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Dr. Cobble Q&A From November 12th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's time for you to take stock of your
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  Speaker 1: health and welfare by talking to a physician.
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  Speaker 2: A doctor.
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  Speaker 1: He's doctor Michael Cobble, and he's on the phone with
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  Speaker 1: us right now and he can answer questions you may
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  Speaker 1: have medical questions, free medical advice. It's almost like being
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  Speaker 1: at a party, doctor Cobble. When you're at a party,
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  Speaker 1: do people ask you for medical advice?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's so painful, and I don't even
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  Speaker 3: like to go to parties. My wife's like, why don't
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  Speaker 3: you tell him you just work at the sanitation department. Well,
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  Speaker 3: when they find out I'm a doctor, then they're going
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  Speaker 3: to say I was.
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  Speaker 2: A liar, a lying doctor. I have a question for you, doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I got my flu shot and my COVID shot. Great,
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  Speaker 4: but for you the flu shot specifically. We were doing
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  Speaker 4: a story yesterday about how the flu in Europe, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: is a little earlier than normal, and they're thinking maybe
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  Speaker 4: because people aren't people are dumb there too and not
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  Speaker 4: getting vaccinated. But I'm wondering if the vaccination that I
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  Speaker 4: got here will be for the same one that they're
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  Speaker 4: experiencing in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that should I mean I think, did you get
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  Speaker 3: the French fry flu shot?
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  Speaker 2: I want that one Freedom Fried.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it should, it should cover it, and it's
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  Speaker 3: perfect time to be getting I think early November is
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  Speaker 3: the perfect time to get the flu shot for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm good, But yeah, they were saying that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like I said, there's dumb people there too
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  Speaker 4: that are like, we're vaccinated out, We're not going to
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  Speaker 4: get vaccines anymore, and they're seeing a real uptick and
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  Speaker 4: flu there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, people take their risks, and you know
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  Speaker 3: what risk reward?
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  Speaker 1: What can you do about We had a story today
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  Speaker 1: about pneumonia. It's actually it's World Pneumonia Awareness Day. There
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  Speaker 1: is a vaccine or a shot you can take that's
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  Speaker 1: will protect you somewhat from pneumonia.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you've had a splenectomy surgery, should get the
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  Speaker 3: pneumonia shot after that. Usually they'll do that in the hospital,
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  Speaker 3: but if you're over fifty, they recommend to get the
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  Speaker 3: bivalent pneumonia shot, or at least get the full coverage
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  Speaker 3: pneumonia shot if you're over the age of fifty to
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  Speaker 3: minimize the risk of passing away from pneumonia. People that
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  Speaker 3: are higher risks for pneumonia. Obviously, are a compromised and
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  Speaker 3: they're poor health. They have diabetes, they have heart failure,
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  Speaker 3: they have malnutrition, or they have another illness that precedes it.
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  Speaker 3: But I think in general, if you're a very healthy person,
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  Speaker 3: the pneumonia hopefully won't put you in the hospital or
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  Speaker 3: kill you. About seventy percent of community acquired pneumonia can
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  Speaker 3: be managed as an outpatient setting. Only about one in
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  Speaker 3: four people. With the amount you have to be hospitalized.
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  Speaker 3: But the quicker you get treated, the better chance for survival.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a call. Let's go to the call.
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  Speaker 2: Were you done, Gina?
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  Speaker 4: I was just going to say, while we're talking about pneumonia,
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  Speaker 4: I took my son to the doctor yesterday and he
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  Speaker 4: was diagnosed with walking pneumonia and they gave him a
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  Speaker 4: Z pack which.
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  Speaker 2: Which should which should clear it up pretty quick.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean that that's a that's a good
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  Speaker 3: antibiotic and well tolerated, so that should should cover it. Great.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Uh Caroline is here? Hello Caroline? How are
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  Speaker 2: you today?
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  Speaker 5: I'm well, thank you good.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 3: Wes Jordan?
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  Speaker 2: What's your question?
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  Speaker 5: I'm just curious why most and quite frankly, all mids
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  Speaker 5: have been prescribed to me as daily and not as needed.
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  Speaker 5: I have a problem with some pain in my leg
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  Speaker 5: and I was told you should take it every day,
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  Speaker 5: and I said, but it's not an everyday thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think medications prescribed as needed or if you're
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  Speaker 3: having it, you know, acutely, meds taken every day, or
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  Speaker 3: for chronic problems. So for example, if I have an
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  Speaker 3: inflamed ankle, I might take my leave or celebrates once
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  Speaker 3: a week just before I go for a run, or
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  Speaker 3: for you know, if it's just going to bother me
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  Speaker 3: that day. But I think if you have high blood pressure, diabetes,
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  Speaker 3: or high cholesterol or altcers, those medicines you're taking every day.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're just taking anti inflammatory or analgesic or
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  Speaker 3: allergy pills or different things like that, or asthma medicines,
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  Speaker 3: you might just take them as needed during the time
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  Speaker 3: of year or the episode where you're having trouble.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of medication is it? That's the question.
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  Speaker 5: It is Gabba Pitton.
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  Speaker 4: You have to build up gabapent and that's part of it,
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  Speaker 4: right to get on top of it.
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  Speaker 3: You yeah, for pain and neuropathy. Gabbat penton is a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better if you take it routinely. But there
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  Speaker 3: are some people that only have the neuropithy or the
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  Speaker 3: pain off and on, and they may just take the
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  Speaker 3: gabut penton two, three, four days or you know. So
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  Speaker 3: everyone's a little bit different. So yeah, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's unreasonable if that said as needed, but if it's
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  Speaker 3: chronic pain or chronic neuropathy, probably would do best taking
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  Speaker 3: that routinely.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, there you go, Caroline, great question.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Cobble is standing by for your calls, and we
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  Speaker 1: do we have some text questions.
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  Speaker 2: We got a few.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, let's see doctor Cobble. I heard my muscles tear
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  Speaker 6: near my ribs while making while raking leaves. What is
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  Speaker 6: the best treatment for the pain?
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  Speaker 3: Pay the neighbor kid to do it the exactly an
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  Speaker 3: analgesic anti inflammatory, probably before you go out and do
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  Speaker 3: the raking. So if you're not allergic to them or
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  Speaker 3: you don't have altars, a leave two or three pills beforehand,
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  Speaker 3: a couple extra strength talent all and then you can
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  Speaker 3: take up to five a leave a day for two
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  Speaker 3: or three days. But yeah, I would have someone else
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  Speaker 3: do the raking or use an anti inflammatory and an
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  Speaker 3: analgesic before.
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  Speaker 4: What can I ask you why you do that before
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  Speaker 4: because I typically take those after when I'm sore.
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  Speaker 2: You're saying to take it before, well.
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  Speaker 3: I think you want to stop the inflammatory process before
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  Speaker 3: it gets activated. So I think that you know, if
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  Speaker 3: I was going to go out and go running and
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  Speaker 3: I know my ankles or my knees are going to
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  Speaker 3: get sore, take one or two a leave one or
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  Speaker 3: two talent al before I go out, and then you're
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  Speaker 3: ahead of it. That makes sense. Yeah, I mean you
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  Speaker 3: can certainly do it afterwards as well, and maybe do
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  Speaker 3: it for two or three days after to keep the
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  Speaker 3: inflammation down. But I think if you can get ahead
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  Speaker 3: of it, then you're and you're not suffering for two
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  Speaker 3: or three hours or two or three days.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Right, Mark is on the phone, Hey Mark, Hello, Hi, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: I got a hey.
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  Speaker 7: I had a couple of suspect suspect moles removed and
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  Speaker 7: one of them was on like the outside of my
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  Speaker 7: ankle and I work at a metal shop. I'm on my
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  Speaker 7: feet all day and the one on my shoulders fine,
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  Speaker 7: but the one on the bottom on my foot just
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  Speaker 7: hurts through the bottom of my foot, like the last
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  Speaker 7: half of the day, every day.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like on the bottom of your foot
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  Speaker 1: or on the side of it.
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  Speaker 7: It was on the side of the ankle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would outside flamed and red. If it's not
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  Speaker 3: inflamed and red and breaking down and doesn't look infected,
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  Speaker 3: and they think that, what I would do is just
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  Speaker 3: do a shoals pad or some kind of pad around
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  Speaker 3: it to protect it, just like people use when they're hiking,
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  Speaker 3: or called mole skin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, yeah, you just that should help.
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  Speaker 1: In the grocery store, you'll find you'll find a doctor shoals,
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  Speaker 1: you know, display of all kinds of stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So just put a little in that, okay, Bill, that's
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  Speaker 3: next to the meatballs.
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  Speaker 7: Right, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's often close to the meatballs, right right?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six two nine six nine six. There
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  Speaker 1: you go. The phones do.
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  Speaker 6: Work, Yes, quick and simple. Pregnant wife with the world's
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  Speaker 6: worst allergies. What can she take that is safe?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, in pregnancy, allergies are miserable typically, so almost any
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  Speaker 3: anti histamine is safe. So I think whether it's loratidine
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  Speaker 3: or clariton or is al or Zytec, allertachs, the tyrazine
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  Speaker 3: or the old ana histamines like growth grumph and armine
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  Speaker 3: or crimaton, indianaissamine safetury pregnancy. So I think the newer
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  Speaker 3: ones are twenty four hour. So I think the Claiton, loretodine,
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  Speaker 3: zizeal Zertech allertech and she may have to take them
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  Speaker 3: twice a day, but those are all safe and pregnancy well.
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  Speaker 2: Good good.
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  Speaker 6: Clok Trimatan is my favorite transformer. Sarah is here, Oh, Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah, Hi, Hey there, Hey, where are you calling from.
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  Speaker 8: I'm calling from Sandy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's up?
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  Speaker 8: Well? I am randomly losing eyesight in just my left
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  Speaker 8: eye and it lasts for about five minutes at a
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  Speaker 8: time and about once every two weeks. Now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you have you sought other medical like an
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  Speaker 6: eye doctor.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I have an appointment actually next month to see
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  Speaker 8: a neuro ophthalmologist.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: And they're going to do it a an MRI scan
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  Speaker 8: to see if they can see if there's anything going on.
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  Speaker 8: It's really disconcerting because it happened for the first time
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  Speaker 8: only about a year ago, and it's like happening more
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  Speaker 8: and more often and it's no pain involved, but my
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  Speaker 8: eyesight goes completely away in just my left eyes.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild.
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  Speaker 3: And how young are you, Sandy or I mean Sarah.
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  Speaker 8: I am thirty four?
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  Speaker 2: Thirty four?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's unusual. I think. You know, seeing an optomologist
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  Speaker 3: optometrist first, seeing the neurooptalmologist is fantastic. The MRI, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's so many things, you know, whether it's the retina
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  Speaker 3: or the optic nerve, or the pituitary gland or clinically
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  Speaker 3: isolated syndromes or there's so many different things it could be.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, getting the imaging the MRI and seeing
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  Speaker 3: the neuro optomologist is awesome. And the good thing is
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  Speaker 3: you're not having any pain with but it sounds neurologic,
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  Speaker 3: so a neurow ophthalmologist.
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  Speaker 2: You've made the right choice.
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  Speaker 3: Well it's yeah, hopefully it's self limited and it's something
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  Speaker 3: that they can identify and treat easily.
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  Speaker 8: There you go, Sarah, absolutely, yeah, awesome, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know how it goes, will you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, curious, right, I'll call again.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see, here's a text question. What stomach issues can
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  Speaker 6: come with taking a semi glue tide for over a year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean taking semi glue tide to GLP one injections.
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  Speaker 3: Those drugs have been on the market twenty one years.
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  Speaker 3: But I think typically you can acutely when you first
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  Speaker 3: start them, get nausea, vomiting, delayed gastric emptying, heartburn, in ingestion, diarrhea, constipation,
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  Speaker 3: any you have any stomach issue. Typically those are self
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  Speaker 3: limited and they're dose related, So usually people experience that
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  Speaker 3: the first three to.
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  Speaker 2: Six weeks and then they just go away.
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  Speaker 3: Typically they're typically about five percent of people just can't
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  Speaker 3: tolerate those injections and just can't stay on them. There
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  Speaker 3: are rare cases of pancreat titus, inflammation of the pancreas,
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  Speaker 3: and certainly no one ever wants.
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  Speaker 8: To have that or see that.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't typically see people get stomach problems a
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  Speaker 3: year later. You know, usually it's but anything can happen
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  Speaker 3: because it is a medication. So I think those are
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  Speaker 3: things to talk about with your clinician that's prescribing.
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  Speaker 5: It for you.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we need to get on this because doctor Oss
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  Speaker 6: says we're each going to lose four hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right before the next election, then we're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Start making brillions of pounds brillions of prime brillon.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Final question via text whin the barber here needing tips
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  Speaker 6: and tricks to induce labor for missus Coles at thirty
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  Speaker 6: nine plus weeks pregnant, she's ready to be done. What's
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  Speaker 6: the best way to induce labor? I, you know, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Being walking, you know, being active and walking and and
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  Speaker 3: I think that can help. So that's what I would do.
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  Speaker 3: I would just say, get out and walk as much
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  Speaker 3: as you can.
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  Speaker 1: So walking, all right, that's that's what That's what I
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  Speaker 1: remember being recommended. Okay, then thank you, thank you doctor Cobble.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for the calls.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you next time time