:35 I love how she included DEPRESSION as a PARASITE or a symptom thereof. Thank you tiktok lady, I had no idea 80% of people have depression caused by parasites. Turns out, I've probably been taking the wrong medication, and taking therapy for no reason since the problem is that I have parasites.
IDK, parasites that cause fatigue (like hookworm) could def be considered to have depression as a symptom. It's hard not to be depressed when you have no energy to take care of yourself, esp if you don't know why you are suffering. And with the gut/brain connection only just being understood there's plenty of room to consider how parasites might effect mood. But that doesn't mean they can say that everyone who has depression can be *assumed* to also have parasites, that's totally *backwards*... Esp now that most people live in conditions sanitary enough to prevent issues like hookworm I wouldn't imagine most medical professionals are going to jump to parasites for a patient who is presenting with depression and isn't, you know, using an outhouse barefoot or eating raw game or any other obvious environmental risk factors.
Human parasites in your life can cause depression.
Better get on those papaya seeds!!!
Day 33 of hitting my ankles with a scooter on purpose-until I cry😂 I no longer feel pain
3:33 I just use mr clean on my skin also butter and olive oil salt nice clean look at the end 😂 👌👌🧑🏻🦲
"We don't fix patients they fix themselves" most honest thing I ever heard out of a medical professionals mouth.
As a pharmacist Intern I agree. It's like the saying "You can bring a horse to water but you can't force it to drink.". Getting help and following the directions given by the health care professional is ultimately the patients choice.
"I grow fruit and vegetables."
"No you don't."
Doctors are the rythm correctors to our blood circulation. The heart does the work well, and cuz the heart might have issues, the rythm corrector shocks it back into correct beat when abnormal.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia Yeah, they force them to.
I'm an EFL teacher, and that's kind of true of language teachers, too. The students that will learn the language the best are the ones that speak it with their friends, watch TV and movies in that language, and regularly use it outside of class. I seriously doubt if there's a single person on Earth who learned a language exclusively through what was taught in the classroom.
"You immediately know whats wrong with you when you drink your own pee in the morning"
He aint wrong there.
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Agreed
I literally had a coworker like this.
He said he doesn't drink enough water, so when he doesn't feel good he knows it's just dehydration. 🙄
I knew a girl who'd eat raw garlic in the morning and I once asked her, "you know you can chop that up and throw it in an omelet right?" She was flabbergasted.
OH MY GOSH U USED FLABBERGASTED!!! ur amazing
Roast garlic is my family's favorite snack 😂 I don't know how much a person can eat, sometimes they ask me to cook more
@@NessieNice Roast garlic is definitely a top tier snack. Im more of a sautéed zucchini kinda guy tho
Raw is better. Best with Ssamjang.
@@bobtheduck you guys be eating raw garlic?
You know he's a good, reliable doctor by how stressed he gets about silly things. That's passion.
Yea
I just love how this guy is not afraid to admit that hes not perfect and even if he makes mistakes, he doesnt cry over it or try to hide it, he embraces his imperfection and learns from them, and thats what i love!
3:49 I’be on board with this except when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s, the doctor prescribed me Lialda and said “this really won’t do anything for Crohn’s” That’s when I became disillusioned with the medical system. She KNEW it didn’t work and felt no need to ask herself the question of why she was prescribing it.
I mean. Its a weird interaction in general. There are weird and even bad doctors, just go to another where there's no obvious signs of cognitive dissonance 😊
I guess sometimes you need to prove that that was tried before you can get something that does help.
Tbh, likely insurance reasons? I had one med we trialled knee on, and knew worked. But insurance was like "nah, try the other stuff with more side effects first".
@@StonedtotheBones13
Ive heard that they use a med with NASTY side effects to confirm manic-depressive (prev. Bipolar), and then swap you to other stuff.
What I learned today:
-- the stomach is in your cheeks
-- potatoes are bad
-- garlic is good
-- avocadoes should go on your feet
Thanks doctor Mike! ☺
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@@francisdoyle6199 Relax , He’s just joking
What I learned was people shouldn't quite there day job😊
garlic tastes good tho
@@Name_InProgress I know
8:25 My mom used this one time and it not only gave her neck pain, but irritated the skin so bad she had to see a doctor. What a amazing product 🤩
"What a amazing product 🤩" is (hopefully) the exact opposite of your genuine opinion.
@@mara_moon13 your response is so confusing i genuinely don't know if you are being sarcastic towards sarcasm or if it's just plain stupidity.
@@mara_moon13 it's obv that they're opinion on the product is the opposite of what they wrote lol. It's sarcasm
@@mara_moon13 It’s... it’s sarcasm- 😶🌫
oh my days no way you're real@@mara_moon13
It's so crazy to me how much information and names are stored in medical staffs brains. It's so impressive
I mean after 4-10 years of learning I’d know so much
Its less about remembering names, its more about understanding the root words of those names. You can guess many medical terms if you just happen to have learned a few and the prefixes, suffixes, etc.
@@zeallust8542 yep. That's the main "secret" (I got CNA in 2002)
@@JenniferF2882 Yeah, at the end of the day its just latin (and a lil Greek)
it’s because the years of trauma of sleepless nights😂
Mike I love you! Honestly! I love the way you express yourself and it looks like you have an amazing bedside manner. But the reality is I work for EMS and I have lost faith in our health system. Is really sad but the majority of the people who work there are burn out and have become numb and careless. We need more doctors like you! Honestly!
God bless you and give you a very long and healthy life! Keep up the good work brother!
That tape over the mouth things scares me. My mom snores horrifically, whenever my family is on a vacation or something and I can hear her snoring it's like all I want is for it to stop, but the second it does I sit up in a panic and have to check if she is still breathing.
i’m pretty sure thats sleep apnea
Definitely have your mom go to the doctor and see if she has sleep apena. Undiagnosed sleep apena will shorten her life by YEARS!
@@TChalla616What? How
@@stannisthemannis4199 People with sleep apena have a much higher rate of cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. It also causes daytime sleepiness which could contribute to a higher rate of motor vehicle accidents. In other words sleep apena wreaks havoc on your heart, and over time stresses it out to the point of early failure.
That could be sleep apnea itll shorten her life span and can be quite serious. Get her checked tf out
4:38 This man is a legend. Rather than whining about his fall, he was just super glad he had a helmet haha. That was a super hard fall too, that helmet did a lot of work.
When youve fall like that you know the helmet saved your life -experience in falling on my face
so true, really wholesome to see tbh
I love the fact that the most replayed section of the video is exactly the timestamp you put because people reading the comments always click it and go there, lol
@@Asdfboy_ I didnt even realize this comment blew up lol
I knew someone that cracked his bicycle helmet in half before. Twice actually. Definitely saved his life.
Oh my goodness. Thank you for saying patients need rest to recover. 5 years ago I spent 30 hours in intense, traumatic labor and the staff wouldn't let me sleep afterwards. I was constantly being harassed with nurses giving meds, taking vitals, hospital management, etc. I even had people come in to ask about payment methods. I wanted to scream and cry by the end of it. And it went on for 4 days because of complications. The trauma of that experience was horrific.
Similar thing happened to me in the icu after a very severe car accident. I told all of my nurses and doctors, if I don't ring the bell, let me rest. After a few days of me being a constant prick they finally got the picture and I was able to rest whenever I felt I could.
The vitals and meds are important too
I wish any doctor I've ever been to in my life had had even 10% of the logic skills and care for people's health of Dr Mike.
About a year ago my grandmother (who lives in a state far away from us; we are all in India) told us that she could feel a lump in her breast. True to much of Indians of that generation she chose to go to a homeopathic doctor. Not only did the doctor not order any tests beyond a physical exam, he prescribed bullshit medicines and gaslit her and my aunt into agreeing with him that the size was reducing. Fortunately I met her about a month after this "treatment" and immediately upon looking and feeling it myself; booked an appointment with a gynaecologist. It turned out to be stage 2 cancer with three negatives. Complex case but after a lumpectomy, many rounds of chemo and radiation, she is all clear and healthy now. It honestly frustrates me that there is quite a possibility that the treatment could have been less severe for her had she gone to a proper doctor a month before, but nevertheless, she is good now.
Respect to u for being able to write such a long story
@@mushroomgal5871So you don’t care that he’s grandmother got stage two cancer
My mom feeled a lump in her breast too. Guess what it waaaas? Stage 3 cancer. Mhm, but she's doing good now. Bad thing is, she cant be on direct sunlight at day too much and stay away from hot temperature stuff etc etc yeah im bad at english.
wish men had a custom doctor for our genitals...... sucks having to go to a standard MD for questions about prostate/testicular cancer.
that aside, glad you guys went to the right person and your grandma is safe.
@@Chip-Chapley urologists specialize in that
Mike's fashion aesthetic getting progressively darker and darker from when he was wearing just plain, light blue scrubs to now in all black has me thinking the misinformed internet is forcing him to start his villain origin story.
I love this comment!!! Best one so far!!! He really is on the verge🤪
@@lenaokubajo9685 Every outburst he has, I hold my breath a little and wait for the villain to emerge. 💀
Now he just needs sunglasses and a bad German accent
Omg yesss this 😂❤
dr. mike villain era but he just breaks into these people's houses and steals their router so they have a much harder time posting misinformation
As a person who suffered from huge polyps since basically 6 years old, and only figured it out at 21, and suffer from allergies daily, AND insomnia. I appreciate you so much for debunking so many health frauds on TikTok, only If I could meet you sooner in life maybe I could take care of myself better since my parents couldn't. ♥
My mom has a severe deviation to her septum. Has her whole life and always breathes from her mouth. She ended up getting a rhinoplasty to ‘’try ‘’ and fix and widen , well that ended up not working and the surgeon did more damage to it and ended up developing sleep apnea from the damage. Had to get another Dr to check her out and he saw the damage that was done and it wasn’t worth going back in to repair it and he said because of this it caused the sleep apnea. It sucks as she’s now been on a cpap for over 20 plus years now all because she was told the surgery will fix her nose and make her breathe easily and from her nose.
@@brandiehammond I'm sorry your Mum went through that. That surgeon was clearly not the caliber of doctor that Dr. Mike is because he made false promises.
@@brandiehammond That is very sad, because sometimes a rhinoplasty can fix a deviated septum and help.
the video at 9:04 is likely someone getting a scleral/gas-permeable rigid contact removed. Since they're hard like glass/plastic, they need a special suction tool to remove and sometimes the suction can be so set that trying to remove the lense pulls on your actual eye. In this case, you're supposed to take the plunger and angle it at the bottom of the contact so you can break the seal against your eye.
Source: I have Keratoconus and use scleral contacts to see.
I use contacts, never had to deal with that. Hope I don't have to!:)
Thank you, I was specifically reading the comments to find an answer for that one.
When my mom was in college, she didn't take her contacts out before a nap and when she woke up, she couldn't get her contact out. Went to the nurse and she used the little plunger thing you mentioned. Turns out the contact had popped out in her sleep (yes her and my grandmother are freaks who sleep with eyes open) so the nurse was plunging her bare eye.
@@EurydiceAllAlong Damn.
@7:05 When my mom was in for cancer treatments, her room was right next to the nurses station. I decided to stay the night with her because she didn't want to be alone. She said she kept getting woken up through out the night so I felt if she had some company she would be ok. Through out the entire night I stayed, we were both constantly woken up by the nurses station having their personal phones alerting them to new TikTok videos, having loud gossip fests, and this lasted from 11pm until 8am and now my mom and I both have a permanent fear of phone noises. True alert fatigue at it's finest.
i had to stay in the hospital bc i broke my back(its not bad just a small crack i can still walk) at about 5am i would hear nurses making coffee and talking with each other in the other room, sometimes watching tiktoks on their phones or just other background noise
at about 4-6am they would check my temperature then it starts to become hard to sleep bc the room barely had any blinds so i covered my eyes with my blanket
sometimes my back would hurt a lot making it even harder to sleep
also hows your mom now? my mom also had cancer treatment in 2019 she survived it cancer is gone
One night of dealing with noise has given you a "permanent fear of phone noise"? Sounds like you need to touch grass..
@SamIAm10262 Being deprived of sleep in an unfamiliar environment in a prolonged high-stress situation? I can't stand alarm noises that I've used for too long, so this sounds pretty reasonable to me. I think that perhaps the judgy contrarian among us should touch grass instead.
@@SamIAm10262 phonophobia is the fear of all sudden noises or loud noises. Research before you wreck the comments
I would have complained to the nurse supervisor about that. Your only job as a patient while in the hospital is to rest and focus on healing. Sleep is incredibly important for that process. If they can't keep their personal phones quiet then they need to ban them from the area.
Dr. Mike literally saved my life. I had C Diff and the only reason I went in was because Dr. Mike had said in one if his videos having the runs and throwing up at the same time is never good.
That's crazy I got cdiff last year. It took almost a month to get diagnosed and it took three rounds of antibiotics to heal
there’s this book that mentions c diff - called turtles all the way down. Totally random but you should read it
C diff is really painful. My mom had it twice. I hope you’re feeling better now.
@@thedoremegirlit’s crazy how different peoples bodies can be. you cleared your c.diff my taking antibiotics. i got c.diff bc i was taking TOO MUCH antibiotics from years of chronic sinus infections. i had to get an injection to clear it and i get it every time i take antibiotics for more than a couple of days.
Um, I only really throw up when both ends are spasming. My body is kinda held together with the medical equivalent of duct tape and hope(titanium screws and optimism?). I'm a bit of a freak that can't die in spite of how many times my body has tried to shut down.
imagine the confusion on a robber's face when they break into your home and see that you taped your own mouth shut.
like, I know there are other concerns in that moment. But can you just...imagine?
Omg lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You got me laughing bro, that's all I can imagine now haha
That's funny and creates a great mental picture lol
Literally, the BEST laugh all day!
I used to live in Dubai. There is a spice market there, and every store sells saffron with claims that say “Saffron increases your sexual potential” and “saffron decreases your risk of heart disease and cancer by 50%”. I need Dr Mike to react to this.
The fact that one lady said that the stomach is in your cheeks.. goes to show how truly important it is to take your kids to school
I agree
You just single handedly destroyed her in one single sentence
She probably did. Don’t forget….men can be women. Stomach cheek doesn’t sound so bizarre now, does it?
@@debbylou5729 let's not do this Debby, at least not now
@@debbylou5729 thanks for the unneeded strawman and comment no one wanted 👍
I love how insistent Dr. Mike is about facts and science, bc he's so worried somebody could come to harm. He's such lovely guy
i love watching doctor mike rage about the stupid thing people say. your cheeks are connected to your stomach. XD
because dry ice is tasty. i know from experience. @Cheap-Gaming
I love how he speaks legit facts instead of saying inaccurate information. I like how he’s not like these other “doctors” on social media that are saying random, incorrect things and how he calls them out for it.
That says more about the other “doctors” than Dr Mike, as he is doing the right thing. It should be the default.
And that he's open about saying he doesn't know about something and willing to do research about it.
"Patients need rest to recover" OMG, THIS so much. I had pre-eclampsia when my son was born. And my blood pressure would be fine, until the nurses came in to do their checks and would startle wake me and I kept saying "If you would just stay out or be more quiet while I sleep it would jolt up!"
His frustration is adorable. I'm at home recovering from surgery and have been binging these videos. I also work in the medical field. Diagnosis: Major crush on Dr. Mike!
What kind
"How are we still alive after thousands of years without 'detoxing our bodies'"
To hear a doctor this sarcastic gives me hope for the future of medicine.
You are absolutely right about patients needing to SLEEP in the hospital. I've been in the hospital so many times - longest was for four months, and it felt like every 20 minutes at night someone would come in to check something - blood pressure, change the trash can bag (yes, this happened and I was like, "wtf...."), clean the room, check on my monitor, check the drainage, check the catheter, whatever, but the hospital is the WORST place for trying to get sleep..... unless they put you in a coma. That works really well :P
I want to thank you for saying that hospitals should set aside time for patients to actually rest. My mom has ended up in the hospital a few times, and at one they kept waking her up every few hours, she wasn't getting any sleep, and when she complained, they actually told her hospitals weren't places for getting sleep. Isn't sleep deprivation counterintuitive for healing?
Usually patients have to be rotated every 2-3 hours so they won’t get bed sores. That could have been the reason for all the disruption.
That's only if a patient is immobile. I work in a nursing home and the only times we go into rooms at night is for checking vitals, changing incontinent residents and repositioning when/if needed. When your in a hospital vitals have to be checked constantly. They also need to monitor you pain levels. They are required to do many checks. I was so frustrated when I was in the hospital for 6 days and barely slept but also just understood its just them doing their jobs. I too don't fully understand why because all it did was stress me out more and you'd think sleep would be more beneficial to the healing process.
@@BambiBryant Well every 5 seconds they keep waking patients up. My mom was overly tired when she came home from the hospital.
This! When I was in the hospital for 10 days due to preeclampsia that resulted in a c-section! Was so tired!🙄
Sleep deprivation is a form of torture.
When I first started watching Doctor Mike I thought his suffering was funny. Now I suffer with him.
This!!
me too 🤣🤣
I agree!
Lol exactly 🤣🤣
My physiology teacher in college was a GP. I hardly use any medicine anymore for head aches and fever because I learned not to fight fever. Eating well and rest helps me much more than paracetamol. I find often that GPs have a better insight then specialist because they are dealing with the small day to day things that get in the way of people's lives. Congratulations Dr Mike to try to give a little common sense to people ❤
But headaches hurt and make functioning nearly impossible
“God why am I so angry?!” Story of my life.
As someone with insomnia, I really appreciate you talking about how harmful "best sleep you've ever had" hacks are.
That "water blister" one - My dad had something very similar after he had heart surgery.
After returning home from the hospital he was sleeping in an armchair as it was more comfortable than lying down on his bed while still recovering. BUT, he refused to elevate his feet while he slept.
He had a lot of fluid retention, which started to kind of pool on the top of (maybe just one of) his feet, and formed a huge blister like the one shown.
I work in healthcare and it is so scary all the false information that is out there and people will try these crazy things. Thank you for sharing real medical advice and information!
The second tiktok is a tradition from Catalunya (a region in Spain), they are called "castellers" which translates to castle builders. They create different structures, such as the ones in the video, and they are street performances that happen during important dates. There are also competitions of these, where different town's castellers will meet in a major square. There, the goal is to create a structure like the one in the video, have the "enxaneta" (which is the person that goes on top, a child with a helmet) climb to the top, raise their hand in the air, and take the figure down without falling. The team that creates the most difficult structure wins.
As an asthmatic the advice to tape my mouth shut while I sleep almost qualifies as attempted murder 😂
My nose plugs up so bad at night that it would also kill me haha
Same! If I was ever kidnapped and had my mouth taped I don’t think I’d make it 😂😂
My thoughts exactly
@@cinnamonsparrowdesigns omg same
The guy with the big finger where he said my bone is moving
Thats a fake thumb and thats his finger moving in there
Thank you Doctor Mike for doing this to take down fake medical info! I've seen people saying stuff similar to this in college (I am a Pharmacy graduate) and it is honestly unbelievable that people actually follow and do these things, without even thinking about making sure it's true first, or considering the risks it could have in the human body
Those people against " big pharma" will try everything else that's quackery though.
@@communicationbreakdown256 For sure. People try to stay away from the "scams of big pharma" and end up falling for other (sometimes very dangerous) scams like the stupid things those videos show
I love how indignant he is! Mad integrity, passion, and professional and community dedication.
I just got to say, I appreciate his editors. When dr. mike it explains what's happening. They show you. I just love that.
I've suffered a lifetime of insomnia that occasionally keeps me up for days on end and as of late it's gotten so bad it's scary, so I really appreciate him talking about these awful promises to magically cure genuine disabilities like mine. It really hurts when people tell me something will make me sleep 'cause for just a fraction of a second I get a little wisp of hope that maybe it really could help me, but it won't, and I know it won't, so then I just have to remind myself that there really isn't a guaranteed cure for one of my hardest and most painful struggles.
You are strong. Keep that.
Take three xanac
My spouse struggles with insomnia and neurological apnea. So CPAP machines make them sick 😣 just wish there was something else to help them. ❤ stay strong.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 No. What a stupid comment.
I have an idea you might try, it helped me. I suffered from insomnia for around 2 years. Not sure if yours is more severe, but you could try this. Get a couple of those wifi lights that can change color using an app on your phone, then schedule those lights to change color to reddish orange about an hour or two before going to bed, then off an hour after you go to bed or whenever.
This was absolutely critical for getting myself into sleep mode. It probably costs 30 bucks for a couple lights, just replace the ones in your bedroom. I also have them set to turn on automatically with yellow light in the morning to simulate sunlight, but also try to get outside and look in the direction of the sun in the morning, even if it's cloudy.
Beyond that, here's some other things.
1. No caffiene 8 hours before bedtime. Seriously, look up the half-life of caffiene. It lasts way longer than you think. I don't drink coffee or sodas anymore. If I do it's always early in the day and never past noon. If I want a soda in the afternoon I'll pick one without caffiene like root beer. If I want a pick me up in the morning, it's usually either green or black tea.
2. Write your thoughts down. Get them out of your head. Insomnia is caused by little bits of adrenaline released, usually due to stress. You can't sleep, so you begin to stress about tomorrow's lack of sleep, which makes you stress more, which makes you not able to sleep. It's a vicious cycle.
3. Stop TRYING to go to sleep. It seems counterintuitive, but if you're constantly worried about whether you will fall sleep, you will dread it when the time comes. You will think "well, I guess we'll see if I sleep" which means you're going to bed with stress. Just relax and if you can't sleep right away, tell yourself that's ok. Get up, have a little bite to eat, try to stay away from bright lights, although sometimes tv can relax you, and try not to beat yourself up over it. Let yourself become naturally tired. The key to falling asleep is to not stress over it. Love yourself and forgive yourself. You're only human.
4. Check the temperature in the room. It might just be too warm. Heat raises our cortisol, which wakes us up. So keep the room cool. If you find you like the room to be warm before you go to bed, then open a window before you get into bed so it's warm when you get in, and cool during night. Also, if you find yourself always cold, it might be due to a high carbohydrate diet. I was always cold when I was keeping my calories low to lose weight, but on a high carb diet. It slows your metabolism and you end up cold, which makes you reach for heat, which keeps you up.
5. Don't be too hungry or too full. Try not to gorge, especially on sugary foods before going to bed. A light snack is better.
Hope this helps, friend.
I have that neck roller thing and it feels really good. My skin doesn't get pinched, but sometimes my hair gets caught. You just have to make sure your hair is completely out of the way. It's definitely worth a try.
thanks. came to the comments to find this one. looking it up now.
I just did the exact same thing lmao- its a necessity @@maryellen9503
but does it work for your neck tho? I know this sounds dumb but there is a difference when somethings feels good and when it actually works
@@youngcollector4212doesn’t sound dumb.. for me, it works when my neck is really sore after I’ve been sitting looking down for too long. I have some craft hobbies that require me to look down and really concentrate and I’m terrible about making sure I take breaks and stretch. So afterwards, I’ll use this to message the soreness and stiffness away. It definitely helps in that way. I wouldn’t expect it to help much if I had an injury or some kind of chronic issue.
@@twentyonethirteen oh well that's good for you then. (ps. no sarcasm)
Hi Dr. Mike, I wanted to mention that i got into a Health and Medical Science class bc of you, i’ve been watching your videos since i was in 6th grade, and now i’m a Sophomore in highschool, and your videos really mean a lot to me, they got me to where i am today and i’ll be taking an EMT class next year because of how much you’ve gotten me to be interested in the medical field!! :))
that's awesome! the medical field is so interesting and i think you'll really enjoy it. I'm a senior and i just started EMT school myself, goal is paramedic firefighter :) good luck and don't give up, i know it can seem like a lot at times but trust me it's worth it
7:14 This part literally gave me anxiety with all those alarms going off like that was horrible pff
I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist and I have several of those neck massagers. They are AMAZING.
Link or name? 😊
Hi! Former massage therapist here ( retired due to rheumatoid arthritis) I have never used a massage tool that worked as well as hands.
the neck massager works really well. it helps relieve my tension in my neck better than anything else i’ve tried (excluding getting a massage from a person)
What kind is it?
Skin doesn't get caught either
Purchase link pls?
I love the Alzheimers/stroke/brain problems one because I have frontal lobe seizures and cerebellar dysplasia (meaning my brain is absolutely NOT healthy) but I can do that little trick lmao
BUT you don't have Alzheimer's xD
1:15
I basically watched that video, so many long words like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, and theres an ad from the TV called "Acetaminelefrenocinnamon" and "Acetaminebrefintlefrenocinnamon"
Don't forget "vitameatavegimen" that Lucy pimped.
I love how Dr Mike always expresses my inner thoughts so well…..only I can’t say them in front of my patients and their parents because if I did, I’d get fired. But this is honestly my inner monologue all the time…..
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the mere existence of this channel? It feels like a breath of fresh air compared to many other channels I see on YT nowadays, especially with the lack of politics (with notable yet mundane exceptions like his opinion on the Russian SMO on Ukraine).
rip, the spambots are annoying. but yeah!! this really is like a nice break.
I love your outrage at all the nonsense out there. Thanks for keeping us informed Dr. Mike 🙂.
I have one of those neck massagers and love it. My skin doesn’t get caught, but I do need to make sure my hair doesn’t get snagged.
Yet another video proving that Caroline the editor needs a raise. She adds *so much* quality to Doctor Mike's videos.
Doctor Mike replied in another comment “Thanks to Caroline for editing this video.”
Dan didn’t edit this video.
@@doctorcorgi3134 thank you for the correction, and thank you for not being a jerk about it. I corrected myself.
@@juicy_bsYT yep, i corrected myself.
@@estrobart6785 ok no worries, not trying to be rude or anything but I don’t think Caroline is a ‘he’
Nice to hear you say there *should* be quiet time, but I can't think of a single hospital experience where I wasn't woken up every hour. When my son was born I had the Do Not Disturb sign up on the door and the nutritionist woke me up to ask me what I wanted for lunch (!)
I'd really love to get a thorough breakdown of why you get dark circles under your eyes when you don't get enough sleep.
I believe it’s actually just from rubbing your eyes when you’re tired. The skin around your eyes is really thin and your eyes get dry when you’re tired so you rub them more so, especially if you haven’t been getting enough sleep for multiple nights, it can cause some bruising basically which you can see through the under eye skin because it is so thin.
@@crabbii4365 that, and lack of sleep contributes to paler skin under the eyes which cause blood vessels to appear more prominently
@@heatherrose9709 Also, genetics. From early childhood on I always had those circles.
My son gets dark circles when his iron is low. Yes, this was confirmed by his pediatrician.
Yessssss!!!
4:49 mikes editor laughing at his disappointment
She had a scleral contact. The small item is a suction cup. But you don't remove the contact in the center of the eye You remove it at 2 or 5 oclock to avoid that situation and avoid warping the contact lens. Yes, I wear scleral contacts.
I learned about the history of medicine in England in school and the idea of transferring illness to a vegetable was literally from the renaissance period (c1500-1700) when they believed that if you rubbed a wart with an onion the wart would transfer to the onion. My class couldn't believe that this was a widely held belief, but I guess it was actually thing since people are still doing something similar today. 😭😫
Modern medicine is nothing more than a business to sell pharmaceutical drugs and injections. They very rarely cure anything that doesn't require antibiotics.
There will always be a subset of the population that will see any sort of random phenomenon and come up with their own explanation just to fill in the gaps and convince themselves that it is the unequivocal truth. That's just what happens when intelligence exists on a bell curve.
And my old folks swore that cubing a potato, stringing the cubes together and putting it around your neck like a necklace would reduce fever.
Some things are absolutely crazy. Some things do work though. Don't know the rhyme, reason or science behind it.
Drops of peppermint oil in so much water. Dipping cloths in it and putting them on your pressure points like your forehead and neck helps reduce fevers. It sounds odd and I don't know the science behind it but it works. My mom did it for my brother when he was a baby before because medicine wasn't breaking it. Like I said, not sure how it works but it has. Something my family has done for many years.
@@Private-yg9tt placebo effect might play big role here
My Husbands skin around his eyes is extremly dark. always has been. People keep asking him if he's had enough sleep on a daily basis. My mum even asked me if he was taking drugs. But nope. He just suffers from a lot of skin conditions and has very thin and sensitive skin. Especially around his eyes. Dr Mike is always right, dark circles around the eyes can have many reasons.
My mom and I have both used the blue masaugger and it slightly pinched the skin but for the most part it feels really nice and helps with the sore muscles! (:
I was in the hospital for 4 days after my stroke... I didn't get more than 2 hours of sleep a night because if an alarm wasn't going off, a nurse was waking me up to bother me about something that could've waited. 🙃
I hate when they wake you up to give you a shot to help you sleep
Oh man, those middle of the night alarms in the hospital, like 10 people push their call buttons at once plus IV machines and whatever else beeps non-stop and like 1 night nurse slowly not actually getting anything done. If I wasn't dosed up on all the good stuff like percs and more (car accident) I never would have slept a wink.
If your a diabetic they take blood EVERY four hours!! 😩
@@Fauxknight how many percs did you get? What other narcotics?
@@caelum2185 I don't remember the quantity or dosage, just getting some every like 6ish hours. They let me sleep pretty good, but made me sweaty and itchy. Also had gapapentin, high dosages of ibuprofen and who knows what else unless I pull out the line item charges. The physical rehab place was oxy instead of percs as well as lidocaine patches.
I love how his passive aggressiveness is slowly changing into real aggressiveness 😂 here for it!
When the world keeps getting more and more insane around you, the rational response is to flip your fricking wig.
What I love about doctor mike is that…he takes time to understand peoples opinions even if it’s good or bad. He’s truly a gentlemen and one of my biggest inspirations ♥️
I love you Doctor Mike. You're easily the best channel on RUclips. Your Mom would be very proud of you 👍
As a nephew of a nurse, I react exactly like Mike.
As a person with common f€%king sense, I also react like Mike.
Ignorant people sharing fake facts pisses me off😂
12:17 ‘Your lungs are the lower part of your face’
Dr mike- ‘NO YOUR LUNGS ARE HERE IN YOUR CHEST CAVITY’
‘and your stomach is the upper cheek’
Dr mike- ‘NO YOUR STOMACH IS ALSO IN YOUR ABDOMIN!, it has nothing to do with your cheek’
‘And your temple area *creepily points to temple area* it’s connected directly to your liver’
Dr mike- ‘NO. ITS. NOT’
Honestly respect for this man correcting all the misinformation in this one video
I’m just concerned on how she didn’t know where her stomach, lungs and liver were-
Loved this video. I’m a registered dietitian and have heard so many of these food myths that are absolutely ridiculous
Absolutely loved your rant about supplements but then legitimately laughed out loud about you saying, if you prescribed a medication for reflux and it never helping them you'd question it. I laughed because reflux meds have NEVER worked for me and last year I got a 23andMe gemetic test done and it literally told me I'm genetically a slow absorber to many meds, including top meds for reflux and Plavix which is a blood thinning agent! I guess it's a good thing I have not one but TWO IVC FILTERS!!! Incidental finding along with an extra piece of spleen.
4:37, that's my friend Prescott!!! It's awesome every time we find a RUclips or Tik Tok clip of it!!!!! I think it's been 5-8 years and we're still finding them.
For the questions that always come after:
yes, he still has the helmet for sentimental value; no, he did not suffer long-term damage from the fall; yes, he does wear a helmet EVERY SINGLE competition, but not always for basic road, yes always for ramps, bowls, tricks etc..; yes he still skates religiously today.
Other videos you can find of him are fun skate and hand slide videos, pretty roads and steep hills type; so, sorry, but no there aren't a bunch of Steve-o style videos of trying to hurt himself 😆
Really cool dude and is the first to tell people not to be an idiot, and wear your helmet so you can keep skating longer.
That's really cool! Seems like an awesome guy. Glad to hear how cautious he is.
I can confirm- the neck massager is garbage. It’s super hard to get it to roll on your neck and does pinch the skin @doctormike 8:22
Also - even though it triggers you Dr. Mike, I appreciate that you combat misinformation over and over - especially with the growing use of tik tok where there is just *so much nonsense* I wish there was a better way to regulate tick tok when it comes to medical advice.
💀
That’s disappointing. I have chronic neck pain and was hoping this could help:(
FROM AN OPHTHALMOLOGY OPERATING ROOM NURSE-That blue thing that your saw go on the eye and pull on the eye is a rubber stopper we use to remove corneal shields after having ocular plastic surgeries. The shields go in the eyes to protect the cornea while the lids are operated on. That was so stupid! They could have caused an eye injury or dislocated the eyeball out of orbit!
Him screaming “80% of people have parasites” took me off guard and I laughed so hard 😂
Me too lol
If the tiktoker meant spouses and children she may have a point.
@@briansullivan5908 no
@@daisiesonme1 😁
@@briansullivan5908 hah! 💀 😂
Hearing that lady talk about how all sorts of organs are in your head made me Furious😂
What I appreciate about Dr. Mike that he digs everything out and he dares to say spade a spade.
So honest & highly reliable.
1:15 No one will understand how excited I got seeing Daniel Thrasher in this video. He is one of my favorite RUclipsrs and so is Doctor Mike. I am on cloud nine right now.
Sammme
I've got surprised
Dr. Mike is always so happy and energetic starting a video, and then he loses all his brain cells watching the tiktok videos
That neck product is good I am a proffetional gymnast and we usually use this during rehab
Sam laugh in background and Mike getting pissed on stupid stuff is highlight of my day🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how he gets so stressed over all of this.
I think he gets so stressed because if people actually beleive all of these things they can get seriously hurt or lose a lot of money on bs 'detox' clenses
I think you should take a blood pressure reading before and after because Dr Mike gets so wound up 😂
lol attach him to one of those heart monitors and we can see the angry spikes
12:45 stating that there is no connection is suspect. The brain and the body are a connected circuit. If something doesn't work right in one place it is going to impact the whole system. I can go much deeper here, but it gets kind of abstract so I will refrain unless anyone is interested in hearing my rant about how different brain wirings, organizations, and neurologics can have more visible impact on different sections of the body than others while still impacting the whole. (ex. something impacting your face more visibly or your chest, or hips, or legs, etc. or skin vs. bone vs. muscle vs. nerves, etc. while still impacting the whole body)
I grew up in texas with doctors that never took me seriously and would completely ignore any issues I had because I was young. Now my health issues have gotten worse and at age 18 I need to walk around with a cane among other issues. Because of all I went through I still have a lot of distrust towards doctors and a lot of medical anxiety worrying whether I'll be taken seriously or not, even now that I live in California with much better doctors. It means a lot to me to watch your videos and see how you think of patients on a more individual level and how you genuinely care about the suffering they're going through. I wish I had a doctor like you when I was growing up.
Similar situation here. I have zero trust in doctors now. I trust myself only and treat my medical appointments with skepticism and like a business manager trying to get things done.
10:36 That captured my reaction perfectly. It sums up all my feelings perfectly into one meme
I don't know why....but it's so satisfying watching Dr. Mike get angry at medical misinformation 🤣🤣🤣
Rather late to the video, but that sort of roller (and similar) is great for use in the days after bad tonic-clonic seizures. Helps with muscle pain immensely.
2:52 what's a "probiotic" yogurt supposed to do after you just ingested garlic as a "natural antibiotic" except taste horrendous?
8:30 The bagel-shaped edema was actually a body modification fad in the early 2000s. It's done be injecting saline under the person's skin. The effect only lasts about 12 hours.
Just commented this. Was popular in fetish/extreme fashion around 2010, particularly in Japan if I remember correctly.
11:12 Do you think she would believe someone if they told her that potatoes oxidize when exposed to air causing them to turn that color? I knew that as a child.
She should if she’s ever eaten a fruit or vegetable. Apples turn brown the second they are exposed to air
the potatoes she left to compare are litteraly a bit black
I love Dr Mike's rants about pretty much everything