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Wow, dude. Not even a mention of hysterectomies When I was a child, I didn't know any intact women. I will never trust Hippocratic Oath breakers/ butchers.
omg Simon! lol watch this ad & take note of your expression & especially the look in your eyes as you finish up & reach to start the video! I'd hate to see anyone look at me like that! I could smell the brimstone right through the phone! yes I can imagine things going up in flames like a look from the baby in the Incredibles does!
In orientation in the first week of medical school the dean told us that, “Half of what we will teach you over the next four years is wrong. We just don’t know which half.” That was in 1996. Indeed, much of what I did in my first few years of practice would today be considered malpractice although at the time was the standard of care.
@@oliviagreen7423 yep. Every year medicine is better. What would have taken us 10 years 30 years ago we can now use the advances in biotechnology to test safety in a similar items in a year. For example previously we would have had to go through many animal studies to test a vaccine for any immediately dangerous effects to the cells. Now Now can directly culture human cells of various types such as hear, lung, and others and see if any of the ingredients of the vaccine will harm human cells. If they don't we can then move right into later parts of studies. I wish the news would talk about medical advances more. No wonder everyone thinks that this vaccine was rushed the media portrays scientists like we haven't learned anything in 40 years. It's not 1980 anymore we don't need 5-10 years for a simple mrna vaccine we need about a year.
Wow! Your comment makes me think you're a better doctor than 99% of the doctors on Earth. I've got to tell you a few stories! I was born with a diaphragm hernia that somehow, miraculously wasn't severe enough to make me sick until I was about 8 months old, when I had to have emergency surgery. This was in 1983, before they used mesh in hernias. They just sewed it closed leaving a sunken place on one side of my body with very little muscle, nerve damage affecting like the whole top left side of my body, and a giant scar that looks like a Frankenstein scar, you can see the stitches, on my stomach. Since the mesh was invented, I've seen several people I know have it used to repair their hernias, and all had to have it removed later and had severe complications. There was even someone who's baby had the same birth defect as me, who had surgery on the baby while the baby was in the womb, and the baby had to have another surgery after she was born! So their invention was supposed to make people like me not have the complications from the traditional surgery, but it ended up being worse. I am extremely lucky that I didn't die from this hernia because most babies born with it at that time did die and that when they fixed it they did it the old way. Then when I was 17 I had dental surgery and the dentist used a new kind of drill - the kind that can suddenly overheat and burn patient's faces. My face got burned, I may have been one of the first people it happened to in the USA, and the same dental drill is still being used to this day, and everyone from little kids to supermodels have the same scar on their lips or face as I do because of it. This is why many people don't trust doctors or the government and I hate to say this but have to because it's so relevant, why many people are afraid to take a recently created new medication that the government assures them is safe.
Umm, I clicked on you to find out who you were and I see videos of Humboldt. Really? That's where I live. Are you a doctor HERE? If you are I seem to have missed out ob being seen by a competent doctor, and got stuck with Fran Day and Connie Basch. Seriously I went to both of those doctors, one charged me for an hour of telling me off and the other tried to prescribe Fentanyl to me for like literally no reason.
My tonsils were constantly infected. I missed so much school because of throat issues. My doctor begged my parents to let him take them out and they wouldn't. Finally when I was 17 and had my 30 gazillionth infected throat, I said "I'm getting them out and you're not going to stop me." They didn't. It worked, the throat issues became a thing of the past. As you said, sometimes it is necessary and sometimes it isn't. I was an is.
Mine went in 1987 after constant tonsil infections. My adenoids were also removed. Back then tonsillectomies were still pretty common though. I was pretty ill as a kid so I wonder if they'd still do it these days.
i had mine out a few months ago, along w my sister. i feel much better w/o them and glad i don’t have to deal w a swollen neck and infected tonsils lol it was torture as a kid
I'm genuinely surprised that with all the talk of chronic constipation you did not once mention that it was a serious and common problem in the days before strict food production regulation. Specifically, shady millers and/or bakers would cut wheat flour with cheaper ingredients like chalk and cement in order to increase profit margins.
@@jdsguam Search youtube for "The Poisonous Horrors of The Victorian Kitchen | Hidden Killers | Absolute History" because they go into detail about both bread and milk were dangerously adulterated in the days before food safety regulations.
I had emergency colon surgery and the surgeon found out that most of my colon was shredding due to severe diverticulitis. He told my husband (while I was in recovery) that if I had waited a couple more weeks to come in for pain, I would have died. He left the last 10 inches (the rectum is 10 inches long y’all! I didn’t know that before then!) and attached the small intestine to it. Mostly, I crap more times per day than normal, and it’s usually “not solid.” Not a lot of storage space… The end of the small intestine can also widen to take on some characteristics of the large intestine. I have to worry about vitamin K deficiency and dehydration, but that’s about it. I have a ginormous scar from belly button to pubic bone, but I’m alive, so I’ll take it!
That's kinda of amazing! The fact that they can shorten it so much and it more or less functions about the same is crazy. It's cool how the body adapts.
Just an FYI, to let everyone know - When people have their colon removed for legitimate medical reasons today, they often don't need to have a permanent ostomy. (poop bag that is attached to the abdomen.) It surprises me how many people still don't know that. For most people, unless they had Chron's Disease, they get what's called a J pouch. It's the standard of care in every developed country. It's a procedure where they fold the cutoff end of the small bowel into a J shaped pouch and sew it down into the anus, so that the person can still poop normally out of their butt. They have to poop several times a day, lose the ability to pass gas without having to sit on the toilet to do it, and the consistency is softer, but other than that, you have a totally normal life. I wish this would've been included in the bonus facts. It would be nice to be able to talk openly about the fact that you had this procedure, without people always automatically assuming that you're carrying around a poop bag, taped to you. Even some nurses that I've met before, including one who even took care of me during the time that I was having the operations didn't even know about this. That's ridiculous and needs to change.
As someone with Crohn's disease that tried years of different difficult treatments, only to have to make the decision of having my colon removed and an ostomy made, this was FASCINATING! My life is so much better without my diseased colon, but a healthy functioning colon is still the dream.
Near-total colectomies are still performed today, but for actual medically necessary reasons. For example, my wife's dad's family suffers from a genetic mutation that leads to 100% colon cancer rates, and nearly everyone on that side of the family, including my wife, have had their colons removed in order to try to prevent the onset of the colon cancer that is guaranteed to develop. One thing about the colon, though, is that it's where most of the water your body needs is actually absorbed, which leads to rapid dehydration in people who've had colectomies and a need to always have a bottle of water handy to stay hydrated. Still, I had no idea of the dark and dubious history behind the procedure. I'm just happy that it exists to save my wife's life. Thanks for the history lesson, Simon & crew!
@@adambartlett114 First, I don't know who you are, and you don't know my family or their medical histories, so please don't presume to give instructions on how we look out for the welfare of our children or second-guess the procedures that my wife, her siblings, and the rest of her family have had. What would possibly give you the idea that we take such decisions as lightly as you seem to think we do? As I said, I don't know what your medical and surgical background is, but we have consulted with numerous gastroenterologists, oncologists, and surgeons over the past 20+ years, and the consensus among them has been unanimous-for persons in my wife's position with the confirmed genetic mutation that leads to familial adenomatous polyposis where death from the colon cancer typically occurs in the individual's 50s based on the type of mutation her family has, removal of the colon gives the patient the best chance of surviving the condition into their 70s. Yes, regular colonoscopies and endoscopies are still required to monitor what's left of the colon, the rectum, and the small intestine and stomach, but it's a small price to pay, particularly when the research on the disease indicates that fully 90% of cases manifest primarily with increasing numbers of polyps in the colon, with lesser percentages manifesting in other parts of the gastrointestinal system. According to all of the specialists that we've consulted with over the past two decades, failure to remove the colon and simply continue to rely on traditional colonoscopy screenings would eventually result in an increasingly untenable situation, as the number and size of the polyps begins to increase exponentially after age 40, eventually reaching the point where colonoscopies and removal of the polyps will not be enough to keep up with their spread and their increasingly cancerous nature. All of the specialists recommended my wife have her colon removed around her 40th birthday, particularly as the most recently removed and tested polyps had all come back as precancerous and there was a very real fear that a colonoscopy within the next three years would reveal polyps that were fully cancerous. In no way did we make a "hasty decision," nor did I give you any indication in my previous comment that any decisions that we have made or will make in the future are hasty, and I, quite frankly, resent the implication. I've always assumed that all of us who watch these videos and leave comments are, to take a quote from Simon, "big brains." Finally, in response to Mr. Bartlett's admonishment to "everybody else who reads this thread, please be careful and talk to reputable specialist doctors" and that "radical choices are becoming less and less reasonable in this environment," yes, please talk to your doctors and specialists. But, if they end up recommending a "radical choice," such as colon removal as in my wife's case, please take it seriously and do not immediately discount it just because it makes you uncomfortable. The success rate of these surgeries is amazingly high in today's world, and if the specialists are recommending it, it's because that's the best option available to you, in their expert opinion. Follow the science, and take care of yourselves.
@@randallyoung8297 can not imagine the ego trip it would take to try and lecture you on your wives medical choices. I am so very happy that your wife and her family have had amazing doctors and specialists who have been on top of testing and treatments needed. Ridiculous that you had to explain why that surgery decision was made by your wife and her doctors more cause some rando felt they knew more about her medical history and status then you.
@@katiearcher4475 lady. It's youtube. The comment sections are always full of wackos, narcissists, pseudo-intellectuals, mentally ill, and just plain a holes.
@@randallyoung8297 your a amazing husband for standing by her side. Also holy cow your wife is strong. I just googled the disease and it sounds tough. It doesn't look like much research goes into it. I hope they get more Grant's and have alot more discoveries and breakthroughs in your wife's and kid's lifetime.
I grew up in Romania in the 70s and 80s, and as a child I had a lot of colds with throat infections- so my doctor wanted to remove my tonsils. Lucky for me, my mother was a pediatrician and she disagreed with his diagnosis so she ended up leaving my tonsils untouched by the all-too-willing surgeon! I’m grateful! Because upon coming to the US, and visiting an ear nose and throat doctor, he told us removing the tonsils most likely will allow the infection to go straight to the lungs or upper respiratory tract. Also the problem was not with my tonsils; it was simply not receiving the correct medication! As a child I was always given antibiotics yet the issue was a fungal infection! So once I was given the right medication, those pesky throat infections never returned!
Oh please, for your own sanity, don't look up early remedies for psychological disorders like "Theological Hysteria"... If you thought this was bad, those kinds of :questionable treatments" will scar your poor soul for life. ;o)
Alas, he failed and we are now forever awash with hordes of the butt hurt. Lately it seems like butts are more sensitive then ever before, and being hurt at a tremendous rate.
I have seen Simon crack away though from the straight face. In fact, he did it not to long ago, I just need to find the video and time stamp, because it was hilarious.
I'm only 56 and back when I was an early teenager it was pretty much a rite-of-passage to have your tonsils removed. Fortunately for me, my father was a physicist and had a very poor regard for the medical profession "it's not proper science" and would not allow any medical intervention for anyone in our family unless it was critical.
I remember seeing so many "kid gets pain in throat, gets tonsillectomy, gets ice cream" stories in comics and story books as a kid that I was sure it would happen to me at some point. Clearly, I just caught the remnant of writers who grew up with that as a regular practice for children.
Honestly with two nurses for parents I rarely got to do all the fun stuff at the hospital. My parents even stitched up one of our cats once. So while I feel cheated I know I'm also pretty damn blessed. So I don't complain.
My 2 neighbour kid got it, it is insane, i just gurgle and drink lemon juice whenever i got a sore throat, i remember when my throat got so red and inflamed, i just stop eating fried stuff and it heal by itself after a few days.
I'm in my early 20s, and I actually got a tonsillectomy as in grade school - which would have been in the late '00s. Wierd thinking that it was already phasing out by then.
There was a horrid theory that you HAD to have a bowel movement at least twice a day, EVERY day, or you weren't considered healthy. While growing up in the 40s and 50s my father was subjected to enemas twice a day to help keep him "regular". Until the day he died, he had to deal with IBS, chronic diarrhea, constipation, and I think it contributed to him developing severe diabetes--not to mention the psychological scars he had to carry around from being held down and forced to have his mother perform an intrusive act upon him.
I usually have a bowel movement once or twice a day without issue, but that does seem a little excessive for something that isn't necessarily even beneficial. I have had relatives who have died from severe constipation but the data on what the ideal bowel movement frequency is, is still somewhat limited so we don't know if there is a benefit to having them more frequently than roughly once every other day or so. Regardless your father's experience definitely sounds pretty horrible.
Damn. That really sounds horrible, but I got similar stories from my mom. But I'm really happy that my parents got over those toilet training issues when they had me and did not enforce their messed up upbringing on me in that regard. My mom seems to have taken laxatives nearly all her adult life, but as long as I was okay, she didn't interfere with my pooping schedule ;) To be fair, I have my own toilet issues. I just don't like to take a dump anywhere else than in the safety of my home, so when travelling it will take me a few days to adapt an find an apropriate sense of safety. So when we went on a holiday or even camping... I could be quite happy not shitting for 3-4 days. The longest so far was a bit over a week, but I also didn't eat and my body vented all intestinal contents before because I had a pancreatitis about 8 years ago...
@@EyMannMachHin Some people get to choose to shit in the safety of their home. But think about the millions upon millions who never had the opportunity to have a safe home. And I’ll leave you with this- the water that fills toilets is drinking water. You only feel safe to poop into the drinking water inside your own house? Strange things people do.
@@fastinradfordable I probably wouldn't if I had grown up anywhere else. I don't even know where I got that notion and it only takes a bit of time for my to adjust my subconscious to a stange environment. But one thing holds it can take me 2-7 days to adjust to a new environment. Like having to use squat toilets on a greek camping ground.
@@fastinradfordable What a bizarre question, where do you shit and into what? I also have traveller's constipation for day or two, its subconscious and quite common.
@@martaleszkiewicz5115 Since I went vegan I have never been constipated, allegorical I know. That meat heavy diets lead to constipation however is not allegorical
@@martaleszkiewicz5115Um, fibre actually does the opposite. It prevents your faeces from getting compacted i.e. constipated. Have you never seen a Metamucil commercial in your life? Or even one of the hundreds of food commercials endorsing their product as being high in fibre and thus helping you "stay regular" (as in having a regular bowel movement)?
I had my tonsils yanked when I was 4 years old. Chronic strep throats and ear aches plus high fevers were my frequent lot. God it was awful. Felt like a knife was being turned in my ears. I had penicillin pills and shots on a regular basis. Finally one night I was wrapped in a yellow blanket and rushed to the on call pediatrician when my fever went way above 104 and wasn't coming down. That was when they decided to yank my tonsils. Doctor was worried that I might lose my hearing.
Be happy that you had them out at 4. I had mine out at 50, my 50th birthday. It took me down for 6 weeks. It was like a burn and a paper cut together and doused with a never-ending supply of rubbing alcohol, all in my throat. Sorry that you were just kids and the fevers were the worst, but 3 or 4 days of ice cream put a silver lining on the dark cloud of your memories and you were right as rain afterwards.
The past was wild, your typical A to B thought process was like: "Most injury is due to poor decision making so we should remove the brain the live longer!", or "Can't break your bones if we take them all out".
All I could think of was the line from Mel Brooks's movie Dracula Dead and Loving it, when threatened with an enema from the psychiatric staff at the asylum Renfield screams, "no! Not ANOTHER enema!" To which Dr. Seward responds with, "Yes another, and another! Until you come to your senses!"
I had my tonsils removed in the early sixties. I later found the hospital bill that my parents received. Sixty five dollars for the procedure and an overnight stay. Many years later I was getting my yearly checkup and my doctor casually mentioned that my tonsils looked fine??? Yup. They grew back!
@@loafywolfy Apparently, not all of the tissue was excised. I don’t know how or why the remaining bits began to expand, but they did. And just like before, they started getting inflamed and painful.
I saw the title and thought it referred to the gluteus muscle, the one we sit on and wondered: ‘how did they sit down after?’ Needless to say, the true topic of the episode is SO much worse!😯
To be fair, if you literally had your gluteus (maximus or all three or whatever) removed, sitting wouldn't be the hard part, it'd be standing that you'd find nearly impossible or at least have to really adapt XD I'm a pedantic nerd who loves taking excuses to fact-dump, I'm sorry
A set of my grandmother's twins died of "Toxic diarrhea" in the early 1900s. Being as a family a funeral home workers some joked about "What a sh*tty way to die," but then my father died at Johns Hopkins of a bowel obstruction, so he ended up dying "full of sh*t." It's all about the story that you leave behind that matters, so don't be the butt of the jokes Have a great day everyone!!!
@@jruler93 Very true. It was also standard to have children at a younger age which means even though the average lifespan meant dying sooner, people were still being produced.
Tonsilectomies started to go out of fashion just as I reached the age where I would have had one. My older brother had his tonsils taken out; my younger brother and I kept our tonsils. I haven’t noticed it making a big difference in the health of any of us. But I’ve got to think that taking out organs just because you can is a bad medical policy. Of course, sometimes something has to come out. But leaving your organs where you found them should be the default plan.
My dad told me he had to submit to weekly enemas as a child. And he had a tonsillectomy. I didn’t know you could live without your large colon. Though he had cataract surgery in both eyes that was painless and restored his vision. I guess we have evolved a little.
There are almost as many nerves in the bowel as there are in the human brain. There is a correlation between IBS and migraine. Dude wasn’t far off in his ideas about the brain and the GI system.
There does indeed seem to be some sort of link, but removing the entire colon isn't how you "cure" mental illness, just like you don't "cure" any mental illnesses by performing a lobotomy.
@@PanthereaLeonis Well yeah certainly, I know I wasn't and I'm fairly sure OP wasn't making these observations in defense of the method applied, just saying the reasoning involved wasn't entirely bonkers lol
@@toomanyopinions8353 Can you be more specific? I'm decently literate in medical topics and moderately pedantic but I didn't notice anything questionable. (Although I admit it was late when I watched this and I'm not always the most observant person)
I had to have a large part of my intestines removed (for a VERY good reason!), and I was told how very very dangerous this surgery still was as no matter how "cleaned out" you were still at high risk of infection. Also high in all sorts of horrors....I was LUCKY, and just had a "normal" recovery by 2 weeks in the hospital and misery for weeks at home and PT to get my strength back... and I can't imagine anyone just "Oh let's do this a lot as you are constipated!"
I'm so glad you mentioned that this attitude still continues to this day. I kept thinking that. I got this ad all the time on RUclips that starts with "Did you know at any given time you are full of TOXIC POOP?" Fad "cleanses" meant to give you diarrhea for weeks really seem like they are coming from these roots.
I was at work in 2012 when I suddenly had so much pain in my back that I couldn't move. Had to have another manager close up the restaurant. The next day, I had to go to instacare, and they diagnosed it as constipation. Well, none of what they gave me helped. When I finally got a decent scan done, they found a spinal injury that still bothers me today. Now I'm imagining getting that injury 100 years earlier and having my colon removed...
Bowel health was very important to my grandmother. She would ask everyone at the breakfast table if they had already had a bowel movement that day. If not, she would check on that person at lunchtime. God forbid you make it all the way until to the dinner table without a bowel movement. She didn’t confine her inquiries to just family- if you ate with us, you were fair game for the healthy bowel questionnaire. Some people we warned, others we just threw into the fire. lol
Only a few years ago I had part of my colon removed in a Hartmanns procedure (colostomy bag) The history of this life saving surgery is quite interesting a would be worthy of a video. After reversal, having a good fart again was one of the best things I've ever experienced👍
Well done Simon, you condensed 400 odd years of dumb-schitt surgical interventions that continued on through to 1978. I had worked in an operating theatre for a period of some 5 & a half years, That was when and where both tonsils and adenoids removal was recommended for younger persons... that had been diagnosed considered to be necessary to eliminate their T' and As by that 1970s era of elderly surgeons... that had learned and trained their specialist skills when that sort of quackery was still an accepted surgical procedure. Thankfully the medical diagnostics and surgical procedures had moved rapidly forward from that era. That was around the same era (the 1970s) that cryogenic surgery began to become a new surgical phenomenon.
I wonder if this "chronic constipation" was kind of a first world problem, something that afflicted wealthy or middle class people of the industrial age with a sedentary lifestyle because their diets were a lot of meats and things that are expensive, refined white flour, compared to a peasant diet that includes a lot of whole grains and greens because they grow it themself and it's 'poor people food'. Peasant food and daily physical labor would probably keep them regular. But instead of just changing their diet and exercising more, the rich people remove their whole colon.
Please don't, this is hurtful. Chronic constipation is a very real issue for some people and it causes a great deal of suffering and interference with daily life. It can be caused by various known ailments or sometimes the cause is never found so they just slap the IBS label on it. To suggest people who've struggled their whole life with this awful condition are just lazy and not eating right is really insulting. Only thing I didn't like about this video was that it seemed to imply that just because it was very very wrong of people to attribute everything to chronic constipation, and to treat that by removing the colon, that means chronic constipation isn't an actual medical issue. It is.
@@dolomedestenebrosus9564 It depends on what's causing it. A _lot_ of constipation can be cured with hydration, diet, and exercise. But not all. If your bowel is becoming paralyzed for instance. Or certain medications can cause issues. But even in those cases, the situation generally receives a net improvement from hydration, diet, and exercise. But I don't think OP said or even implied anything hurtful here. Perhaps you are projecting conversations from the past onto OP.
@@someperson7 possibly, I may have misunderstood what op was saying. But the video itself talked about chronic constipation as if it was a made-up problem, at least it really came off that way to me, and so did the comment. I and others with constipation-dominant ibs or other ailments that cause chronic constipation have often been struggling with it a long time, and the common advice "eat more fiber, drink more water" simply is not the answer for us or we'd not still be suffering - trust me, that's the first suggestion I hear, over and over again, when seeking help. It's a little insulting, like I have never even tried or heard of the most basic, ubiquitous constipation treatment ever when this issue has plagued me my whole life. Sorry if I'm still misinterpreting what is being implied but it's really frustrating.
There were 2 things those surgeons got right: 1. We do sometimes remove the colon - IF there's a good medical reason for doing so. Colectomy, as it is termed, is curative for ulcerative colitis. A partial colectomy is also sometimes done due to issues such as a congenital lack of nerves leading to part of the colon (which means that part of the colon doesn't work) and death of the colon due to issues such as a torsion (twisting) or strangulated hernia. 2. There IS a connection between mental illness and the colon - but not necessarily in the way they thought. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in some mental illnesses, including depression and anxiety. We now know that there are more serotonin receptors in your GI tract than in your brain, and that sometimes changes to serotonin levels can affect the GI tract. For example, there's a link between irritable bowel syndrome and some mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety disorders. They tend to occur together. This doesn't necessarily mean that one causes the other, BUT it can indicate a common source.
My mom had an illeostomy and that was no picnic. That bag had to be changed and cleaned and it stunk until mom got the hang of it. Also those colostomy bags back then didn't have a secure lock. You used a hair barret. A long silver one. And they didn't always stay shut either. And my mom cared about her appearance. Was she depressed? Yes.
Maybe if the Drs hadn’t been so busy getting their patients to quaff down laudanum, smoke opium, and many other methods to get opiates inside them, they wouldn’t have had the constipation that lead them to believe that lower bowel immotility was such a problem? But then even today Drs will sometimes prescribe one medicine to combat the problem, and another to combat the side effects of the first so we haven’t moved on that much
Well, I suppose Cotton’s loss of 45% of his surgical patients could be counted as successful cure of mental illness as the dead do not suffer from mental illness. /s 😖 Loved the ending you gave this one, btw.
Had to have my tonsils removed at 2. I kept constant throat and ear infections with fevers consistently going to 104 F. Throat would swell to the point of me turning blue, surgery saved my life.
@@potatoes4843 Colon Power - sounds like me, the last time I ate chili beans 😁. You wouldn't have wanted to be downwind without a clothes pin for your nose....
I used to have terrible ear aches with horrendous nightmares and fevers up until I had my tonsils. Once they were removed at 14 years old. I never sustained ear aches to that degree again.
Did you know that they thought the tissue surrounding organs was just “packaging?” I think now we refer to them as connective tissues. Some of which are thought to be useful for proprioception.
@@kevinconrad6156 Not in the slightest! Fascia is like 40% nerve fibers in many parts of it e.g. lumbar aponeurosis etc., and the structural integrity/force-transmission roles it serves as part of the neuromusculoskeletal system are well-documentedly vital and are considered in everything from manual therapies to yoga to orthopedic surgery. What do you think your IT band is made out of? Pfft "packaging", you trippin' :P Even the most stubbornly behind-the-times allopathic docs are decently hip to this by now, or we're getting close to that
Yep, except for the guy who removed his own teeth because he thought he was going insane... I mean, he wasn't wrong... Even though he was completely wrong...
@@sjhart14 says who? I've performed several minor surgeries on myself, with no training. I'm sure a practiced surgeon would have little difficulty performing more invasive surgery on themselves, so long as his/her vision isn't obstructed.
@@sjhart14 Well, there was an Arctic expedition where the team doctor got sick, and operated on himself. I think, but I’m not positive, that it was an appendectomy.
It is surprising the the YT algorithm didn't tag this particular video with the Internet classic ad that informs viewers that their colons are full of "5 to 20 pounds of toxic poop". . .
When I was a US Army medic, I found that many gastro intestinal problems during sick call would clear up with some Metamucil, a soluble fiber that helps regulate gut bacteria
My husband was in the military until recently and they give them all laxative gum. I think it's because they add iron to everything they eat, which can cause constipation
It's funny that we used to call the tonsils, spleen, and appendix vestigial but we have since discovered, within the last 30 yrs, that they all actually play vital roles in the immune system. We also now know that gut health is important to mental health due to the vagal nervous system which is found in both the gut and the brain (constipation no, healthy bacteria yes).
I have Crohn’s disease and I had my right colon removed a few years ago. It was the most painful surgery I have had, including childbirth a c-section and removal of a Fallopian tube. I can’t imagine what it was like back then!
AND while they've decreased in popularity to a degree since their "new hey-day" in the 80's... There are still places advocating "colonics" which are similar to enemas on steroids... "Because food you ate years ago is still in there somewhere... rotting away inside you." Quackery is still strong and separating fools from their money... and occasionally from the help they actually NEED... ;o)
For a second I was worried I had my tonsils out for a stupid reason, then I remembered I had them out because I was freaking Typhoid Mary-ing my second grade class with strep lol and it's not great to have strep just chilling in a kid for a month plus. And it was in like 2004
I had my tonsils out at age 6 because I had strep throat 13 times in one year and every time I got it I would run 105 or 106 degree fever! It’s was terrible. Since Ive had them out, I’ve only had strep 3 times. (In twenty + years)
I wish my parents would have listened to my doctor as a child bc I’m still constantly sick from sinus infections and strep/sore throat. Now in my 30’s it is a hard to recover from procedure according to every doctor I’ve tried to get to do these things now. 🤦🏼♀️ and now I’m allergic to most antibiotics and steroids (from total anaphylactic response to hives and vomiting depending on what it is.) fun times 😒 parents if they say they need sinus tissue or tonsils out do it for the love..
"This revolution in surgery came with it's fair share of quackery". Especially when the suergons of that Era began preforming highly controversial Duckectomys.
I still laugh seeing Simon say these rediculous sentences without laughing. I also want to know when Sam will put the gag reel on an episode of brain blaze!
Rip Phil Hartman. She killed both SNL and the Simpsons with a single pull of the trigger. Crazy, she should have had her butt removed or maybe her teeth idk. Colon Blow, from the makers of Oops I Crapped My Pants brand adult diapers
I am a colon cancer survivor and I had to have my whole large intestine removed and it sucks. I can say it’s a struggle on a daily basis not having one.
I was 4 years old, it was 1996 in the US. My parents decided to get my tonsils removed.They weren't causing any chronic infections, but they were trying to kill me. According to the doctor & surgeon, I had the most severe case of "kissing tonsils" they'd seen which hadn't caused complications. They looked fine but my airway was restricted in general; My tonsils were touching (hence being called "kissing tonsils") making my airway more narrow. That itself was not great but it was even worse at night. If I slept flat on my back, my airway would reduce to the size of a straw or be cut off entirely by my tonsils. I had to sleep sitting up or on my side with pillows stacked so I couldn't roll over onto my back, all just to be able to breathe in my sleep. They told my parents that the older I got the harder the recovery would be & the thing that made them give the go ahead, despite me being so young & risks of general anesthesia being so scarey, was how my doctor told them that he was genuinely shocked I hadn't already suffocated in my sleep yet. So, bye bye tonsils!
I had tonsils removed because I often got tonsillitis, and my adenoids(sp?) removed at the same time because I as a 10 year old would snore like an old man and would experience frequent but brief nosebleeds at random. Basically both would make me sick often enough and monstrous sounding that they were surgically removed. But I found out from non western or British friends that people in other countries just keep their tonsils even if they frequently get tonsillitis. Weird part is despite both being made for trapping germs and viruses to keep you from getting sick, I've rarely gotten ill since they were removed.
When I watched this I thought how fortunate we are not to have been born in the GOOD OL DAYS🙄. We have our bad doctors but this was something nightmares are made of.
I don’t know how common it is now, but in the 1990s Tonsillectomy was still shockingly common. In fact I had mine removed in 1993-4 at the age of 4-5 (don’t exactly remember). However I do remember being told they were swelling up a lot and “closing my throat” rather regularly. It happened 3-4 times before the doctors said, “that’s it, they’re coming out.” I was promised all the ice cream I could eat! But ultimately I only got down a single spoonful. In hindsight, it was probably unnecessary and the swelling was likely due to childhood allergies and the overall “booting up” of my immune system that comes from being exposed to common pathogens for the first time. However, on the off chance that they would’ve caused me life-long problems, I’m glad they came out when they did because I hear that having them removed as an adult is incredibly hard as well as much more prolonged and painful.
We had to get my son’s out 3 years ago when he was 6. They were huge, even when he wasn’t sick. They were so swollen he had a space about as big around as a pencil to breathe through. He started to stop breathing when he slept and that’s when we decided they needed to come out.
I'm on a hospital waitlist for getting those parts removed. So this just feels bizzare to see this show up. Hospital wait lists are years long but I'm keen to get this done.
Can I ask, why is there such a long wait list to get parts removed? I understand why transplant wait lists would be years long, but it seems like they wouldn’t need to wait for anything if they’re just removing parts you already have. Unless it’s considered an elective surgery and there’s just a general operating room backlog?
Since the large intestine absorbs water from the digested food, I would think that removing it and connecting the small intestine directly to the anus would result in very liquid stool, like permanent diarrhea . Or every fart becomes a shart. That would not be pleasant, would those people have to wear diapers for the rest of their life? Plus they would get chronically dehydrated. I mean constipation is unpleasant too but the constipated person has more ability to 'hold it in' when it's a solid, compared to a liquid.
All too true. I had to have my colon removed due to what we believed to be ulcerative colitis. I had the small intestine hooked back up with the end made into a “J pouch” unfortunately it was actually Crohns and I got an ostomy later on when. I was 20 years old walking around in fear of any fart, I literally couldn’t hold it in became the crohns caused to much pain and I wore large pads constantly. It was hell. I demanded to get my ileostony, and I’ve never regretted it. I can become dehydration very very easily, I’ve been in urgent care 3 times this summer to get fluids, being dehydrated is not just being thirsty, I get lethargic, my leg muscle ps cramp like hell, headache, very tired and hot. Not fun at all and very dangerous for the kidneys. I’m not sure what exactly would happen to a totally health person who didn’t have crohns, and removed their colon, but you would definitely never had a solid stool and definitely be subjected to a high risk of dehydration. The colon is there for a reason!
As a Crohn's disease sufferer for 30+ years, my total Colectomy and total Proctectomy has saved me and totally changed my life. When people I know ask me what my butt looks like after the surgery, I tell them to look at a Ken doll's butt!
And we can thank Kellogg and his ilk for my generation getting preventive circumcisions. Done for hygienic reasons was the thinking at the time. Babies are now spared this barbaric procedure and are all the better for it.
I can happily say I had my tonsils removed due to severe infection and not just because. I was 6 years old (52 currently) and I still remember how hard it was to swallow before, and the mint chocolate chip ice cream I had after.
As a younger millennial I remember being told that I should have my tonsils removed. With four children now, I have never been told they should have their tonsils removed. We are a weird species.
I can’t stop laughing. Imagine a crowd surrounding an unconscious soaking wet person on the banks of river and some guy runs up and yelling “give me room, I’m going to save this man!” Only to stand there bewildered at why pumping smoke into his butt didn’t save him.
Surgery should always be a last resort after everything else has failed. I did need to remove my teeth, but they were so infected I was concerned about the infection moving up into my jaw bone. However, if it's not broke, don't fix it.
One of my sons has tonsillitis,that is his tonsils get infected often. The pediatrician has told me that unless it gets in the way of breathing or swallowing they won't remove them. Considering that it's painful and he has to be checked for strep throat every time I wish they would just do the operation.
So, let’s review… If I went to a restaurant in 17th century France, they would feed me laxatives and put a bazooka-sized syringe in my back door, and tell me it’s for my own good? Man, the past really was the worst… …then again, I’ve voluntarily walked into a modern Taco Bell once or twice and FELT LIKE it gave me a radical colonectomy…
I call bologna on the tonsillectomy bit at the end. Namely the removal only if chronic infections. I grew up in the 80's and had either strep or tonsillitis at least 2 times a year. They wouldn't take them out no matter how bad it got because, they said, the tonsils are essential to your lymphatic system. Let me tell you what, gargling warm salt water was the bane of my existence. Come to find out, my tonsils should have been removed for their size alone. I have sleep apnea, which was exacerbated by my tonsils and when I had them removed I was able to stay awake while driving, talking, working basically any activity that involves staying awake!!! I still have to use my machine but went from 20 PSI to 9!!! Thank goodness we raised this concern with daughters doctor and she was able to get hers removed at the age of 4. Doing it at 32 was horrible
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Wow, dude.
Not even a mention of hysterectomies
When I was a child, I didn't know any intact women.
I will never trust Hippocratic Oath breakers/ butchers.
Hic alcoholics rejoice
The end was hilarious.
If you did let your kids answer the quiz you may get some very interesting wines
omg Simon! lol watch this ad & take note of your expression & especially the look in your eyes as you finish up & reach to start the video! I'd hate to see anyone look at me like that! I could smell the brimstone right through the phone! yes I can imagine things going up in flames like a look from the baby in the Incredibles does!
In orientation in the first week of medical school the dean told us that, “Half of what we will teach you over the next four years is wrong. We just don’t know which half.” That was in 1996. Indeed, much of what I did in my first few years of practice would today be considered malpractice although at the time was the standard of care.
It's deeply unsettling to hear this, but it's reality eh?
@@oliviagreen7423 yep. Every year medicine is better. What would have taken us 10 years 30 years ago we can now use the advances in biotechnology to test safety in a similar items in a year.
For example previously we would have had to go through many animal studies to test a vaccine for any immediately dangerous effects to the cells. Now Now can directly culture human cells of various types such as hear, lung, and others and see if any of the ingredients of the vaccine will harm human cells. If they don't we can then move right into later parts of studies. I wish the news would talk about medical advances more. No wonder everyone thinks that this vaccine was rushed the media portrays scientists like we haven't learned anything in 40 years. It's not 1980 anymore we don't need 5-10 years for a simple mrna vaccine we need about a year.
Wow! Your comment makes me think you're a better doctor than 99% of the doctors on Earth. I've got to tell you a few stories! I was born with a diaphragm hernia that somehow, miraculously wasn't severe enough to make me sick until I was about 8 months old, when I had to have emergency surgery. This was in 1983, before they used mesh in hernias. They just sewed it closed leaving a sunken place on one side of my body with very little muscle, nerve damage affecting like the whole top left side of my body, and a giant scar that looks like a Frankenstein scar, you can see the stitches, on my stomach. Since the mesh was invented, I've seen several people I know have it used to repair their hernias, and all had to have it removed later and had severe complications. There was even someone who's baby had the same birth defect as me, who had surgery on the baby while the baby was in the womb, and the baby had to have another surgery after she was born! So their invention was supposed to make people like me not have the complications from the traditional surgery, but it ended up being worse. I am extremely lucky that I didn't die from this hernia because most babies born with it at that time did die and that when they fixed it they did it the old way. Then when I was 17 I had dental surgery and the dentist used a new kind of drill - the kind that can suddenly overheat and burn patient's faces. My face got burned, I may have been one of the first people it happened to in the USA, and the same dental drill is still being used to this day, and everyone from little kids to supermodels have the same scar on their lips or face as I do because of it. This is why many people don't trust doctors or the government and I hate to say this but have to because it's so relevant, why many people are afraid to take a recently created new medication that the government assures them is safe.
Umm, I clicked on you to find out who you were and I see videos of Humboldt. Really? That's where I live. Are you a doctor HERE? If you are I seem to have missed out ob being seen by a competent doctor, and got stuck with Fran Day and Connie Basch. Seriously I went to both of those doctors, one charged me for an hour of telling me off and the other tried to prescribe Fentanyl to me for like literally no reason.
And yet, what's being fed to us put of Washington is DEMANDED to be treated as infallible holy writ. NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED!
My tonsils were constantly infected. I missed so much school because of throat issues. My doctor begged my parents to let him take them out and they wouldn't. Finally when I was 17 and had my 30 gazillionth infected throat, I said "I'm getting them out and you're not going to stop me." They didn't. It worked, the throat issues became a thing of the past. As you said, sometimes it is necessary and sometimes it isn't. I was an is.
Mine were closing over my throat and threatened my breathing so they went in the 80s.
Mine went in 1987 after constant tonsil infections. My adenoids were also removed. Back then tonsillectomies were still pretty common though. I was pretty ill as a kid so I wonder if they'd still do it these days.
@@Definatalie I still have the adenoids and there was no suggestion of taking those. I'm in England. .
My Dr always told me to NOT remove them. I always had really bad infections as a kid, I took so much antibiotics. Now with almost 30, no more issues!
i had mine out a few months ago, along w my sister. i feel much better w/o them and glad i don’t have to deal w a swollen neck and infected tonsils lol it was torture as a kid
I'm genuinely surprised that with all the talk of chronic constipation you did not once mention that it was a serious and common problem in the days before strict food production regulation. Specifically, shady millers and/or bakers would cut wheat flour with cheaper ingredients like chalk and cement in order to increase profit margins.
Yikes, cement! No wonder people got “backed up.”
I can't find any references regarding chalk & cement.
@@jdsguam Search youtube for "The Poisonous Horrors of The Victorian Kitchen | Hidden Killers | Absolute History" because they go into detail about both bread and milk were dangerously adulterated in the days before food safety regulations.
Europe had regulations for food safety long before USA did.
Yep... That'd plug yer arse...
"I must remove my teeth before I go insane!!!" - a clearly sane man
I mean it was a sane action for the time?
I see nothing wrong with that, the tongue must come out aswell
The tongue spreads covid 19 via saliva, therefore is dirty and unnessecary/harmful in the human body
@@thenewbrazy9997 can you remove mine? My doctor said no...!?😛
used to know someone that used to say this, he was half sane Lol
I had emergency colon surgery and the surgeon found out that most of my colon was shredding due to severe diverticulitis. He told my husband (while I was in recovery) that if I had waited a couple more weeks to come in for pain, I would have died.
He left the last 10 inches (the rectum is 10 inches long y’all! I didn’t know that before then!) and attached the small intestine to it.
Mostly, I crap more times per day than normal, and it’s usually “not solid.” Not a lot of storage space… The end of the small intestine can also widen to take on some characteristics of the large intestine. I have to worry about vitamin K deficiency and dehydration, but that’s about it. I have a ginormous scar from belly button to pubic bone, but I’m alive, so I’ll take it!
That's kinda of amazing! The fact that they can shorten it so much and it more or less functions about the same is crazy. It's cool how the body adapts.
I feel like scars are the badge of the survivor, the dead don't scar .....wear your scars with pride.... just my opinion
Just an FYI, to let everyone know - When people have their colon removed for legitimate medical reasons today, they often don't need to have a permanent ostomy. (poop bag that is attached to the abdomen.) It surprises me how many people still don't know that. For most people, unless they had Chron's Disease, they get what's called a J pouch. It's the standard of care in every developed country. It's a procedure where they fold the cutoff end of the small bowel into a J shaped pouch and sew it down into the anus, so that the person can still poop normally out of their butt. They have to poop several times a day, lose the ability to pass gas without having to sit on the toilet to do it, and the consistency is softer, but other than that, you have a totally normal life. I wish this would've been included in the bonus facts. It would be nice to be able to talk openly about the fact that you had this procedure, without people always automatically assuming that you're carrying around a poop bag, taped to you. Even some nurses that I've met before, including one who even took care of me during the time that I was having the operations didn't even know about this. That's ridiculous and needs to change.
Thanks for sharing - very educational.
I have a j pouch, I remember one time that I visited the G.P I had to draw him a diagram of what it was!
Another thank you, M.
RN here have looked after people with a J pouch before.
A lot of ppl have external pouches, it'd be cool if we didn't make it seem so embarrassing that you are concerned by ppl mistakenly thinking you do.
As someone with Crohn's disease that tried years of different difficult treatments, only to have to make the decision of having my colon removed and an ostomy made, this was FASCINATING! My life is so much better without my diseased colon, but a healthy functioning colon is still the dream.
Starbucks' new slogan: With blends like these, who needs enemas?
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Now if only they made coffee.
Epic!
LOL!
They do coffee enamas at Starbucks?
Near-total colectomies are still performed today, but for actual medically necessary reasons. For example, my wife's dad's family suffers from a genetic mutation that leads to 100% colon cancer rates, and nearly everyone on that side of the family, including my wife, have had their colons removed in order to try to prevent the onset of the colon cancer that is guaranteed to develop. One thing about the colon, though, is that it's where most of the water your body needs is actually absorbed, which leads to rapid dehydration in people who've had colectomies and a need to always have a bottle of water handy to stay hydrated. Still, I had no idea of the dark and dubious history behind the procedure. I'm just happy that it exists to save my wife's life. Thanks for the history lesson, Simon & crew!
@@adambartlett114 First, I don't know who you are, and you don't know my family or their medical histories, so please don't presume to give instructions on how we look out for the welfare of our children or second-guess the procedures that my wife, her siblings, and the rest of her family have had.
What would possibly give you the idea that we take such decisions as lightly as you seem to think we do? As I said, I don't know what your medical and surgical background is, but we have consulted with numerous gastroenterologists, oncologists, and surgeons over the past 20+ years, and the consensus among them has been unanimous-for persons in my wife's position with the confirmed genetic mutation that leads to familial adenomatous polyposis where death from the colon cancer typically occurs in the individual's 50s based on the type of mutation her family has, removal of the colon gives the patient the best chance of surviving the condition into their 70s. Yes, regular colonoscopies and endoscopies are still required to monitor what's left of the colon, the rectum, and the small intestine and stomach, but it's a small price to pay, particularly when the research on the disease indicates that fully 90% of cases manifest primarily with increasing numbers of polyps in the colon, with lesser percentages manifesting in other parts of the gastrointestinal system.
According to all of the specialists that we've consulted with over the past two decades, failure to remove the colon and simply continue to rely on traditional colonoscopy screenings would eventually result in an increasingly untenable situation, as the number and size of the polyps begins to increase exponentially after age 40, eventually reaching the point where colonoscopies and removal of the polyps will not be enough to keep up with their spread and their increasingly cancerous nature. All of the specialists recommended my wife have her colon removed around her 40th birthday, particularly as the most recently removed and tested polyps had all come back as precancerous and there was a very real fear that a colonoscopy within the next three years would reveal polyps that were fully cancerous. In no way did we make a "hasty decision," nor did I give you any indication in my previous comment that any decisions that we have made or will make in the future are hasty, and I, quite frankly, resent the implication. I've always assumed that all of us who watch these videos and leave comments are, to take a quote from Simon, "big brains."
Finally, in response to Mr. Bartlett's admonishment to "everybody else who reads this thread, please be careful and talk to reputable specialist doctors" and that "radical choices are becoming less and less reasonable in this environment," yes, please talk to your doctors and specialists. But, if they end up recommending a "radical choice," such as colon removal as in my wife's case, please take it seriously and do not immediately discount it just because it makes you uncomfortable. The success rate of these surgeries is amazingly high in today's world, and if the specialists are recommending it, it's because that's the best option available to you, in their expert opinion. Follow the science, and take care of yourselves.
@@randallyoung8297 can not imagine the ego trip it would take to try and lecture you on your wives medical choices.
I am so very happy that your wife and her family have had amazing doctors and specialists who have been on top of testing and treatments needed.
Ridiculous that you had to explain why that surgery decision was made by your wife and her doctors more cause some rando felt they knew more about her medical history and status then you.
@@katiearcher4475 lady. It's youtube. The comment sections are always full of wackos, narcissists, pseudo-intellectuals, mentally ill, and just plain a holes.
@@randallyoung8297 your a amazing husband for standing by her side. Also holy cow your wife is strong. I just googled the disease and it sounds tough. It doesn't look like much research goes into it. I hope they get more Grant's and have alot more discoveries and breakthroughs in your wife's and kid's lifetime.
@@adambartlett114 yeah… now look up familial adenomatous polyposis
I grew up in Romania in the 70s and 80s, and as a child I had a lot of colds with throat infections- so my doctor wanted to remove my tonsils. Lucky for me, my mother was a pediatrician and she disagreed with his diagnosis so she ended up leaving my tonsils untouched by the all-too-willing surgeon! I’m grateful! Because upon coming to the US, and visiting an ear nose and throat doctor, he told us removing the tonsils most likely will allow the infection to go straight to the lungs or upper respiratory tract. Also the problem was not with my tonsils; it was simply not receiving the correct medication! As a child I was always given antibiotics yet the issue was a fungal infection! So once I was given the right medication, those pesky throat infections never returned!
similar for me, but my prob was allergies all along!
These TikTok challenges are really getting out of hand.
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"There was no such thing as too many enemas". I'm not sure why I laughed so hard at this
Ancient Egyptians also second that comment
Watch 'the road to wellville' a comedy about Kellogg and his health spa
As a gay man I second the notion
That sounds like Mel Brooks' version of dr. Van Helsing in Dracula dead and loving it. He was a phyciateist who had all his patients have an enama.
I read this comment before I got to that part of the video
and when it came up, I _still_ laughed like a toddler who just heard the word “poop”!
This is the ultimate “The Past Was The Worst” video
I mean the plague kinda sucked too but if you say so
When people in 100 years look back I wonder what givens will be seen as horror. Crazy
Looking for this comment lol
Oh please, for your own sanity, don't look up early remedies for psychological disorders like "Theological Hysteria"... If you thought this was bad, those kinds of :questionable treatments" will scar your poor soul for life. ;o)
He was trying to cure the world of butt hurt, a very noble goal.
I find it hard to believe some of these people were motivated by positive goals vs just enjoying blood and slicing people up.
Still trying to find a cure for butt hurt
Alas, he failed and we are now forever awash with hordes of the butt hurt. Lately it seems like butts are more sensitive then ever before, and being hurt at a tremendous rate.
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I legit snort laughed reading this 🤣🤣🤣
How Simon can keep a straight face while saying the words "when doctors literally blew smoke up your ass"
Had me Rollin 🤣☠️
Today on TLC My strange addiction, I smoke a pack of cigarettes up my ass every day 😂
There has to be a gag reel of him cracking up in these more serious videos
I have seen Simon crack away though from the straight face. In fact, he did it not to long ago, I just need to find the video and time stamp, because it was hilarious.
@@nmspy how does your ass inhale all the smoke?
@@StageRight123 I'd like to see that. They need to do a brain blaze video of bloopers from all his channels lol.
I'm only 56 and back when I was an early teenager it was pretty much a rite-of-passage to have your tonsils removed. Fortunately for me, my father was a physicist and had a very poor regard for the medical profession "it's not proper science" and would not allow any medical intervention for anyone in our family unless it was critical.
As a physicist I can confirm that to this day there are only a couple of scientific fields that we consider "proper science"..
I remember seeing so many "kid gets pain in throat, gets tonsillectomy, gets ice cream" stories in comics and story books as a kid that I was sure it would happen to me at some point. Clearly, I just caught the remnant of writers who grew up with that as a regular practice for children.
Same, I thought this was much more likely to happen than it actually turned out to be.
Honestly with two nurses for parents I rarely got to do all the fun stuff at the hospital. My parents even stitched up one of our cats once. So while I feel cheated I know I'm also pretty damn blessed. So I don't complain.
My 2 neighbour kid got it, it is insane, i just gurgle and drink lemon juice whenever i got a sore throat, i remember when my throat got so red and inflamed, i just stop eating fried stuff and it heal by itself after a few days.
Same for me. I thought it was as predictable as losing baby teeth.
I'm in my early 20s, and I actually got a tonsillectomy as in grade school - which would have been in the late '00s. Wierd thinking that it was already phasing out by then.
There was a horrid theory that you HAD to have a bowel movement at least twice a day, EVERY day, or you weren't considered healthy. While growing up in the 40s and 50s my father was subjected to enemas twice a day to help keep him "regular". Until the day he died, he had to deal with IBS, chronic diarrhea, constipation, and I think it contributed to him developing severe diabetes--not to mention the psychological scars he had to carry around from being held down and forced to have his mother perform an intrusive act upon him.
I usually have a bowel movement once or twice a day without issue, but that does seem a little excessive for something that isn't necessarily even beneficial. I have had relatives who have died from severe constipation but the data on what the ideal bowel movement frequency is, is still somewhat limited so we don't know if there is a benefit to having them more frequently than roughly once every other day or so. Regardless your father's experience definitely sounds pretty horrible.
Damn. That really sounds horrible, but I got similar stories from my mom. But I'm really happy that my parents got over those toilet training issues when they had me and did not enforce their messed up upbringing on me in that regard. My mom seems to have taken laxatives nearly all her adult life, but as long as I was okay, she didn't interfere with my pooping schedule ;)
To be fair, I have my own toilet issues. I just don't like to take a dump anywhere else than in the safety of my home, so when travelling it will take me a few days to adapt an find an apropriate sense of safety. So when we went on a holiday or even camping... I could be quite happy not shitting for 3-4 days. The longest so far was a bit over a week, but I also didn't eat and my body vented all intestinal contents before because I had a pancreatitis about 8 years ago...
@@EyMannMachHin
Some people get to choose to shit in the safety of their home.
But think about the millions upon millions who never had the opportunity to have a safe home.
And I’ll leave you with this- the water that fills toilets is drinking water.
You only feel safe to poop into the drinking water inside your own house?
Strange things people do.
@@fastinradfordable I probably wouldn't if I had grown up anywhere else. I don't even know where I got that notion and it only takes a bit of time for my to adjust my subconscious to a stange environment. But one thing holds it can take me 2-7 days to adjust to a new environment. Like having to use squat toilets on a greek camping ground.
@@fastinradfordable What a bizarre question, where do you shit and into what? I also have traveller's constipation for day or two, its subconscious and quite common.
Strange that the height of enemas was also largely during a time when veggies were deemed unhealthy.
Veggies are mostly fiber for the most part if anything, they would constipate you even more.
@@martaleszkiewicz5115 Since I went vegan I have never been constipated, allegorical I know. That meat heavy diets lead to constipation however is not allegorical
@@martaleszkiewicz5115 um no, maybe expand your knowledge
@@martaleszkiewicz5115Um, fibre actually does the opposite. It prevents your faeces from getting compacted i.e. constipated. Have you never seen a Metamucil commercial in your life? Or even one of the hundreds of food commercials endorsing their product as being high in fibre and thus helping you "stay regular" (as in having a regular bowel movement)?
Veggies were never deemed unhealthy. Thats an ignorant modern misconception.
I had my tonsils yanked when I was 4 years old. Chronic strep throats and ear aches plus high fevers were my frequent lot. God it was awful. Felt like a knife was being turned in my ears. I had penicillin pills and shots on a regular basis. Finally one night I was wrapped in a yellow blanket and rushed to the on call pediatrician when my fever went way above 104 and wasn't coming down. That was when they decided to yank my tonsils. Doctor was worried that I might lose my hearing.
Be happy that you had them out at 4. I had mine out at 50, my 50th birthday. It took me down for 6 weeks. It was like a burn and a paper cut together and doused with a never-ending supply of rubbing alcohol, all in my throat.
Sorry that you were just kids and the fevers were the worst, but 3 or 4 days of ice cream put a silver lining on the dark cloud of your memories and you were right as rain afterwards.
The past was wild, your typical A to B thought process was like: "Most injury is due to poor decision making so we should remove the brain the live longer!", or "Can't break your bones if we take them all out".
All I could think of was the line from Mel Brooks's movie Dracula Dead and Loving it, when threatened with an enema from the psychiatric staff at the asylum Renfield screams, "no! Not ANOTHER enema!" To which Dr. Seward responds with, "Yes another, and another! Until you come to your senses!"
I had my tonsils removed in the early sixties. I later found the hospital bill that my parents received. Sixty five dollars for the procedure and an overnight stay. Many years later I was getting my yearly checkup and my doctor casually mentioned that my tonsils looked fine??? Yup. They grew back!
I had my second tonsillectomy when I was 40, 35 years after the first.
@@llamasugar5478 Fortunately for me they haven't caused me a problem. At 68 they've given me no problems.
...they dont grow back, your parents were scammed
@@loafywolfy When I questioned my doctor he said that on rare occasions they do grow back... so I'll believe my doctor. 😆
@@loafywolfy Apparently, not all of the tissue was excised. I don’t know how or why the remaining bits began to expand, but they did. And just like before, they started getting inflamed and painful.
I saw the title and thought it referred to the gluteus muscle, the one we sit on and wondered: ‘how did they sit down after?’ Needless to say, the true topic of the episode is SO much worse!😯
I thought the same thing. Holy smokes, what a shit show this was!
Ditto!
That’s exactly why I came here !!!! How the heck did THAT look after having their butt removed?!?. Lol. This is even grosser and more interesting.
To be fair, if you literally had your gluteus (maximus or all three or whatever) removed, sitting wouldn't be the hard part, it'd be standing that you'd find nearly impossible or at least have to really adapt XD
I'm a pedantic nerd who loves taking excuses to fact-dump, I'm sorry
Me too I was kinda disappointed. Because it sounded so hilarious
A set of my grandmother's twins died of "Toxic diarrhea" in the early 1900s. Being as a family a funeral home workers some joked about "What a sh*tty way to die," but then my father died at Johns Hopkins of a bowel obstruction, so he ended up dying "full of sh*t."
It's all about the story that you leave behind that matters, so don't be the butt of the jokes
Have a great day everyone!!!
I love your comment!
Between this and the newest e-book I started on, it is a wonder our ancestors survived early medicine so we could all be here now.
People in the past survived by having so many children that, statistically, some of them had to.
@@jruler93 Very true. It was also standard to have children at a younger age which means even though the average lifespan meant dying sooner, people were still being produced.
Just in time to poison ourselves with our own excrement, in the form of CO2, plastic, chemicals, anti-depressants and 'Reality' TV.
My ancestors are dead
what book are you reading
Tonsilectomies started to go out of fashion just as I reached the age where I would have had one. My older brother had his tonsils taken out; my younger brother and I kept our tonsils. I haven’t noticed it making a big difference in the health of any of us.
But I’ve got to think that taking out organs just because you can is a bad medical policy. Of course, sometimes something has to come out. But leaving your organs where you found them should be the default plan.
Very well said!
My dad told me he had to submit to weekly enemas as a child. And he had a tonsillectomy. I didn’t know you could live without your large colon. Though he had cataract surgery in both eyes that was painless and restored his vision. I guess we have evolved a little.
There’s thousands of us living without our colons! It’s not great but much better than bleeding out through it and not being able to digest food.
There are almost as many nerves in the bowel as there are in the human brain. There is a correlation between IBS and migraine. Dude wasn’t far off in his ideas about the brain and the GI system.
Yeah there's a lot of evidence for gut microbiome links to neurocognitive function/behavioral illness as well
There does indeed seem to be some sort of link, but removing the entire colon isn't how you "cure" mental illness, just like you don't "cure" any mental illnesses by performing a lobotomy.
@@PanthereaLeonis Well yeah certainly, I know I wasn't and I'm fairly sure OP wasn't making these observations in defense of the method applied, just saying the reasoning involved wasn't entirely bonkers lol
Agreed. A lot of the comments Simon made in this video were questionable.
@@toomanyopinions8353 Can you be more specific? I'm decently literate in medical topics and moderately pedantic but I didn't notice anything questionable. (Although I admit it was late when I watched this and I'm not always the most observant person)
I had to have a large part of my intestines removed (for a VERY good reason!), and I was told how very very dangerous this surgery still was as no matter how "cleaned out" you were still at high risk of infection. Also high in all sorts of horrors....I was LUCKY, and just had a "normal" recovery by 2 weeks in the hospital and misery for weeks at home and PT to get my strength back... and I can't imagine anyone just "Oh let's do this a lot as you are constipated!"
Seriously, major abdominal surgery takes a while to recover. And hurts like nuts for 3-7 days typically.
I'm so glad you mentioned that this attitude still continues to this day. I kept thinking that. I got this ad all the time on RUclips that starts with "Did you know at any given time you are full of TOXIC POOP?" Fad "cleanses" meant to give you diarrhea for weeks really seem like they are coming from these roots.
I was at work in 2012 when I suddenly had so much pain in my back that I couldn't move. Had to have another manager close up the restaurant. The next day, I had to go to instacare, and they diagnosed it as constipation. Well, none of what they gave me helped. When I finally got a decent scan done, they found a spinal injury that still bothers me today. Now I'm imagining getting that injury 100 years earlier and having my colon removed...
Bowel health was very important to my grandmother. She would ask everyone at the breakfast table if they had already had a bowel movement that day. If not, she would check on that person at lunchtime. God forbid you make it all the way until to the dinner table without a bowel movement. She didn’t confine her inquiries to just family- if you ate with us, you were fair game for the healthy bowel questionnaire. Some people we warned, others we just threw into the fire. lol
Only a few years ago I had part of my colon removed in a Hartmanns procedure (colostomy bag)
The history of this life saving surgery is quite interesting a would be worthy of a video.
After reversal, having a good fart again was one of the best things I've ever experienced👍
Hope your wife enjoys your farthing as much as you do 😉
@@peterkoller3761 Good things should be shared😁
"Let me cut it out for you."
ME: "Yours first."
he removed his teeth when he thought he was going insane..if you're removing your own teeth you're already there
And you’re definitely there if you start on your children.
Well done Simon, you condensed 400 odd years of dumb-schitt surgical interventions that continued on through to 1978. I had worked in an operating theatre for a period of some 5 & a half years, That was when and where both tonsils and adenoids removal was recommended for younger persons... that had been diagnosed considered to be necessary to eliminate their T' and As by that 1970s era of elderly surgeons... that had learned and trained their specialist skills when that sort of quackery was still an accepted surgical procedure. Thankfully the medical diagnostics and surgical procedures had moved rapidly forward from that era. That was around the same era (the 1970s) that cryogenic surgery began to become a new surgical phenomenon.
I wonder if this "chronic constipation" was kind of a first world problem, something that afflicted wealthy or middle class people of the industrial age with a sedentary lifestyle because their diets were a lot of meats and things that are expensive, refined white flour, compared to a peasant diet that includes a lot of whole grains and greens because they grow it themself and it's 'poor people food'. Peasant food and daily physical labor would probably keep them regular. But instead of just changing their diet and exercising more, the rich people remove their whole colon.
Please don't, this is hurtful. Chronic constipation is a very real issue for some people and it causes a great deal of suffering and interference with daily life. It can be caused by various known ailments or sometimes the cause is never found so they just slap the IBS label on it. To suggest people who've struggled their whole life with this awful condition are just lazy and not eating right is really insulting. Only thing I didn't like about this video was that it seemed to imply that just because it was very very wrong of people to attribute everything to chronic constipation, and to treat that by removing the colon, that means chronic constipation isn't an actual medical issue. It is.
@@dolomedestenebrosus9564 It depends on what's causing it. A _lot_ of constipation can be cured with hydration, diet, and exercise. But not all. If your bowel is becoming paralyzed for instance. Or certain medications can cause issues. But even in those cases, the situation generally receives a net improvement from hydration, diet, and exercise.
But I don't think OP said or even implied anything hurtful here. Perhaps you are projecting conversations from the past onto OP.
@@someperson7 possibly, I may have misunderstood what op was saying. But the video itself talked about chronic constipation as if it was a made-up problem, at least it really came off that way to me, and so did the comment. I and others with constipation-dominant ibs or other ailments that cause chronic constipation have often been struggling with it a long time, and the common advice "eat more fiber, drink more water" simply is not the answer for us or we'd not still be suffering - trust me, that's the first suggestion I hear, over and over again, when seeking help. It's a little insulting, like I have never even tried or heard of the most basic, ubiquitous constipation treatment ever when this issue has plagued me my whole life. Sorry if I'm still misinterpreting what is being implied but it's really frustrating.
@@dolomedestenebrosus9564 I get that. It's the basic advice. And you probably get it over and over. It's probably pretty tedious.
Thanks for the compassion, I appreciate that
There were 2 things those surgeons got right:
1. We do sometimes remove the colon - IF there's a good medical reason for doing so. Colectomy, as it is termed, is curative for ulcerative colitis. A partial colectomy is also sometimes done due to issues such as a congenital lack of nerves leading to part of the colon (which means that part of the colon doesn't work) and death of the colon due to issues such as a torsion (twisting) or strangulated hernia.
2. There IS a connection between mental illness and the colon - but not necessarily in the way they thought. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in some mental illnesses, including depression and anxiety. We now know that there are more serotonin receptors in your GI tract than in your brain, and that sometimes changes to serotonin levels can affect the GI tract. For example, there's a link between irritable bowel syndrome and some mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety disorders. They tend to occur together. This doesn't necessarily mean that one causes the other, BUT it can indicate a common source.
Something the generation that kept their tonsils is discovering that the older generation doesn't know anything about: tonsil stones.
Tonsil stones hurt they they grow big in size.
I hate them
Simon, how do have any free time while still hosting a million shows? I'm not complaining, i love it. Please don't stop.
He doesn't. 🤭 Sounds like we're getting another new channel soon too. 🎉
All the writing and editing is done by his team
He had himself cloned in a top secret lab in Antarctica.
@@slcpunk2740 we just got “into the shadows” a month ago, is he really going to start another one so soon?
@@Dsp-uo8en he hinted at something like 'war projects' on a recent video but really, megaprojects and sideprojects would then suffer
I can see simon biting his lip waiting to drop that joke at the end. Look at that smile 😃
Wow, I had never heard of this insane push to remove the large colon. Good God that sounds terrible.
My mom had an illeostomy and that was no picnic. That bag had to be changed and cleaned and it stunk until mom got the hang of it. Also those colostomy bags back then didn't have a secure lock. You used a hair barret. A long silver one. And they didn't always stay shut either. And my mom cared about her appearance. Was she depressed? Yes.
@@shawnnewell4541 Bless her that sounds terrible.
Maybe if the Drs hadn’t been so busy getting their patients to quaff down laudanum, smoke opium, and many other methods to get opiates inside them, they wouldn’t have had the constipation that lead them to believe that lower bowel immotility was such a problem?
But then even today Drs will sometimes prescribe one medicine to combat the problem, and another to combat the side effects of the first so we haven’t moved on that much
Well, I suppose Cotton’s loss of 45% of his surgical patients could be counted as successful cure of mental illness as the dead do not suffer from mental illness. /s 😖
Loved the ending you gave this one, btw.
Had to have my tonsils removed at 2. I kept constant throat and ear infections with fevers consistently going to 104 F. Throat would swell to the point of me turning blue, surgery saved my life.
There's the right way to say colon,
There's the wrong way to say colon,
Then there's the way Simon says colon.
Co-lawn ;>)
I still wonder what Colin Powell's parents were thinking.
@@sunnyquinn3888 🤣🤣🤣
I always thought it was ‘Colon Power’. Like he was some sort of super hero..
@@potatoes4843 Colon Power - sounds like me, the last time I ate chili beans 😁. You wouldn't have wanted to be downwind without a clothes pin for your nose....
To be honest I am shocked that only 30% of these people died from having such a surgery especially considering when they where conducted.
I used to have terrible ear aches with horrendous nightmares and fevers up until I had my tonsils. Once they were removed at 14 years old. I never sustained ear aches to that degree again.
Did you know that they thought the tissue surrounding organs was just “packaging?” I think now we refer to them as connective tissues. Some of which are thought to be useful for proprioception.
And..... this is what created "medical experts" today hahaha
Connective tissues better describes them but their function is basically packaging.
@@kevinconrad6156 Not in the slightest! Fascia is like 40% nerve fibers in many parts of it e.g. lumbar aponeurosis etc., and the structural integrity/force-transmission roles it serves as part of the neuromusculoskeletal system are well-documentedly vital and are considered in everything from manual therapies to yoga to orthopedic surgery. What do you think your IT band is made out of? Pfft "packaging", you trippin' :P Even the most stubbornly behind-the-times allopathic docs are decently hip to this by now, or we're getting close to that
@@kevinconrad6156 fat is ct, so is blood. Not so sure it’s just packaging.
Funny how these insane surgeons never take their own procedures.
Yep, except for the guy who removed his own teeth because he thought he was going insane... I mean, he wasn't wrong... Even though he was completely wrong...
You can't operate on yourself, and these were often new techniques only one or a few people knew how to do.
well, except those two guys who experimented with cocaine and did experiments on each other
@@sjhart14 says who? I've performed several minor surgeries on myself, with no training. I'm sure a practiced surgeon would have little difficulty performing more invasive surgery on themselves, so long as his/her vision isn't obstructed.
@@sjhart14 Well, there was an Arctic expedition where the team doctor got sick, and operated on himself. I think, but I’m not positive, that it was an appendectomy.
"Your organs can't fail if we take them out first"
"The development of the rectal smoking pipe." Well those are definitely words I didn't expect to hear next to each other.
It is surprising the the YT algorithm didn't tag this particular video with the Internet classic ad that informs viewers that their colons are full of "5 to 20 pounds of toxic poop". . .
It's safe to assume anyone selling a way to "remove toxins" is a quack or con artist.
Ha ha, I’ve had that one too, it’s hilarious! Just shows that some people still believe this shit.
Mine was full of 5-20 pounds of poop… that a day of laxatives and enemas cleared out and left me more underweight than I seemed.
You could do a whole video about how doctors have viewed the appendix
You could do a while video about how doctors view the appendix today
Did I just watch a 20 min video that just a set up for a one liner joke at the end? Well played.
A relative of mine had a sus colon removal surgery as a child in the late 1950s/possibly the early 60s. Time to ask some follow up questions...
the far more subtle forms of sarcasm you use make all your videos/channels all the better :)
When I was a US Army medic, I found that many gastro intestinal problems during sick call would clear up with some Metamucil, a soluble fiber that helps regulate gut bacteria
My husband was in the military until recently and they give them all laxative gum. I think it's because they add iron to everything they eat, which can cause constipation
It's funny that we used to call the tonsils, spleen, and appendix vestigial but we have since discovered, within the last 30 yrs, that they all actually play vital roles in the immune system. We also now know that gut health is important to mental health due to the vagal nervous system which is found in both the gut and the brain (constipation no, healthy bacteria yes).
I have Crohn’s disease and I had my right colon removed a few years ago. It was the most painful surgery I have had, including childbirth a c-section and removal of a Fallopian tube. I can’t imagine what it was like back then!
Circumcision is still commonly performed. It's a horrible surgery that will one day be looked upon as ancient torture.
I already view it as such, just horrible!
Stay until the end.
Simon's sendoff line alone makes this shit worth it.
There are still infomercials trying to sell potions to rid one of "toxic waste", to this very day.
AND while they've decreased in popularity to a degree since their "new hey-day" in the 80's... There are still places advocating "colonics" which are similar to enemas on steroids... "Because food you ate years ago is still in there somewhere... rotting away inside you."
Quackery is still strong and separating fools from their money... and occasionally from the help they actually NEED... ;o)
For a second I was worried I had my tonsils out for a stupid reason, then I remembered I had them out because I was freaking Typhoid Mary-ing my second grade class with strep lol and it's not great to have strep just chilling in a kid for a month plus. And it was in like 2004
Yeah mine were preventing me from breathing in my sleep properly, so I have no issue having them taken out, but it was back in 2005
I had my tonsils out at age 6 because I had strep throat 13 times in one year and every time I got it I would run 105 or 106 degree fever! It’s was terrible. Since Ive had them out, I’ve only had strep 3 times. (In twenty + years)
I wish my parents would have listened to my doctor as a child bc I’m still constantly sick from sinus infections and strep/sore throat. Now in my 30’s it is a hard to recover from procedure according to every doctor I’ve tried to get to do these things now. 🤦🏼♀️ and now I’m allergic to most antibiotics and steroids (from total anaphylactic response to hives and vomiting depending on what it is.) fun times 😒 parents if they say they need sinus tissue or tonsils out do it for the love..
"This revolution in surgery came with it's fair share of quackery". Especially when the suergons of that Era began preforming highly controversial Duckectomys.
If you had a duck anywhere inside you I bet you'd want it removed immediately.
I still laugh seeing Simon say these rediculous sentences without laughing. I also want to know when Sam will put the gag reel on an episode of brain blaze!
This is horrifying
So that's where the phrase "I'm not jus blowing smoke up yo azz lol
One of the biggest causes of constipation: Dehydration.
DRINK... FREAKING... WATER!!!!!!!!
This is why I eat Colon Blow cereal for every meal. My colon can be used to reach orbit.
Rip Phil Hartman. She killed both SNL and the Simpsons with a single pull of the trigger. Crazy, she should have had her butt removed or maybe her teeth idk.
Colon Blow, from the makers of Oops I Crapped My Pants brand adult diapers
I am a colon cancer survivor and I had to have my whole large intestine removed and it sucks. I can say it’s a struggle on a daily basis not having one.
It's funny how all these "Quacks" where quick to remove people's gut but not their own.
I was 4 years old, it was 1996 in the US. My parents decided to get my tonsils removed.They weren't causing any chronic infections, but they were trying to kill me. According to the doctor & surgeon, I had the most severe case of "kissing tonsils" they'd seen which hadn't caused complications. They looked fine but my airway was restricted in general; My tonsils were touching (hence being called "kissing tonsils") making my airway more narrow. That itself was not great but it was even worse at night. If I slept flat on my back, my airway would reduce to the size of a straw or be cut off entirely by my tonsils. I had to sleep sitting up or on my side with pillows stacked so I couldn't roll over onto my back, all just to be able to breathe in my sleep. They told my parents that the older I got the harder the recovery would be & the thing that made them give the go ahead, despite me being so young & risks of general anesthesia being so scarey, was how my doctor told them that he was genuinely shocked I hadn't already suffocated in my sleep yet. So, bye bye tonsils!
I have a story similar to yours, had mine removed in 2005 and havnt been happier
I had tonsils removed because I often got tonsillitis, and my adenoids(sp?) removed at the same time because I as a 10 year old would snore like an old man and would experience frequent but brief nosebleeds at random.
Basically both would make me sick often enough and monstrous sounding that they were surgically removed.
But I found out from non western or British friends that people in other countries just keep their tonsils even if they frequently get tonsillitis.
Weird part is despite both being made for trapping germs and viruses to keep you from getting sick, I've rarely gotten ill since they were removed.
When I watched this I thought how fortunate we are not to have been born in the GOOD OL DAYS🙄. We have our bad doctors but this was something nightmares are made of.
I had my tonsils removed when I had my Throat cancer surgery. I'd love to see a video on tracheostomies
I don’t know how common it is now, but in the 1990s Tonsillectomy was still shockingly common. In fact I had mine removed in 1993-4 at the age of 4-5 (don’t exactly remember).
However I do remember being told they were swelling up a lot and “closing my throat” rather regularly. It happened 3-4 times before the doctors said, “that’s it, they’re coming out.” I was promised all the ice cream I could eat! But ultimately I only got down a single spoonful.
In hindsight, it was probably unnecessary and the swelling was likely due to childhood allergies and the overall “booting up” of my immune system that comes from being exposed to common pathogens for the first time. However, on the off chance that they would’ve caused me life-long problems, I’m glad they came out when they did because I hear that having them removed as an adult is incredibly hard as well as much more prolonged and painful.
We had to get my son’s out 3 years ago when he was 6. They were huge, even when he wasn’t sick. They were so swollen he had a space about as big around as a pencil to breathe through. He started to stop breathing when he slept and that’s when we decided they needed to come out.
That’s nothing, what about the early 21st century obsession with removing body parts?
Or Addadicktomies?
I'm on a hospital waitlist for getting those parts removed. So this just feels bizzare to see this show up. Hospital wait lists are years long but I'm keen to get this done.
Can I ask, why is there such a long wait list to get parts removed? I understand why transplant wait lists would be years long, but it seems like they wouldn’t need to wait for anything if they’re just removing parts you already have. Unless it’s considered an elective surgery and there’s just a general operating room backlog?
Since the large intestine absorbs water from the digested food, I would think that removing it and connecting the small intestine directly to the anus would result in very liquid stool, like permanent diarrhea . Or every fart becomes a shart. That would not be pleasant, would those people have to wear diapers for the rest of their life? Plus they would get chronically dehydrated. I mean constipation is unpleasant too but the constipated person has more ability to 'hold it in' when it's a solid, compared to a liquid.
All too true. I had to have my colon removed due to what we believed to be ulcerative colitis. I had the small intestine hooked back up with the end made into a “J pouch” unfortunately it was actually Crohns and I got an ostomy later on when. I was 20 years old walking around in fear of any fart, I literally couldn’t hold it in became the crohns caused to much pain and I wore large pads constantly. It was hell. I demanded to get my ileostony, and I’ve never regretted it. I can become dehydration very very easily, I’ve been in urgent care 3 times this summer to get fluids, being dehydrated is not just being thirsty, I get lethargic, my leg muscle ps cramp like hell, headache, very tired and hot. Not fun at all and very dangerous for the kidneys. I’m not sure what exactly would happen to a totally health person who didn’t have crohns, and removed their colon, but you would definitely never had a solid stool and definitely be subjected to a high risk of dehydration. The colon is there for a reason!
@@catwell88 oh no, that sounds like so much suffering at such a young age. I'm so sorry you've been through all this.
@@catwell88
Hope you’re doing better. I’ve found out that life changed after my gallbladder was removed, seems it also was there for a reason.
‘Every fart becomes a shart’ is a beautiful song title
As a Crohn's disease sufferer for 30+ years, my total Colectomy and total Proctectomy has saved me and totally changed my life. When people I know ask me what my butt looks like after the surgery, I tell them to look at a Ken doll's butt!
And we can thank Kellogg and his ilk for my generation getting preventive circumcisions. Done for hygienic reasons was the thinking at the time. Babies are now spared this barbaric procedure and are all the better for it.
I can happily say I had my tonsils removed due to severe infection and not just because. I was 6 years old (52 currently) and I still remember how hard it was to swallow before, and the mint chocolate chip ice cream I had after.
The part about needing a high-fiber diet is actually correct, though I can't guarantee it will make poop move through the colon faster.
As a younger millennial I remember being told that I should have my tonsils removed. With four children now, I have never been told they should have their tonsils removed. We are a weird species.
1986
Remember, these were the health experts back in the day. Trust the science.
$cience ™
Yes and it wasn't science that proved them wrong, that was youtube commentors.
@@ronfhs58 lmao history DOES repeat itself 😂
I can’t stop laughing. Imagine a crowd surrounding an unconscious soaking wet person on the banks of river and some guy runs up and yelling “give me room, I’m going to save this man!” Only to stand there bewildered at why pumping smoke into his butt didn’t save him.
Surgery should always be a last resort after everything else has failed. I did need to remove my teeth, but they were so infected I was concerned about the infection moving up into my jaw bone. However, if it's not broke, don't fix it.
Agreed if you add medications. I am drug free and wish to remain that way unless it is life-threatening.
One of my sons has tonsillitis,that is his tonsils get infected often. The pediatrician has told me that unless it gets in the way of breathing or swallowing they won't remove them. Considering that it's painful and he has to be checked for strep throat every time I wish they would just do the operation.
My colon actually tried to kill me - toxic mega colon - which is why I don’t have one. It was a useless organ anyway. 😂
Thanks. Toxic Mega-Colon is now my band name.😂
So, let’s review… If I went to a restaurant in 17th century France, they would feed me laxatives and put a bazooka-sized syringe in my back door, and tell me it’s for my own good? Man, the past really was the worst…
…then again, I’ve voluntarily walked into a modern Taco Bell once or twice and FELT LIKE it gave me a radical colonectomy…
A little off the top and sides sir?
No! The bottom please my good man, and make it quick, I’ve a social to attend!
Loved it ty Simon another Awsome one
"Up your butt and around the corner” - restuarant origins
🤣🤣 I totally forgot about this phrase until this very second.
I call bologna on the tonsillectomy bit at the end. Namely the removal only if chronic infections. I grew up in the 80's and had either strep or tonsillitis at least 2 times a year. They wouldn't take them out no matter how bad it got because, they said, the tonsils are essential to your lymphatic system. Let me tell you what, gargling warm salt water was the bane of my existence. Come to find out, my tonsils should have been removed for their size alone. I have sleep apnea, which was exacerbated by my tonsils and when I had them removed I was able to stay awake while driving, talking, working basically any activity that involves staying awake!!! I still have to use my machine but went from 20 PSI to 9!!! Thank goodness we raised this concern with daughters doctor and she was able to get hers removed at the age of 4. Doing it at 32 was horrible
Ah~ human morbid pursue for perfection.
Something I never knew I need in my life.
Watching your beard grow over the years has been my favorite pastime
"For most of human history, surgery was a..."
"bloody, painful, and dangerous affair." OR
"bloody painful (!) and dangerous affair."