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Dr. Cobble Q&A From March 18th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Do we have doctor Cobble on the line.
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  Speaker 2: We do, do it.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, doctor Cobbyle, Good morning. It's doctor Michael Cobble.
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  Speaker 1: He's here to answer any questions that you might have
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  Speaker 1: medical questions. He's also somewhat of an authority on law
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  Speaker 1: and fertilizing. If you he is, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: just make that up. I like to know that I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it.
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  Speaker 2: He's a smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Cobble can answer questions about give you a general
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  Speaker 1: idea of what to do about something that ails. You
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  Speaker 1: just call us. If something hurts you what you know
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  Speaker 1: you can answer it.
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  Speaker 2: I think Ganis should go first.
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  Speaker 3: Oh hi, doctor Cobble, good morning. I have a little
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  Speaker 3: tummy thing going on. I feel I feel nauseated and
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  Speaker 3: like I want to go to bed and not feeling great.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wondering if there's is there something going around that
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  Speaker 3: you've seen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's always something going on, and I guess it
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  Speaker 4: just depends on if you're having more serious symptoms with it,
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  Speaker 4: if you are probably ought to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's I mean, it's serious.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't I mean so so, But the question
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  Speaker 1: became this morning, doctor cobble. Uh When when should you
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  Speaker 1: stay home and not infect other people if you're sick?
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  Speaker 1: When so feel's worried? So my worry is I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: certainly concerned about Gina, but I'm more concerned about myself.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think if you're washing your hands and after
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  Speaker 4: you use the bathroom and not touching your face, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think you're super contagious to other people, even if
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  Speaker 4: it's a gastric infection or a viral astronerritis. I think
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  Speaker 4: where I get worried with stomach things would be severe
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  Speaker 4: abdominal pain, throwing out very fifteen minutes, black, bloody bowel movements,
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  Speaker 4: those kinds of things, I be worried.
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  Speaker 1: No bloody, no bloo. Okay, I'm just I'm just off.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: This is my next question because I just saw Gena
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  Speaker 2: apply hand sanitizer. Does that stuff ever go bad? Because
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  Speaker 2: this has been here for.
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  Speaker 4: A while, Well, I think it might go bad if
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  Speaker 4: it's more than five years old, or it's been in
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  Speaker 4: the sunshine and getting cooked all the time.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I'll sere you go. You gotta get some
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  Speaker 2: fresh in here, Gina, do you.
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  Speaker 1: Have I'm surprised it's been here that long that she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't she put it on like six times a day.
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  Speaker 3: I kept this one because it's it was from COVID.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when five Wives Vodka made their vodka hands hands.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sure that's what it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's still around at the office.
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  Speaker 1: Got sanitizing her hands with vodka.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a text question. When I take out my
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  Speaker 2: corrective lens, it still feels like I have it in
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  Speaker 2: my eye. Why is that weird?
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  Speaker 4: Well, probably have a dry eye. Maybe I maybe you
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  Speaker 4: need to leave the kit is a little lubricating eye
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  Speaker 4: drops have to do that, But it's possible the nerves
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  Speaker 4: and the cornea just have, you know, have that sensation
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  Speaker 4: that there's something still on them.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Here's another text question. Is there a treatment for itchy
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  Speaker 2: ear canals from allergies?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you can use their liquid steroids that are
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  Speaker 4: prescription or maybe topical hydrocortisone, or maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of baby oil one of those things with a Q
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  Speaker 4: tip usually will help that sevaric dermatitis that you're experiencing.
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  Speaker 1: Is the over and the over the counter stuff that
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  Speaker 1: chordate or whatever that might do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's easy. That's what I'd start with
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  Speaker 4: If that doesn't work, you can go with something stronger.
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  Speaker 4: But typically after using that two or three days, it'll
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  Speaker 4: help cloth.
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  Speaker 1: A bit, Doctor Cobble does. So they've reversed the the
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  Speaker 1: vaccine recommend vaccine recommends that Kennedy made for kids. But
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  Speaker 1: the health experts are saying the damage is probably already
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  Speaker 1: done anyway, that people have become too overconcerned about vaccinations.
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  Speaker 4: Did you want me to comment on that or you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should just sit here and be quiet
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  Speaker 1: for a minute.
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  Speaker 4: We're all praying right now. Yeah, I mean, and kind
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  Speaker 4: of dumbfounded by the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you find that? I mean, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you do you have people with young kids in your
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  Speaker 1: practice or do they? Are they expressing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: concern about vaccination.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have a big pediatric practice anymore. But
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  Speaker 4: I just think I understand the personal choice. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's wonderful. I think we had personal choice not to
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  Speaker 4: wear seat belts, and if we had personal choice not
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  Speaker 4: to follow the speed limit, then you know, we could
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  Speaker 4: do anything we want to do. But the data is
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  Speaker 4: very strong in the American Academy Family practic It's in
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  Speaker 4: the American Academy of Pediatrics. I'll say the children in
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  Speaker 4: the community are healthier if people follow the vaccine recommendations
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  Speaker 4: that have been in place for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So do it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have first not choice with the seat belt
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  Speaker 2: or the speeding thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the point you. Oh, yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 1: people are healthy. I don't see any phone calls. No,
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  Speaker 1: nobody seems. Nobody seems to be having any medical problems
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  Speaker 1: at all, So which is a good thing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose I don't need a doctor. I'm fine.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. We've got a couple of uh text text
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  Speaker 2: questions here. Let's see, doc, I've been weight training for
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  Speaker 2: the last eight months and I have developed a hernia.
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  Speaker 2: No pain, it doesn't bother me. I'm wondering if I
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  Speaker 2: can continue to wait train or if I need to stop.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess it depends where the hernia is. If
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  Speaker 4: it's a ventral hernia, which is in the central abdomen,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't think anything you do is going to
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  Speaker 4: change that. If it's an england or hernia, you run
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  Speaker 4: the rare risk of that getting incarcerated or strangulated. Are blocked,
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  Speaker 4: but you'd know that right away, because you'd get severe
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  Speaker 4: abdominal pain and be throwing up. I have people who
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  Speaker 4: have lived with hernias for years before they get them fixed.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it's not unreasonable to see a surgeon
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  Speaker 4: and just get into their system, and then if you
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  Speaker 4: do decide when it's convenient for you to get it fixed,
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  Speaker 4: then it gets taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of get worse, don't they. I mean they'll because,
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  Speaker 1: oh they might.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they may get bigger, But I think for
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  Speaker 4: most of us were born with that weakness of the
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  Speaker 4: England old ligament. If that's where it's at, and the
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  Speaker 4: hernia is going to happen sooner or later, so I
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  Speaker 4: think certainly doing weightlifting may have precipitated that or injured
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  Speaker 4: it further. But I don't think he's going to do
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  Speaker 4: more damage. He or she whoever sent it in. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think they're going to do more damage, but it's
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  Speaker 4: probably not going to get better on its own.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Diego, Hello, Diego, Good morning, Diego.
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  Speaker 1: What's your question?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, good morning? Quick question is I was advised, well,
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  Speaker 5: my wife and I were advised because of some we
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  Speaker 5: have to attend this treatment center that we should get
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  Speaker 5: a booster for the measles vaccine just because they've seen some.
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  Speaker 5: So the question is is there an advantage if you've
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  Speaker 5: already been vaccinated when you were a kid, but be
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  Speaker 5: born before eighty nine. You know your thoughts on.
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  Speaker 1: That, well.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you're vaccinated for measles, you should be immune.
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  Speaker 4: You can do antibody testing to see if your immunity
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  Speaker 4: still exists. I think if you have insurance getting the
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  Speaker 4: measles vaccines and easy at the booster is covered by insurance.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy to do. So you really have three options.
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  Speaker 4: If you've been vaccinated, you're probably in me and if
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  Speaker 4: you're questioning that, you can get antibodies, but insurance usually
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  Speaker 4: won't pay for that, but you can get antibody testing
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  Speaker 4: to see if you have immunity or the simple things.
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  Speaker 4: Just go get into their vaccine recommending.
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  Speaker 1: It won't hurt you, won't hurt you to get another
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  Speaker 1: won't exactly, So do it.
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  Speaker 4: Great question now, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Don't listen to Joe Rogan or Rob Schneider. All right, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, doctor Kennedys.
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  Speaker 2: Go to Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Chris, what's your question for doctor Cobble?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Yeah, sorry, I have a little cold still. So
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  Speaker 6: my mom recently had a stroke about a month ago
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  Speaker 6: in January, and now she's having like hallucinations and she's
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  Speaker 6: seen things, and she's seen so many doctors. We thought
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  Speaker 6: it might be a UTI because I know that happens
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  Speaker 6: with older people. But I don't know what kind of
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  Speaker 6: doctor to see now.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm wow, seem like.
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  Speaker 6: Neurologist her, you know, general whatever doctor. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 6: so many doctors anyway, So she doesn't have a UTI,
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  Speaker 6: but I don't know what's the next step.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, this is a tough question, Chris, because you
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  Speaker 4: know your mom is probably older and had a stroke
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  Speaker 4: and there's going to be injury of the brain and
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  Speaker 4: the electrical conduction there. I think if they've ruled out
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  Speaker 4: other metabolic things like thyroid and B twelve and vitamin
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  Speaker 4: D and diabetes and the kidney infection those types of things,
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  Speaker 4: I think if the neurologist is not willing, usually this
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  Speaker 4: is their wheelhouse. I mean, if the neurologists may have
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  Speaker 4: a neuropsych or a psychiatrist that works with them or
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  Speaker 4: they know, but she may need to be put on
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  Speaker 4: a little anti convulsant lotos that have alprayed or carbon
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  Speaker 4: mazepine which have been shown to reduce hallucinations, or a
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  Speaker 4: mood stabilizer of some kind to reduce hallucinations, and you
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  Speaker 4: know the other things. Just her background, mood history, she's
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  Speaker 4: ever had a history of depression or anxiety or mood problems,
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  Speaker 4: she could be more prone to this post stroke neurologic issue.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's correctable that. I think i'd push hard
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  Speaker 4: with the neurologist or a neuropsych or the neural psychiatrist
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  Speaker 4: that the neurologist knows there you go. Definitely, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think she'll get better.
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  Speaker 6: Hard to get in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they've got to get her on a
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  Speaker 4: mood stabilizer of some kind, either anikin ball center, an
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  Speaker 4: antipsychotic that that that that will stop that hallucinatory issue.
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  Speaker 1: And you can maybe you can convince them that she's
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  Speaker 1: she might be a danger to herself or others if
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  Speaker 1: she's not seen, and they'll imagine getting aggressive.
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  Speaker 6: Well again, I don't want ever committed or something, you know, but.
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  Speaker 1: They'll get so they'll get her in maybe quicker if
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  Speaker 1: you say, we're just worried that there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: some you know, a danger to her.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, all right, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: We got a nurse.
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  Speaker 1: A nurse just texted in.
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  Speaker 3: She said, I've seen a lot of stroke patients that
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  Speaker 3: hallucinate afterwards and it mostly resolves with time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, thanks Chris.
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  Speaker 6: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, uh, Doc, I stubbed my pinky toe on
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  Speaker 2: a Zelda Encyclopedia book to the point where I can't
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  Speaker 2: walk on it. What can I do to get better asap?
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  Speaker 2: And how do I know if I broke it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Well, an X ray would show if it's broken.
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  Speaker 4: I've broken my pinky toe two or three different times
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  Speaker 4: hitting something. You can budy tape it and then get
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  Speaker 4: some open tod shoes like you know, flip flops or
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  Speaker 4: something that not having closed toe shoes that are putting
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  Speaker 4: pressure on it. But buddy taping it's your best thing.
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  Speaker 4: And then if you're not allergic to it, you know
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  Speaker 4: a leave or at the library. Prouffen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's see. My left palm has a dry spot
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  Speaker 2: on it. No matter what I do, I can't get
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  Speaker 2: I can't ever get it to go away, and it
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  Speaker 2: cracks and splits constantly. Can you recommend anything.
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  Speaker 4: Well, typically creams or oils. The more you use soap
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  Speaker 4: or water or lotion, it's not going to make it
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  Speaker 4: get better. I think you could always see a dermatologist
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  Speaker 4: to get a stronger medicated cream. But creams and oils,
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  Speaker 4: creams and oils in that utter cream bag bomb. Those
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  Speaker 4: things are great. Lanel, Yeah, Lane, that's heavy golden. I
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  Speaker 4: like golden Lanel and we used to carry it here
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  Speaker 4: at the office. It was really helpful.
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  Speaker 2: Go out to the f f A A. It's still
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  Speaker 2: some bag bomb.
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  Speaker 1: The federal with me if Federal Aviation you know the
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  Speaker 1: I the I f A if A gets your bag bomb.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, let's see doctor Cobble. I recently discovered I have
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  Speaker 2: green nail syndrome from from wearing a for like nails.
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  Speaker 2: What do I need to do for it? And when
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  Speaker 2: should I be able to wear nails again?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? I mean I think six months probably not wearing
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  Speaker 4: nails out and yeah, and I think it just takes time.
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  Speaker 4: A dermatologist may have a better answer for that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think did they have you without speaking?
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen a doctor and they've
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  Speaker 4: tried an antibiotic.
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  Speaker 2: See, is that this is why we like people to
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  Speaker 2: call in so we can do follow up questions.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know green nail syndrome was a thing that.
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  Speaker 2: Would be the first question that we could have hit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean sometimes it can be a bacteria pseudomonas,
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  Speaker 4: but I think, yeah, a dermatologist should be able to
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  Speaker 4: manage that pretty pretty easily.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what is the value, if any, to wear
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  Speaker 2: a continuous glue close monitor if you don't have diabetes
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  Speaker 2: but are over wait.
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  Speaker 3: This is the hot new thing. Well really continuous glucose monitor.
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  Speaker 3: Really it's the so the lady that they want to
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  Speaker 3: be the surgeon General that's not really a doctor, but
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  Speaker 3: is sort of a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: She's big into the contentus. But so this is it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious what doctor Carble thinks about.
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  Speaker 1: Why would people want to monitor their glucose if they
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  Speaker 1: don't have diabetes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think you know, one in three Americans are
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  Speaker 4: pre diabetic, and then after sixty five one and two
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  Speaker 4: are pre diabetic. Before sixty five one and nine Americans
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  Speaker 4: are diabetic. A large percentage of them don't know they
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  Speaker 4: have diabetes because it's not so bad that they have
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  Speaker 4: the symptoms of diabetes. But I think CGM are continuous
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  Speaker 4: glucose monitoring is pretty cool because it tells you what
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  Speaker 4: your sugar is doing through twenty four to seven period
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  Speaker 4: for two weeks. That's how long those monitors last, and
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  Speaker 4: you have to reapply one. But they're easy to do,
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  Speaker 4: fairly inexpensive over the counter now or with the prescription.
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  Speaker 4: By fairly expensive, I'm talking to seventy to one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty dollars a month, so for some people that's
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  Speaker 4: cost prohibitive. But I think the big thing is if
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  Speaker 4: you drink a glass of orange juice and you see
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  Speaker 4: your bloodhers go from eighty five to one hundred and fifty,
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  Speaker 4: or you have a couple pieces of toast with jelly
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  Speaker 4: on it and you see your sugar scirp from one
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  Speaker 4: hundred to one hundred and seventy, You've learned one thing
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  Speaker 4: right there, that meal is not the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: So normally, for healthy people, their blood glucoses are between
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  Speaker 4: sixty and one forty. For people diabetes, we hope they're
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  Speaker 4: fasting glucoses in low hundreds and never goes over two hundred.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it can tell you when you're doing
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  Speaker 4: the wrong thing. I say, that's kind of a cool
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  Speaker 4: way to monitor what behavior is doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious about looking into this a little mow.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you to both of you because I own
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  Speaker 2: stock and a glucose monitoring device.
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  Speaker 1: You really.
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  Speaker 2: Dispensary.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get you on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm very excited to reap the profits.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks doctor Cobble. We'll talk to you again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, thanks so much. Okay h