I almost couldn't watch until the end of that one. How does a parent make that choice, knowing one of their kids would die? I don't think I would be strong enough to make that choice.
@@penelopegrier5073 They are thinking about, what kind of life would have 2 different people who are link together permanently. Plus I think having a link by the head make having an independant live way more difficult than a link by the back, or by the hips
I know that I in no way have had an experience anything like being a conjoined twin, but just thinking for myself, living like that, I would want to take the 50% chance at death so that I could actually live life.
I first learned this from a movie, I don't remember what movie it was (like 14-15 years since I watched it), and I later did some reading about it (close to watching the movie, so don't remember those sources either). What I do remember is that young children has not applied specific functions to areas of their brain, and that young kids (not sure what the age limit is, probably sub 3yo IIRC) can survive with half their brain removed (left or right). I'm not a doctor though, let alone a brain surgeon, but I'm guessing the young age operation was in their favor.
It was like watching the literal inverse of the documentary I saw recently about “Dr. Death.” These surgeons were able to give each of their patients life.
@@greenapple9477I’m pretty sure they meant 40 hours of total surgeries. Like multiple surgeries, all adding up to 40 hours. Not a 40 hour straight surgery
As someone who is short (5'4 at 20) I can say short person dysphoria is created by society. Most of my bullies were girls who picked on my smaller stature and I hear short jokes all the time. It used to bother me but I've learned to live with it and joke along as I found it better to make jokes than be angry which usually feeds into more bullying.
I was teased for being tall and that was mainly my friends doing it. but for the most part people left me alone probably bc they thought I could kick their ass
TW: Suicide As a survivor of MDD(major depressive disorder), seeing someone being so kind to someone else even with self-inflicted trauma rips my heart out. There are too many lovely people who have been unfortunate who deserve to be loved back. Looking back now, I've realized that every single person who has so much as looked at you or even just walked by you would care if you left. Who cares if you don't have people to talk to? There's still that old lady that you held the door open for, or the cashier at your local grocery store who smiles whenever you walk in. You are loved. And no matter how distant the words seem, no matter how much everything hurts, you are not alone.🖤
As one with the same depression, I’ve entered my first non depressive phase, and like you I’ve come to see how many would miss me ❤ wish you the best for the future
Totally! It's also shocking sometimes to find out how long other surgeries have been taking place. I had a colostomy and found out that Napoleon had one. Who knew they were doing that surgery way back then.
It really is beautiful to see the motivation behind studies of medicine. There are so many wonderful people in the world who deserve to live their life to its fullest.
Its fascinating but its helpfull just for rich people, once you have some disease or damage that isn't common there is not enough researches in that area and there are very few doctors in whole world that can help but it costs money that most people don't have
@@Generralethe guy who had a computer chip in his brain to let him walk. Elon musk is trying to do something like this, it’s called “neural-link” it’s really cool.
Dr. Mike is such a respecting person. He doesn’t judge anyone on his channel. If it’s a mental issue he encourages them to get help instead of calling them crazy or weird. For example, he advised people who are thinking about having limb lengthening surgery to first think about the mental health components of it before undergoing with any kind of physical treatment.
Now that he got popular, his "no judgement" was not always a thing and caused quite the drama back in the day. Much like the "adam ruins the hospital" video he needed to do like 5 "Well, I didn't mean!!!!" follow up vids.
@@jacobp8306 he’s funny, but, yeah, he should be careful. I just think it’s okay to be weird and funny. Someone earlier worried about people being called weird. I think it’s been proven that it’s okay to be weird. I wonder though if perhaps some can rarely be too weird. It’s Not something to really freak over. If you are freaking out about how weird you feel, hopefully you all have means to seek assistance. (Edit: I missed a couple words.)
my husband is a bit shorter than me, initially he felt insecure but i made him realize from day one I did not care. he has a good heart that's it matters. years later he showed me same or ever more compassion and stands by me after gaining weight due to health issue and ppl started taunting or treating me bad, he is my pillar of support. we should feel good how ever we are.
I'm just flabbergasted that being 5' 7" was so unacceptable to that guy, that he'd spend so much time, money, and pain to get a couple inches taller. My dad is 5' 7", it doesn't interfere with his quality of life.
Best part of being a short dude dating (and marrying) a tall lady... Legs for miles!!! On my wedding day i wore three inch heel riding shoes, and my wife was barefoot. We took our vows looking each other dead in the eye.
It's completely gross to make fun of anyone for their weight (over or under weight) but it's another level of gross when it's due to a medical condition. I'm glad you and your husband found each other, two good hearts deserve to be together.
@@ameliarose47 thank you. He is the best thing that happened to me ..God has been merciful towards me . Growing up I had a tough time but now I am in a better place. :)
And vice versa. In the process of explaining it to a patient, you are obligated by the situation to yourself understand the procedure and consequences well. That is a particular learning phenomenon: the teacher always learns more than the student.
I agree he does not talk to you as if you are a child (which I hate) but, explains things in a educational way yet still is thorough. My husband is like this. If I ask something about cars that I do not know he educates me but, does not belittle me for asking.
I was born with a genetic bone disorder called MHE (multiple hereditary exostosis) and I had my arm lengthened with an external fixator to combat the dislocation of my radial head. It was one of the hardest surgeries I've had. Because I go to a specialist in limb lengthening (among other things) I've met many people who have had limbs lengthened for various reasons, mostly due to limb length discrepancies. Getting a bone lengthened is such a difficult thing to go through, i would never recommend it just for cosmetic reasons.
I agree, that was pretty appalling. I have had *necessary* surgery multiple times, but my parents always told me that going under general anesthesia is a risk and shouldn't be done casually. Granted the risk in modern times is very small, but it's not zero. I van hardly believe this guy is a doctor but apparently he is.
It sounds like it'd be incredibly painful! I can understand people getting it done for medical reasons, but for cosmetic? Get over yourself shrimp! But I guess you can look at it like this: every time a doctor does another limb lengthening, it's still experience that will make them a better surgeon for all the patients, right?
I don't know the details but my uncle had polio when he was a baby and had a number of surgeries on his legs during in his childhood. Of course, this was in the 50s so I don't know what the available treatments were like then. One of his legs is still a little shorter than the other and he wears specially made shoes with lifts that helped compensate for that difference.
@@pandroidgaxie You can't believe a guy qualified to do limb lengthening surgery is a doctor? I'm pretty sure he doesn't only do it for cosmetics purposes, but even if he did, so what? He's a doctor, not judgemental like you. Is your problem with people getting cosmetic surgery or the doctors willing to do it? Either way, not your concern.
Ankylosing spondylitis is so painful and life changing. Whilst I know we aren’t all like the man in China, we definitely struggle. It’s definitely not just a “oh my mum has a sore knee” type of arthritis.
I feel for you all, and my guy Li Hua was an absolute champ when it came down to it. We didn't necessarily see him in his day to day, but he seemed to keep it together through this.
When my nephew was in utero docs discovered a benign tumour on his lung and we were warned that if it grew they'd have to operate but thankfully it didn't. He had it removed along with a portion of his lung when he was about 9 months old. He's 14 now and is 100% fine, it's amazing how far medical science has come and we're so, so thankful to have the NHS
As an epileptic myself, the research study information you showed from the American Academy of Neurology hit hard and I wish would people would talk about it. I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 13 years old, im now 21. I take medication daily to control my nocturnal and absence seizures, a months worth of pills costs about $180. My rescue medication is a 1mg of Clonazepam, i only get those in blister packs of 10-15 at a time because it is a controlled substance and they still cost $300 each time??? My life saving medication should not be the equivalent of a car payment. Big pharma loves to capitalize on people with chronic conditions.
Agreed. I mean just look at insulin. We've known how to make insulin since the early 1900's, I think somewhere around 1920 and improved in the 1930's, and that process hasn't changed a whole hell of a lot. Insulin was right around 30 bucks for DECADES then is the past 10 years prices here in the US have tripled if not more because companies want more money. I know people who literally ration their insulin because they can't afford as much as their doctors say they need.
Holy... wow. That's absolutely insane!! I'm from Poland and here 30 pills of Clonazepam 2mg is about $4.5 😱 for a person with diagnosed epilepsy it'd be about $1 or free. Aspirin or OTC painkillers are more expensive than benzodiazepines 🧐🤷♀️
Big pharma is disgusting. They will charge a 3,000% markup on medication that costs them pennies to produce. If I lived in the US I'd be dead because I wouldn't be able to afford the medications I need for my anaemia.
try going full keto, it was used 100 years ago to treat epilepsy, sometimes worked, sometimes didnt, pro it may work without taking medications cons may not work without any side effects
I have something similar to the one born without a uterus. I was born without a cervix and we had to remove my uterus because when I'd get my period it had nowhere to go and I'd reabsorb it. Super painful. I had to wait a year after the initial exploratory laparoscopy for them to remove it since they wanted me to wait till I was at least 25 (in Utah). My OB/GYN is amazing and managed to get me a hysterectomy at 19 years old.
Why on earth would you need to wait until you're 25?? I hope it's for anatomical reasons and not some weird patriarchal bullshit. I can't imagine you'd be having a standard pregnancy without a cervix, if you were able to carry at all. Anyway, I'm glad you were able to get the hysterectomy! And if you want to be a mother I hope you're able to find a way to do so!
@@yaboicolleen Yeah no I think it's usually for sexist/transphobic reasons. A lot of the guidelines when it comes to this sort of thing tend to be transphobic in nature, and even non-trans people who need them get caught in the crossfire.
@@yaboicolleen You have to wait certain amounts of time for sterilization by law or insurance, depending on state. I can imagine that even a needed hysterectomy would have red tape, esp for someone still in their teens. Like she's not gonna fckn grow it back, but 🤦♀
My daughter had myelomeningocele Spina Bifida with type II Chiari malformation, we ended up getting into a group here in the Midwest that preformed Open fetal surgery which involved basically removing her from my wife still attached at the umbilical cord, patching her back, and then returning her inside my wife and closing her back up. She then held her to 36 weeks where she was c-sectioned out to make sure there was no chance of labor, within the first week we saw a 99% reversal of the Chiari type II malformation , think stewie griffin from family guy football shaped head before to almost normal with some hydrocephalus, she ended up getting a shunt at 6 months, and was able to wiggle her toes. She is now almost 7 uses a wheel chair for long distances but is still strengthening her leg muscles and can walk quite a bit of the way with just a walker!
Oh my goodness I'm an adult with this but it didn't present at birth more around puberty... had surgery on my neck in 2012 and got detetherthered as well as treated with a shunt for the hydrocephalus, I've had several of those over the years. In use a chair now due to a stroke after aquiring sepsis in 2017. But Im doing great and I love life and my family just find your people and keep at it!
My grandma has 2 uterus, when she wanted to have kids, most of them died, mostly during the pregnancy. So seeing that nowadays they're trying to, kind of solve matters like this, it's amazing to me
The face transplant one almost made me cry. Not only did it say the wound was self inflicted but there will always be those people who judge others and probably talk about her behind her back and stuff. I’m glad she’s alive too and I hope she lives happily for as long as possible.
I had gastric bypass surgery in 2007 the surgery was when they just started doing it via laparoscopic. I was 590lb and now I am 200 . I am 100% sure it saved my life. I have NEVER regretted it.
I was shocked to see the animation of basically the entrance of the stomach being connected to the exit of it.. where is the food suppose to sit to digest before going to the intestines? >.>
@@Veganerd_ the stomach is SIGNIFICANTLY shrunk, but not totally removed. it prevents patients from being able to eat much of anything for the first months of recovery
@@Veganerd_ your food is also digested as it passes through the intestines, all it does, as the others said, is reduce the capacity, kinda forcing your brain/body to recognize it can't feed as much as it used to. the remaining tiny stomach still has all of its necessary systems
Barring genuine medical necessity, our short kings deserve to be loved exactly as they are. The guy in the first case is already a drop-dead stunner. Goodness knows I've gotten absolutely bowled over by a guy my height or less, that just radiated charisma. CONCENTRATED KINGS FTW
Thank you! I am a 5’7 guy and I couldn’t imagine putting myself through such an agonizing recovery process just to be a little taller. If it really helps him that’s cool, I just don’t understand the desire to go through that
@@Alex-dt9lnWHAAA 5'7 is a very good height for men. Do women in the west not like that?!?! Any man above 5'3 is desirable in my country even tho we have plenty who'd be above 5'7.
@@zennaonthezThe average male height in the USA is around 5'10" to 5'11", average female height is around 5'5". We're bombarded from a young age with the idea of tall, strong, handsome, authoritative men. Me, I'm a female just over 5'6", and my male fiancee is 5'3". People ignore him, walk into him like he's not even there, he gets devalued and passed over all the time. It's BS.
@@bluelagoon1980 damn that's really sad, why does west put so much stress on physical appearance when what actually matters is being a decent human being.
I'm surprised none of McKay McKinnon's surgeries were in this video. You should definitely cover him in the future. He's a surgeon who removes giant tumors that weigh hundreds of pounds. He was most known for removing a tumor the size of a bean bag chair from a woman named Lory Hugawin on a Discovery Health special, like 20 or so years ago. After that, they did another special, where he traveled to Romania to remove another similar tumor from another woman. Since then, he's traveled to several other countries to remove even bigger tumors from even more people. You wouldn't even believe the surgeries he does are possible! The dude's a hero!
It's heartbreaking that so many people are out there living untreated for so long that they develop such massive tumors. One would hope the tumor would have been removed right when it first developed, not left to grow for years and years, slowly disabling them until they are completely incapacitated. It breaks my heart knowing so many people are living like that.
@@orchdork775 I don't know about the others, but with Lori Hugawin, they didn't remove it when it was smaller because all the doctors she saw up until that point thought the tumor was attached to her spinal cord. They thought they couldn't remove it without paralyzing her. And her tumor didn't grow very much for most of her life, anyway. It wasn't until she had to have radiation or something, for an unrelated cancer, that it suddenly got so big in like, one year.
My twin was the first in Norway to do the leg lengthening thing. It was done as a part of two other major surgeries on his hips, legs and soft tissue. He had hip dysplasia fixed, lengthening of the legs, his legs were rotated by numerous degrees as his knees always crashed when he walked, and he had several things done to his muscles and tendons to lengthen them and ease the tension on his ankles and knees. He gained about 10-11 cm of height. He was born with cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus and a whole host of other things and all of the stuff I mentioned was done in one surgery when we were 13. It took three years from the surgery day until he could walk unassisted again. The whole process lasted around 5 years from the discussions to the planning, researching, travelling out of the country to do prep work, analyse how he moved and walked etc. Those analyses was repeated after the surgery once he was walking unassisted again. He was the first patient in Norway to get this done. He was really short due to growth stunting after all of his brain surgeries. He's still a head shorter than me, and Im 158cm/5'2.
Was he able to talk or communicate in any way at the time he got the surgergy? It just sounds like it would be so horrible and scary to go through such a painful and traumatic surgery without being able to communicate when you are in pain or that you are scared or even really understand what is happening and why. I hope it wasn't like that for him. I just can't imagine looking down and seeing those braces drilled into the bones in my legs, not knowing why and not having any way of communicating my horror and fear. Anyways, how is he doing now after all of those surgeries? I hope they were able to increase his quality of life and that he alright!
@@orchdork775 Yeah he is verbal. He has dyspraxia if I didnt mention that so sometimes he mixes some words here and there. He was fully able to understand the hows, whys and everything. He has an insane tolerance for pain, but he always made it known if he needed pain management. But yeah, Im not sure how much of it my parents would have let him go through if he wasnt able to understand or let us know about pain etc. He has had a much easier time walking since then, but when he gets tired he tends to revert to standkng with his knees bent to almost the angle they had before the surgery. He thinks its the most annoying thing when I remind him to stretch his legs. He had a pretty big benefit from it after. Especially from his knees. Before the surgery he would always smash his knees into eachother when he walked. They were prone to dislocating and they were always bruised and swollen from the constant smashing together. That has not been an issue since then. Sadly, he hasnt been able to see a physiotherapist for a while, to strengthen his legs, which has seen a bit of a decline since he lost his physio. It's not easy to find a physical therapist who understands the complex issues he has.
I've been home recovering from spine surgery myself for the last 2 months. I was lucky that everything went perfect, because... knowing youre risking paralysis is quite stressful. But the damage done to my spine from an infection really made it to where I had no choice.
@@morganschiller2288 Oh ya. There was someone there monitoring for the whole thing. He introduced himself beforehand. So, yes... I did have one. 10 hours and the only bump in the road was how much blood I lost. Took 7 units to get my hemoglobin back up.
I love how Dr. Mike is so calm and composed watching medically accurate content vs how enraged and impassioned he is while watching medical dramas like House 😂
Well yeah, these are real stories with real people, not actors. On the other hand, those shows are terribly inaccurate with literally everything. They also tend to teach people things that either just not true or is dangerous.
Here in Brazil we had a program made by the government that provides those expensive medications to the ones who need them. We have to provide lots of documents and exams to show you need it and you're apt to take 'em and they provide it for you. Every three months you need new documentation provided by your doc to show you still need it. It saved so many people and improved the lives of so many others like myself. It's really beneficial.
The most beautiful part of Katie receiving that exact transplant is that Katie’s own skull shape is quite similar to the donors mother. It was an excellent match. I wish I could donate my organs and tissues when I die, but I can’t. I carry some quite bad genes and have multiple rare diagnoses that effect every organ, including the vascular system. So literally nothing except maybe a few select bits of my skin is usable. (Not even my bones- I have bone density issues and a genetic bone tumor.)
I had bariatric surgery in January. My A1C this month was 5.4. my fasting glucose was 108. I have lost 80 lbs since September. It has definitely been a game-changer. And I'm not someone who sat around and ate all day. I have psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as a myriad of back issues that were inherited from both parents. I can stand up straight, no longer need a cane and I'm not in constant pain when standing. My Tremfya is $12k per dose.
Just want to give a huge shoutout to MD Anderson, and everything they do. They gave us 4 and a half more good years with my stepmother, after putting her into remission for what was supposed to be incurable lung cancer 7 years earlier. They're currently working with my dad as well, and while it has been so difficult, their staff and doctors are amazing, kind, empathetic, and thorough. Not to mention the talented doctors and surgeons that are doing groundbreaking work. It's a place you never want to be, but at the same time, it's the best place to be for the situation.
My favorite part of him saying “I play metal, I don’t know that many acoustic songs,” was that moments before he said it I went, “what would I play during this, I play metal, I don’t really know much acoustic songs.”
I was so excited to learn about the uterine transplant studies. I'm too overweight to participate but I'm working on it. I genuinely used to feel guilty because I (for several reasons) don't want to have kids but so many people do and can't. I hope someday I can give someone that gift.
Personally I think a lot of people actually don’t have the skills to be good parents, just “good enough” which arguably isn’t good enough. Many mental and physical chronic health issues are linked to early childhood trauma and toxic family systems. In fact, I believe most families have at least some level of toxicity which wouldn’t be so bad except not everyone wants to admit it and do therapy. It’s also very true that our planet can’t sustain much more of a human population - we have gone from 1 billion to 8 billion in only 200 years. How long until we consume ourselves into oblivion? What suffering are we causing by making more of us? We are an exponential function and despite what society says about being child free, it’s actually a very ethical choice. People should reproduce sparingly and only when they have gone through a lot to decide it kids are right for them - parenting classes, babysitting, etc.
I'm in the I don't want kids group too BUT I would love to be pregnant just to see what it's like so I thought about being a surrogate but from what I read you need to have a successful pregnancy first which I understand
Me too! I don't want (or even like all that much) children, and I absolutely DO NOT want to get pregnant, here I am just like PLEASE, TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME also not having periods anymore would be a huge plus
The conjoined twin thing blew my mind, to be joined in possibly the most awkward place (imagine operating within the very fine margin between two childs brains) and both surviving is crazy.
thank you dr. mike for your every video you put out. You have forever bettered my doctor patient relationship, you have forever eased my anxiety about my health & you have made me very confident in the choices i make for my health. I can’t describe how grateful i am that you are here on youtube explaining things honestly and plainly. your channel means so much to me so thank you again.
I have Perthes disease which caused a difference in the length of my legs. It’s slight, so I decided against it, but leg lengthening surgery was brought up. I’m also a 5’3 male, which is shorter than the man that got the surgery. Both things considered, I still have no idea why he decided to go through with it
I have one son that is 5’5. I am 5’7. He grew up hating being short. But now he is happy with who he is. I have always told him -Dynamite comes in small packages!! 😎🌟. His brothers are not much taller 5’7 and 5’8. Their Dad is 5’6.
Shame is very powerful and can cause people to become so humiliated and desperate that just existing in their body feels like torture. It feels like you are a disgusting, ugly person who is worthless and no one will ever find you desirable. It feels like your whole world is crashing down around you whenever you remember what you look like, and the reality that you will spend the rest of your in your body and that your appearance will only get worse as time goes on makes you feel such intense psychological pain that you have to pretend in your mind that you look different than you do in real life, or convince yourself that one day you will get enough money to afford plastic surgery, because the pain is too much to bare. A large percentage of the population in the U.S. will often go on horrible, unhealthy diets to try and lose weight that have them only drinking juice that causes them to have diahrrea for weeks, because that gets rid of water weight. I mean, that is a super common thing that you will come across on tiktok, where someone is selling some special tea or advertising some crazy diet... it's and normalized. That is on the mild end, because there are even people who attempt self surgery because they are so desperate. I came across a website/forum a long time about how to do medical procedures on yourself, and in my regrettable curiously I read a post from a woman who shared that she literally cut her own labia shorter with a razor blade because of how ashamed she was by its length. She even said she was glad she did it, and there were tons of people in the replies asking her details of how she did it, because they also wanted to cut off their labia. So yea, that's how bad shame can get. It will make you destroy yourself if you aren't careful, just like it made that guy spend almost 100k on a horribly painful, traumatic surgery.
I had a surgery that left one of my legs partially paralysed, although I ended up getting most of the use back in my leg, it was a crazy feeling to say that I took walking for granted. I feel we think of walking as a given and it’s such an easy thing to take for granted. I really feel for these people, because I can only imagine what they’re going through!
14:36 I was born three months early and really really sick and my heart was barely working, doctors didn't think I would make it due to my heart and me being so weak to bacteria and disease. I'm turning 23 in March ❤
Leg lengthening is actually used more on patients with dwarfism. Their limbs will actually bow outwards given time and the only way to correct this is a metal rod down the limb while creating several breaks for the bone to reform. It takes over a year to accomplish and it is not easy to do. Many dwarves will do the surgery around age 16 as the growth plate starts to fuse.
Doctor mike looks tired in this video…really appreciate the effort of posting videos despite all the busy work he’s probably got and that with lots of information in every single one of them ❤ .
Someone I went to high school with is currently in the hospital recovering from septic shock caused by contracting strep A after a minor surgery for a slipped disc and as a result of their septic shock (which they almost died from) they ended up needing both of their hands and feet amputated from the lack of oxygen to them causing the tissue to die and become infected. So crazy/scary and life changing, especially to a mother of two younger children, but at least they survived, even though it’s a very difficult road ahead.
I was just teaching correlation vs causation to my grade 11 math IB students about 2 weeks ago. Most of them want to be doctors, so it's really interesting to see they will actually use the things we talk about in class in their fields 😊
As a short person, I’m maybe a little insulted by people who want to go through extreme surgery to be 2” taller. Two inches would not even get me to average! I’ve been through an incredibly painful surgery to restore my humerus, and I would never close that kind of pain!
Dudes are sometimes discriminated against by others because traditionally we are supposed to be dominant, and being short isn’t seen as dominant. Not saying it’s right, but it can cause some deep seated insecurity. Being 5’6” and a guy I can tell you it’s definitely a thing, since I was bullied for my height.
I understand where you're coming from. But you have to wonder why a guy is willing to go through that pain anyway.... I am sure others have told you this, but life as a short guy is certainly not a cake walk.
That is so sad. I’d never reject a guy that was under 6’z. My ex was 5’5 and it made 0 difference to me. The only reason why he was a loser is he cheated on me. Had two babies ( not mine) and gave up marriage and the benefits of it like the hospital I worked at paid it’s insurance at 100%. Becuase I couldn’t “perform” how he wanted me to. He was resentful I didn’t want to have relations 1 week after an ACDF. Or a week out of hardware removal. Its not just size. I’d date a hobbit if they were a real man
Being a man and short is something you can't experience. Your take on this situation can't be compared to the man's feelings on this anymore than you should feel bad for him because he can't get pregnant. Men are ostracized, shamed or at the very least, made fun of throughout school. Even Tom Cruise still has issues and I think he made it socially in this world.
This was eye-opening, especially the uterus transplant because I didn’t know you could be born without one and that there was a uterus transplant program. How awesome! ❤❤
@@MollyL5 Agh, I wish I was born without one too, but I wish you the best in whatever you want. Wish I could give you mine even. Have a wonderful day, night, or everything!
My husband has ankylosing spondylitis and we are so lucky that we live in a country that the medications are available and aren’t too expensive. Thank you for sharing Dr Mike ❤️
4:34 As a musician, who constantly has to hear the words "talent" and music coming from the "heart". I thank you and respect you to an even higher level. Thank you so much for saying this and being clear that it's all in the brain.
I had a patient down in Rome GA I worked on. She was a 80 something year old. Sweet as sugar. Poor chick had such severe kyphosis she was bent like a C. She had a previous thoracic fusion and over time her vertebrae broke the rods and screws. Well anyway they wound up fusing T3 down to S1 and you could literally see her flatten out as the surgery went on. It was so drastic. I had to ask my oversight if I could readjust her baselines because her condition improved dramatically. I wonder how she’s doing now. Hell I wish I knew how all my patients were doing. I have so many I’d love to call.
Wow, I'm so glad Dr. Mike touched on leg length discrepancies. I've never heard it talked about before outside my doctor's office (my personal case is called femoral dysplasia) and I appreciate some light being shone on it. Thank you, Dr. Mike. You made my day 😊
My friend growing up had leg length issues. She was born with hip dysplasia I believe. She basically had no hip sockets. In high school she had a surgery to stop the growth of the longer leg. Kinda wild. It worked but she still limps due to the hip issues.
@@m_d1905 yes! I was in a similar boat, except I was born with basically no femur in my left leg. I had many surgeries starting in elementary all the way up to high school (had many complications) to lengthen my left/stunt the growth in my right, while the main issue is fixed I still have some minor leg pain, and some narly scars that I love. It's wild what they're able to fix/do!
Watching these videos, I swear I'm so shook and amazed (in the best ways) about how far humans are able to take medicine. Like, I never knew something like a face transplant could even be performed, although I know it's rare... but it was still performed. It just boggles my brain the things humans are able to do in the medical field. Keep up the work Dr. Mike!
So when i was pregnant one of the thing's i asked is how do you know when something is wrong. He said the main is the heart beat.. then when they did an ultrasound if the area around the baby needed to be clear. I had the perfect doctor wasnt just nice but he took the time to explain everything and i was always at ease.
Both my brother and I have AS. Same as the folded guy. I remained married through out my life, so thus used my husband’s insurance. My brother’s wife left him, so he struggled to keep up his insurance. I got the benefit of biologics. He did not. Long story short, I went on to start a successful business that employed 50 people. My brother ended up crippled and on the public dole all his life. This is how the USA leaps over the dollars to pick up the pennies. Health care for all!
Thank you for talking about scoliosis. A lot of people don't talk about it, especially in adulthood I've known people with surgeries that have had to have multiple ones throughout their lives and some that have the both the bones and the rods in their back and screws are moving as they're aging which is kind of scary. Mine went in my thoracic area and it's pretty significant and it does look like a deformity unfortunately and it does kind of affect me, but I am terrified. Back surgery because it is not come very far since I was a little girl.
My mom has ankylosing spondilitis and she still has to cook and clean. I help her to clean but I can't cook, her back started to arch and she had surgery and she is happy now, she is still sore but say better than her state before. Love you mom!
Dr. Mike, you should do a video about connective tissue disorders. The population of people with connective tissue disorders is grossly underestimated as research and awareness is showing. A lot of the issues in this video are related to connective tissue disorders, as well as neurodivergence, autoimmune disorders, and GI problems. Unfortunately many have been forced into eating disorder clinics when they're actually experiencing gastroparesis.
As a fellow leg length discrepancy sufferer, I had that leg lengthening back in October 2017 and had the rod out in October 2018. During that time, I had to do physical therapy to regain my ability to walk and do things normally. Before I had the surgery, I was struggling to walk normally since my right hip/shoulder was higher than my left hip/shoulder and my lower back was curved/slanted to the left side( the curve is still there and it get irritated by bending over too much). It was noticed when I were little since I was growing at that time and it was caused by a fracture that I had when I was a baby. A nurse turned me over to change my diaper and fractured my left leg since my body were fragile after being born premature at 28 weeks and the leg swelled up because of a infection that wasn’t noticed by a doctor until 2 days later. The doctor gave me medication to help the infection go away but it wasn’t working (it got rid of my full hearing in my right ear and partially hearing in my left ear and I was born deaf too since it have been determined by genetics testing for the connexin 26 gene) and I had the surgery to remove part of my leg and ankle bone at a month of age. In June 2020, I had the ankle fusion to stabilize my ankle due to arthritis and achilles tendon lengthening to length my Achilles tendon. Now, I am displeased and disappointed that people are doing the leg lengthening surgery to grow unnaturally. 😮🙎♀️😠
I would love to see a video about abnormal medical results. Like for instance, at 20 years old I had to fight my doctor for 3 months to finally be tested and diagnosed with avascular necrosis. Was told it was almost impossible that someone my age has it. Limped like Quasimodo for 6 months before I taught myself how to walk again, absolutely no help from my doctor or specialist. No therapy, just pain and me being determined to walk again.
I watched the full doctumentary on the "folded man" and it was incredible and made me go through a range of emotions: sadness to see a person suffering, happiness to see that all the surgeries went well and gave him a better quality of life, love for his mother who placed her life on hold to care for him and gratefulness for all the things in life that i have taken granted for such as even sitting upright. Bless his soul and i hope he and his mother live a happy life .
I find people with these type of conditions almost inspiring, we take our body for granted for just simple things like moving a finger or our toes, it's nice to see that they get there treatment and life changing surgeries to live a normal life
Something about this channel... It's really nice to hear a Dr. speak about medicine who is not burned out from the Healthcare System in the US. I can tell that Dr. Mike genuinely loves caring for people and the continuing education and commitment that this requires. He would be a fun Dr to work with because I suspect his joy in practice and his zest for education is infectious.
I love that the man getting the height surgery is just completely sure that he lives up to 100. "I got like 70 years left on this planet" - like bro, consider yourself lucky, when you get 50 more.
15:43 the most savage thing I ever heard Dr Mike say ‘She’s biased though cause she looks like her family member’. I can’t tell if he was being brutally honest or making a joke. Ahaha awkward.
Exactly, there’s not much point to be tall but yet the society acts like it’s an essential. Why should we do something that doesn’t benefit the society and still get judged at last? What reward do we get at last for meeting the satisfying height? Nothing.
I’m 37 and have had five back surgeries that haven’t helped, and nerve damage in my legs that make them constantly burn! In 2005, I had a double disc replacement, the first in St. Louis, but those discs ended up moving so I had to have them fused then caged in 2011. Now I have spinal stenosis and a couple more bulged/herniated discs in my mid/upper back. I’ve tried two different spinal cord stims, but those put me in more pain than they helped. Now it’s just a matter of giving me as much relief as possible, however, bc of the opioid epidemic, my pain meds have been cut by over half. It took a few weeks to get used to the new dosages, but the pain isn’t as controlled as it was even 6 months ago. I went to the same pain management doctor from when I was 16 to 35, and he ended up getting ill at a young age, so he had to close his practice. The doctor that I had gone to for a year, told me that if I didn’t do his $375/month diet plan, Optavia, then he would stop prescribing my pain meds. I told him I couldn’t afford it, and he told me that I could also sell Optavia and get paid for it. I lost maybe 30 pounds on my own, but it was never good enough. I think every month, I left his office in tears, and finally I couldn’t deal with him anymore. The pain management doctor I’m going to now is the one who decreased my pain meds, but it’s better than going to the other doctor.
I’m 38 and have had three fusions L4-S1 and C6,7 and a cdr at c5/6 and lami’s at L3-S1. I started at 23 from a work injury. My legs burn on occasion it used to be so bad I was falling down the stairs in my house and falling out of bed, not to mention pissing myself constantly. I was always prescribed relafen. They tried for 15 years now to keep pushing Lyrica on me and I eventually put it in my EMR’s Im allergic to it. My last PM doc tryed to force am SCS on me and I told him to jump off a cliff. My patients that have had them say they only work for maybe a year or two at most. I have alot of folks that have them removed. CDR’s or LDR’s? I know MO, TX and AZ have the best spine centers and the best spine outcomes. I want a LDR at L3/4 so bad!
@@morganschiller2288 I’m sorry that you’re going through all of this as well. I was a few weeks shy of my 17th bday when my back went out while I was in the shower, picking up my shampoo bottle…I have to laugh at that bc I’d cry otherwise. First surgery was a discectomy in 2004, when that didn’t work, that’s when I had the double disc replacement. My titanium discs are at levels L4-L5, L5-S1, and I also have both sides of my si joints fused, which didn’t help as much as I thought it would! I take Gabapentin for my neuropathy bc I am allergic to Lyrica, and also take Xtampza ER 9mg twice a day and Oxycodone IR 5 mg. I used to take 36 mg of the Xtampza twice a day, but I didn’t like that dosage, so I told the doctor I wanted to try to get to the lowest dose. I was taking 10mg of the Oxycodone IR, but the new pain management doc didn’t like that dose, so he switched it to 5mg. Took several weeks for my body to adjust to it, which wasn’t fun at all, but I’m proud of myself that I’ve done it! I did have a few years pain free a year after the double disc replacement. I was able to go out with friends and loved it up. A friend of mine picked me up and when kind of dropped me when he was putting me down. He’s like 6’7” (hopefully I typed that right) and I’m only 5’2” so it was quite a drop, but that’s when I felt a lot of movement in my spine where I knew something bad happened. I didn’t think the titanium discs would move, but they did, and pressed up against my spinal cord causing the nerve damage. I went to a neurosurgeon a couple months ago, and he said that I have Failed Back Surgery Syndrome, so there’s not much that I can do. I’ll get injections, which help for a little bit, but nothing lasts long term. I hope that you get relief and that a disc replacement surgery could help you. I always hate when I hear of others pain, especially when they’re young like us! I’m blessed in a way, to have a friend with scoliosis, so she knows how I feel. When you haven’t had our kind of pain, it’s hard to understand it! I’ll keep you in my prayers!
The short person dysphoria reads as a specifically men’s mental health thing. As a tall woman, shorter men get aggressive with me out of the blue, and men in career or sport spaces get VERY competitive with me. Height is treated as masculine thing. I’m really curious how they looked at tall women in that study. And what height of tallness is benefit or “too much”. Also, when I lived in Japan, my height intimated and even terrified people (I’m 6ft). I was treated VERY differently in comparison to my friends and siblings. I’m not saying anything to discredit the experience of shorter folks. I just feel it stems from a social masculinity issue. But it’s been weird how romanticized/sexualized my height is when in reality height comes with a lot of negatives (especially if you are a racial or sexual minority). Most men are turned off by tall women (and constantly tell you about it unwarranted), and men that are into it have weird domanatrix dom women assumptions with height. 😅 my current partner is a closer to my height (still shorter), and he also sees negatives (like men trying to prove themselves by picking a fight with him because he’s taller and muscular…. My partner is not that kind of person).
It's somewhat comforting to know that there's surgical procedures to treat scoliosis. Mine has gotten to the point where I have times I can barely move. Even sitting and lying down makes my back hurt. Lifting a jug of milk will throw out my back. I tried to move my guitar a short distance yesterday. It was hours before I could really move again. What's really frustrating is having to fight through the pain to be a caregiver to a relative. I have to hide the pain from them so they don't feel guilty, which results (probably unintentionally) extreme guilt trips in return. This leads to a vicious emotional cycle for me. I'd love for this to end.
I've had one surgery and the recovery was so rough that I'm pretty sure I'd rather die than have another surgery, and people out here having a huge surgery just because they're a little short (which he wasn't really that short to begin with.) I can't freaking imagine.
I was thinking the same. I've had a lot of surgeries unfortunately, all of them necessary, but if I could have lived my whole life not needing them I'd have been perfectly happy. I can't understand putting myself through that kind of trauma voluntarily, especially because 5'7 really isn't all that short. A lot of guys on the shorter side do end up having complexes like this though simply because society makes them feel like they're somehow worth less. Personally speaking, I'm a 6'0 woman and I never cared about a guy's height, but rather how he treated me. 🤷♀️
Honestly I used to have a problem with my height, I was constantly bullied for it, even from my own family. Over the last 6 months though I've learned to accept and love myself. Mostly because I realized I never had any issues with my height, for some reason everyone else does. I couldn't fathom spending money and putting myself through that much pain just to be a little bit taller.
2:14 I think my dad had to have that, can't remember the reason why. He told me, a few times I think, that because of the surgery, he has to throw up a certain way or else he could choke on his own vomit.
Shout out to all the doctors and surgeons who were able to pull these surgeries off! Don’t know what we would do without you all! Doctor Mike could you please do a reaction video to the Walking Dead’s medical scenes?! Start with the first episode and then I will start recommending more episodes!!!!
My father was born with one leg six inches shorter then the other sadly this oparation was not an option back then the only thing that helps is a giant platform boot (we all lovingly call the spice girl boot) and heavy pain killers. Seeing this blew my mind I'm glad people with this now have a chance to live comfortabley. But having a dad that gets taller when he gets mad is pretty cool too. 😅 (he stands on his good leg to get in my face) Love you dad, keep on hobbling ❤
This video honestly brought tears to my eyes... I am so moved by modern medicine and the miracles these patients receive. The infant surgery on tumor in utero is insane.
