Ibuprofen

Because you can't take ibuprofen.

Yeah.

You can't, you know, Motrin, Advil.

Right.

You can't take ibuprofen.

If I didn't take things in the right order, my brain told me something could happen to me while I was sleeping.

And even things like Advil or Tylenol became difficult for me because the night before my friend passed away, we were out to dinner, she had a headache, and I had given her Advil, and I kept that to myself until I was in treatment for years.

Logically, I can understand now that giving someone an Advil for a headache did not make me responsible for what happened, but OCD does not give a shit about your logical explanation.

It goes, "But what if?" And I didn't realize how much guilt and fear I had attached to that one moment until I finally said it out loud.

That's why I think suffering silently with these things is so dangerous.

And both Clint and I knew that this was a verified miracle, as we had, you know, the scans previous and the scans before.

Also, he was in so much pain, and then at the end of that, he was not even on Advil.

He was completely healed, and they called it the mir- like w- all the, the nurses were calling it the Miracle Room 26, 'cause that was the name, the number of the, the room he was in.

And so [laughs] it was incredible.

I shouldn't have picked it up.

So anyway, I get to the airport and I'm in a lot of pain and I'm literally, I'm in the queue, I'm on AI asking it what I should do about my back, right? Anything else? And anyway, luckily I had some Ibuprofen and the pain passed and all that.

And then when I get over to Germany, I do a post when I'm over there, someone comments on one of my pictures, hey Scott, I hope your back's okay.

I was reading your phone screen when you were at the airport and you were asking AI lots of questions about your back.

The next time you sip some champagne, it's going to come with extra hangover.

And an Advil.

Well, hopefully an Advil.

And you're going to need a designated driver.

Because the amount of alcohol in champagne just hit an all-time high.

You know, last week we talked about over-the-counter pain medications in terms of oral pain medications.

We talked about Tylenol and Advil.

We talked about the different types of over-the-counter medications, how they work, why they're effective, and how they can be dangerous if misused.

So this week, we're going into topical pain medication.

Let's start with topical diclofenac gel, which is sold under the name Voltron or Voltron Arthritis Pain.

This is a NSAID, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

So it's kind of like if you had Advil, instead of eating the Advil, you would apply it to your skin.

Why is it more beneficial to have a topical cream in this situation versus just taking an Advil?

She's an impatient teenager.

What she really needs right now is an Advil and some sleep," right? And so I had this immediate impulse of, like, I know the right answer, and it's time to go to bed, right?

Mm-hmm.

And the best thing we're gonna do for ourselves is, you know, take an Advil, go to sleep.

Uh, and she, uh, really did not take kindly to that.

[laughs]

Uh, and so I just took a second and thought, "Okay, what does my research say about this?" And I immediately realized that I just literally did everything wrong.

You know? I sort of, like, assumed I knew what the problem was, I assumed I knew what the solution was, I assumed I knew why she was feeling the way she was feeling, and there could've been so many other interpretations that I could have arrived at had I asked the questions and shown to her that I'm interested in learning about her perspective instead of just sort of, like, giving her a simple solution, right? Like, I didn't really know how bad her back was hurting.

You don't see

my jar of Advil or my cane here.

Yeah, no, no. Oh,

my God.

I am continuing to play Carter with a K, who has, like, a broken rib, but literally no worries.

He's had an Advil.

Tylenol?

Tylenol.