Doctor Reacts To YouTuber Medical Emergencies

As someone who has also "broken their ass", I can confirm it is extremely painful. They checked me out and gave me a prescription for pain meds. I was a kid, and I remember lying on my stomach all day while it healed because it hurt less. 30 years later and I'm still climbing on stuff I shouldn't.

Youtubers: “I’m about to perform this incredibly dangerous, ill-conceived stunt with no safety precautions in place or medical personnel on sight. What could possibly go wrong?” Everything. Everything could go wrong.

A while ago my mom started having chest pain. She went to the doctor and they gave her pain meds and told her it was probably nothing. They wouldn’t do much for her. She was still in pain for days and days. She kept telling him she could feel something in her chest. When she ran out of meds and wasn’t getting better she went back, the doctor refused to help her. Told her she wasn’t giving her anymore pain medication. Thinking my mom was making it up. She was so rude. My mom finally went to a different er and they took her in immediately. When they looked at her lungs, she had blood clots in them!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was lucky to be alive. Still makes me furious to this day.

I just met Dr. Mike at a convention in Chicago this last weekend. He is just as genuine in person as he is in his videos! Meeting him was completely unexpected and I was fully star struck when shaking his hand! I cannot believe he became a doctor at age 24. A remarkable individual here to change the world for the better ❤ thank you Dr. Mike for all you do!!

Markiplier probably holds the record for the most times a youtuber had to go to the hospital lol

6:04 This video by Ice Cream Sandwich is very cut- in the full video, Andy describes how he threw up twice before deciding to leave the workshops early. He then walked all the way home because he had no vehicle, and during that walk his abdominal pain worsened dramatically and he nearly vomited again (his sheer willpower and not wanting to barf in front of a random car stopped him) as well as almost blacking out. He finally made it home and went to bed, passing out almost immediately. A couple hours after that is when his roommate and his girlfriend got concerned and made Andy get his ahh to the ER.

Having fractured my coccyx, I can attest to how painful it is. I was thirteen, took a hard fall on a hardwood floor in gym class, and my teacher kept downplaying it, saying I was fine, I was just being dramatic... I couldn't sit down straight, could hardly walk, I was screaming in agony. She still refused to believe anything was wrong. Went to the doctor, sure enough, it was fractured, almost to the point of it coming apart. My parents were *furious*, and rightly so! I had to sit on a rubber inflatable donut, which I was teased relentlessly for and actually had another student unscrew the air valve so it went flat on me during class 🙄 That same teacher tried to fail me because I had to take a couple weeks off from gym to recover and then go back to just light exercise. It healed, but I still have back pain to this day, and it ruined my ability to play soccer, a sport I *love*. Anywho, thank you for the video, Doctor Mike! Hugs and love from California!

I'm glad iJustine shared her story and survived. Also its good she had a kind sister who helped her when she was dealing with this. So many people don't have loving family or friends to help then in such situtions. Much love and support for both of them for how they handled such a difficult situation very well.

iJustine's story got to me because my sister has May Thurner syndrome. She was diagnosed at 16 years old because a couple weeks after we'd returned home from a trip which involved a few long-haul flights she was having pain, swelling, and redness in her leg. She went to emergency with our Mum and they discovered a METRE LONG BLOOD CLOT starting in her groin and going down her leg. She had two intense surgeries in which she has a filter placed, the clot dissolved and removed, and a stent put in her vein. It was a horrible experience for her (both the medical emergency, and the surgeries themselves in which she was not taken care of the way she should've been which unfortunately leaded to her developing a pulmonary embolism) and left her with bad medical PTSD. She's 23 now and has since had another metre long blood clot (this time in the other leg) after a very, very bad experience with a 'specialist' who majorly fucked up and put her life at risk, leading to the placement of a stent in her other leg. And has had some partial blockages which were resolved more easily, as well as two more stents which were put in place to essentially reinforce the other two, leaving her with a total of four. She's so resilient and brave and I couldn't be more proud of my little sister. I'm really glad Justine was able to get the help she needed.

There could be an entire episode on Markiplier alone.

In the fifth grade, my best friend fell off a platform in the playground, and he was laying on the ground and told me he was fine. I told him to lift his head up so I could see. It was about a 2 inch cut, and I immediately knew he needed to go get stitches. After I ripped my jacket off of my waist and used it to soak up some of the blood, he ended up needing 14 stitches.

0:07 - Casey Neistat 2:14 - Jesser 3:29 - Jeff Wittek 5:20 - Ice Scream Sandwich 8:26 - PewDiePie 10:17 - iJustine

Mike is the only online doctor I have watched and has not turned out to be a criminal Edit - omg time for me to right " ma I am famous"

This man is the only reason I am SLIGHTLY interested in the medical field. Keep up the great work dr Mike!

My second daughter was an emergency forceps delivery. I'd been on bedrest for over a month already w PIH and was developing preeclampsia. The delivery fractured my coccyx. Fourteen years later and it hasn't healed, and likely never will. I love reminding her about she'll always be a pain in my ass, and she's absolutely worth the pain. Also, was a teaching hospital. About 25 OB/GYN residents, ~10 peds residents, plus the NICU staff with their crash cart, my L&D Nurses, my OB, adult crash cart, etc... It wasn't a huge hospital room either. Forceps aren't terribly common so makes sense. When they finally left our room it looked like a damn clown car emptying out.

Fun fact, if you have all the symptoms of appendicitis and then all of a sudden your right lower quadrant pain goes away or suddenly becomes much less severe, you need to het to the hospital asap. When the appendix ruptures, it can relieve the pressure from being inflammed and enlarged, leading to a short period of relief from the pain. It can trick you into thinking you're getting bettter, when in fact things just got much worse. I watched this happen to a kid in my school clinic years ago and had to call an ambulance instead of waiting for his dad to pick him up to take him to the ER. His appendix had ruptured right in front of me, and he jumped up wanting to go back to class because the pain had suddenly subsided. He made a full recovery luckily,but spent much more time in the hospital because of the rupture and subsequent infection

I am a ballerina with thoracic outlet syndrome! I am on anti-inflammatories at the moment to reduce the risk of a clot and to help with pain. The doctors did discuss shaving down my first rib if it becomes too problematic but we are trying to be as non-invasive as possible and I am managing it well! Hi from Australia btw!

I’d love to see Dr Mike do a deep dive with Jeff Wittek into his life changing injuries on the podcast!! As someone who has also suffered a life altering head injury I’d love to hear Dr Mikes opinions on Jeff’s treatments and subsequent depression 🖤

Dr. Mike, have you reacted already to the incident where that hockey player got his throat slashed? Would be awesome, educational and cool to watch you react to it. You could invite a hockey player to talk about rules and stuff too or something

The wanting to continue part after sustaining an injury in athletics takes me back, when I was a teenager I broke my wrist playing basketball and just got back up and kept playing since I didn't feel any pain. Let me tell you I felt it when I caught the next pass and made the injury 10x worse.