I Just Got Out Of the Hospital...AGAIN!

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]What's up, YouTube? I'm Mike. It's the Dan back with kind of a weird video. Um, you may be able to tell from my appearance. Um, and from the title of this video, uh, I I just got out of the hospital yesterday, and I'm bombed out of my gourd right now on painkillers and muscle relaxers. So, I figured why not shoot a YouTube video in this condition.

[00:00:20]And for some reason, to add to the effect, I decided I'm going to I'm going to sit here and solve this Rubik's Cube. Uh, I'm going to attempt to solve this Rubik's Cube while I explain to you what's been going on around here for the past like 48 hours or so. So, um, this is going to take a while cuz I'm I I don't have it at all right now. Um, so a couple couple days ago, um, uh, I started having real bad shoulder pain for no reason. My wife and I had been going through all the stuff that I've been telling you guys were going through um just with relational with our relationship and our marriage and everything. And so we were kind of like not really on speaking terms. She was in one room of the house and I was in the other and we were just kind of doing all the normal mind games, ignoring each other and all that kind of [ __ ] And so I'm laying in bed. I don't even remember exactly what I was doing.

[00:01:11]I think I was laying in bed uh writing in my journal again. This journal and this Mont Blanc pen I think are trying to kill me. Uh because every time I I try to spend any time writing in my journal, uh I end up injured. I don't know what the [ __ ] So I was sitting in bed and all of a sudden I I just went to like stretch, you know, and I went to move my arm and my arm would just it it was getting stuck like just it wouldn't move. Like I had like, you know, some movement this way, but it's like that lateral, you know, like maybe a shoulder impingement, but I haven't been lifting.

[00:01:45]I haven't been doing anything. Um you know, I mean, I have been lifting, but I go to the gym and I'm do I'm like I'm just totally phoning in my workouts right now cuz I'm just like in total maintenance mode. So, I go in there, I lift for an hour. Um, you know, I usually do like like the last I went to the gym, it was it was back in uh the time before the injury I I did back and back and buys primarily just back routine. Honestly, like I said, I'm just totally phoning in my workouts just trying to keep keep glycogen in the system. just basically just trying to maintain what I already have. I'm making no concerted effort at growing or or doing any anything even remotely similar to a real bodybuilding routine. So, there's no reason I would have injured myself. I'm lifting super light an hour at a time, maybe not doing anything but playing Valheim around the house. So, I just could but it it felt like but the the way the the way my joint wouldn't articulate, I thought maybe I knocked it out of socket, which I know is I mean it's [ __ ] like how how do you knock your arm out of socket sitting in bed? I have no idea. But I came out to the to the my wife the the room my wife was in playing games. I was like I I can't move my arm. She's like what do you mean you can't move your arm? And I was like Sean like it won't it's like [ __ ] stuck.

[00:02:58]And I said will you grab my hand and yank on it? See if it'll pop back in socket. Of course that wasn't it. She yanked on it. No no no nothing's working. And so uh you know what do you do? you know, it was like it it was uh it wasn't really like any kind of significant pain as long as I didn't try to move it in certain directions. So, I just kind of stayed off of it. By the next morning, it was totally normal. So, I was like, you know, no big deal.

[00:03:22]Whatever. Weird weird occurrence. You know, what are you going to do? And um so, I went about my day. I actually went to the gym, did chest. Uh I had no problem. No problem in the gym. My my shoulder didn't hurt at all. No issues.

[00:03:35]I again, I didn't go heavy. I'm not trying to do anything. just like a normal [ __ ] chest day and came home um played games last night. Went to bed, if I remember correctly, I think before I went to bed, I started noticing that it was getting tender again except it was hurting. And I woke up, we we've been staying up real late. We're both I've told you, we're cracked out addicted to this uh Valheim game and we've been we've been staying up late playing Did I just do it again?

[00:04:04]I keep trying to solve this on camera and I I keep doing something stupid over and over and over again having to start over. Um I can't I can't handle painkillers, guys. Uh uh what was I doing here? [ __ ] Um damn it. So um I don't think I'll be able to tell a story and do this cube at the same time. She uh I woke up in the middle of the night. It was like 5:30 6:00 in the morning and I was just in in excruciating pain. Um I took a m a muscle I took uh some painkillers and waited a little while and that did nothing. And then like like like ibuprofen I took and um and then she starts getting nervous cuz I'm like I have a really high pain threshold and so the you know my wife knows that I'm hypochondriac in general. I'm always thinking I'm dying of some some you know crazy condition. But if I start complaining about pain for for any length of time, she knows something's going on because I I have a I have a very high tolerance to pain. And so, um, she starts reading and looking and finding out that she thought was having a heart attack is what it was because she she found something online that said like guess when you have a heart attack.

[00:05:23]So, or or or it could be an event that precedes a heart attack and uh it can cause like pain to go up in in the left side of your neck and your jaw and your shoulder and like the the so like it my arm was throbbing. I couldn't move it like hardly at all and it was shooting like radiating pain down my arm and it was affecting my first three fingers. So my my middle finger, my ring or my index finger, my middle finger, and my my pointer my thumb were like would go numb and be like have the pins and needles feeling. And so she she's growing concerned that I'm having a heart attack. Although I was having no symptoms like my heart felt fine. I was checking my pulse. My pulse wasn't I didn't have any fibrillations or anything like that. And so um but the the pain was so excruciating and and and I had already taken a muscle relaxer and uh that wasn't doing you know a muscle relaxer cyclopenszoprne plus uh like ibuprofen 800 is not touching this pain.

[00:06:22]There's no way I'm going to sit here and and tolerate this. And so she started kind of getting ready like like you know maybe something was going on. She was getting nervous. I was I was about to have a heart attack. So, she got in the shower and I just told myself, you know, if if the pain isn't gone by the time she gets out of the shower, then I should go to the hospital, find out cuz I I've been having concerns that I might I might be um you know, I might have a heart condition or something because of all the the roids and you know, I've been talking, you know, people keep talking about how red my face is. Uh this these red things that you guys are talking about right here on the sides of my face, uh that is trend induced. I I don't know what it is that causes that, but it only happens on tren and the higher the dose, the worse it gets. Um, so my wife calls it tren eyes. Um, I don't know why that occurs, but you know, I've been having this weird condition where when I bend forward, even if it's like to lean over the sink or bend over tie my shoes, when I lean up, my face will be almost completely black. The color is so dark in my face.

[00:07:22]And so there's like a lot of signs and symptoms that I could have some kind of Venus insufficiency or, you know, something going on with my heart. And I just, you know, I don't want to go I don't want to go mess with it. So I so I ignore it and don't do anything about it. And uh but but when it comes to pain, like I'm not I'm not going to just sit there in in in agony. And so I decided if if the pain's not gone or getting better by the time she gets out of the shower, then I'll go. So we go to the ER. Uh by the time we get down there, uh I mean I am hollering like just it's getting worse and worse. My my arm is completely immobile. The the shooting pain going down to my fingertips is miserable. Um and nothing is working. And so I have no idea what that beeping on my computer was just now. Um and so she starts telling them all the symptoms due to my age, the steroid abuse. I I I think she said something that I'd been having some chest pains. I was having no chest pains. They they obviously they didn't waste any time. They got me right into triage. Okay. If I don't screw this up, I can solve the queue from here. So, let me let me focus on this real quick.

[00:08:50]Boom.

[00:08:54]Cube solved on racked off my my gourd on pain pills and telling a story at the same time. So, uh, I got into the ER and, um, they did they did EKG. They started doing all the workups. They were acting like they were acting funny about the EKG. But of course, they start asking you questions about what you're taking. And when you think you might be, you know, when you think you might be having a heart attack, that's that's not the time to, you know, to play games.

[00:09:17]So, uh, I the guy goes, "What kind of drugs are you taking?" And I told him, you know, some of the like obvious the safe ones, you know, and he's like, "What else are you taking?" And I said, "Well, I take a lot of steroids." He goes, "What are you taking?" I said, "Well, you want me to me give you the whole list?" And he's like kind of being a dick. Like, yeah, that's what I'm asking you. And it's like one of those things where, you know, the guy's asking me, "What kind of drugs am I taking?"

[00:09:36]And I know that telling him is a waste of my [ __ ] time cuz he's not going to have a single clue what anything. So I was like, "Okay, I take 70 milligrams of testosterone cipionate uh once, you know, divided into two doses. Uh so 35 milligrams twice a week. I take uh uh 40 milligrams of trenbalone enanthate twice a week. I take 2 milligrams uh 1 milligram of Tren ace twice a day. I take kbergolene divided even doses three times a week totaling 1 milligram uh 5 milligrams of demivol 80 milligrams of telmasartan. So I'm just running off this whole list which of course did get under his skin cuz he didn't know what 90% of it was and he's like what are you taking all these drugs for? And I was like well cuz I'm a bodybuilder for one and so most of those drugs are steroids and the other ones are are drugs that counteract the effects of the steroids.

[00:10:27]And so he he's obviously really irritated with me in the whole situation, but you know, I'm in the ER.

[00:10:32]They they got they got to treat you.

[00:10:33]Whether they like you or not, they still got to treat you. And so, um, they take me back, they put me in the room, and they did, uh, heart scans or whatever, the EKG, and they ordered some chest X-rays, X-rays my arm, and um, and then the girl goes in, she goes, I I I got something to make you comfortable. And so I'm thinking she's going to give me a [ __ ] Vicodin or whatever. And uh she she comes over with this little syringe.

[00:10:58]I said, "What's that?" She said, "It's fentinel." Oh, here we go. And so she pushes uh she said.5, whatever that means. She pushed fentinel and uh ravatin I think um methylarbamol pain relax pain reliever. And um I've never had fentinel before. I guess I have. I had morphine. I don't think I've ever had fentinel. And um certainly not out outside the confines of like a surgical procedure like when they did my mouth but what I think they gave me morphine for that. So I'm sitting up there wide awake. She pushes the fentanel and uh within about uh a minute or so I started getting a little floaty and uh but the pain's not going away.

[00:11:42]And then within a few minutes the pain had started to subside. be I couldn't tell whether the pain was subsiding or I just didn't care about the pain cuz I was [ __ ] hammered and I'm having to close my eyes cuz the room was just spinning. It's just like it it's spinning and spinning and I'm like just in a lit. I mean I've I I don't do opiates so I have zero tolerance. They could have given me a tiny minuscule amount. I wouldn't have known you know I have no no tolerance at all. don't do any kind of opiates. And so I'm sitting in there and as I'm in there just hammered like I am kind of now I I'm the only thing I'm thinking about once the pain went away is uh how does anybody do this on the street? Like I just don't get it, man. Like the o opiates are no fun. like yeah like I I was super chill and relaxed, you know, but it's no kind of way that I would I I just can't imagine the the mental state that I would be in where I'd be sitting around the house one day going, "Man, I just want to I just want to I just want to do some fentinel and get looped out of my mind. Like I just it it it doesn't appeal to me at all and it doesn't feel good enough. Just it just to me it just ruins your day." Like I I like to be like going going. I like to be accomplishing something, doing something, and uh being able to formulate thoughts and this stuff just has me just in this fuzz. I didn't really enjoy it, honestly. Um but it did it did make the pain eventually. It didn't ever go away, but it it took me from like I'm I was on the verge of asking them to cut my arm off. Like that's how bad the pain was. And I was convinced that they were going to like if it wasn't a heart attack, which by this point they had they they seem to have ruled that out. They they're just by, you know, in the beginning they're like everything is really urgent.

[00:13:32]They're doing a lot of tests. They're checking a lot of things. And then obviously as they start getting data back or they're seeing they're seeing the results of different things, they start kind of figuring out, okay, well, whatever's going on here, you know, he his vitals are good. He's not having a heart attack. They already ruled that out. And what they basically were trying to dump it on was the doctor was saying, he starts asking me a bunch of questions about where I get all this where I get all this gear from. And he's like, "We, you know, we think that you have an infection. We think that you may have sepsis or some kind of uh deep deep tissue thrombosis or infection in your shoulder." And I was like, "Sir, you know, it could be. Obviously, I'm not going to tell you your business, but uh and I'm not going to tell you where I got it, obviously, but uh I've been doing business with these people for 5 years, and I've never one time had a product uh cause me any kind of issue."

[00:14:21]And of course, they don't believe you.

[00:14:22]They they they they think it they think that everything that you get is fake.

[00:14:27]It's massively cut up. Like they don't understand that we have, you know, ganachic labs testing stuff with, you know, we they they don't understand how how legit the gear is on the market if if you know what you're doing these days. And so um and so he there so so they when they think that you might have an infection they have to do these special kind of blood tests where they they poke you in the arm they put a needle here and here they do them side by side and they do them on both arm and they do them at the same time. It's like a it's like they're launching a nuclear weapon from the from from the Red October and they need the matching keys turned at exactly the same time to push the button. They have to like completely sterilize two arms and then they they draw blood from from two locations on each arm at the same time.

[00:15:13]So you got two nurses on either side of you holding you and and doing these tests and lo and behold uh every single thing they came back was negative. So the good news in in this whole thing is uh they found no enlargement of of my left no left ventricular hypertrophy uh no clogged arteries in so far as they could see this stuff from from from what limited tests they did. They they checked my tropponin levels was super low uh even lower than the last time.

[00:15:43]Um, how a troponin is something that they'll check to see if if you if you may have had a heart attack or if you any of your heart muscle is damaged, I think. So, all of my biomarkers were good. The only biomarkers that were a little up were the ones that, you know, they're always slightly elevated to me, slightly elevated. um a alt obviously slightly elevated creatinine levels um you know the kidney function markers some were slightly elevated and um and then everything else that was elevated was was consistent with uh so like I had like high white blood cells monocytes and neutrfils or something you know so it's like uh everything was non-remarkable and all consistent with um you know with just having some type of inflammatory situation the interesting thing was they also did a C reactive protein which was very low. So I had no systemic inflammation. Uh the bacterial cultures both came back negative. So there was no bad gear. So I had I was not having heart attack. I was not having a stroke. I was not having uh an aneurysm. I was not h I had no vital organ problems that they could see from any of the the tests they did. All of the blood work came back uh within normal acceptable ranges. and the stuff that was out of range was just consistent with like the kind of trauma that I was experiencing from the excruciating pain etc. uh they found no no no no no signs of torn or or damaged uh muscles and ultimately they were like we don't know we don't know like uh and I'm like I asked the doctor I was like well like can you at least can you at least just make so so I'm in there long enough that the first dose of fentanyl and um painkillers that [ __ ] lasted maybe an hour tops. I don't know if that's normal. Like I don't know what the normal is, but my body was r was metabolizing it rapidly.

[00:17:34]So like I was hammered off my gourd for a while just in and out of consciousness. My I heard my wife tell my daughter, uh, that daddy's having an experience over there cuz like my eyes be rolled back in my head that halfopen lids staring off into the to the distance. I mean, I was bombed out. Um, and then slowly but surely as the pain starts coming back, my my consciousness is coming back and I was getting ready to rip the rip the heart monitors off and go down the hall because they were taking forever to come back in there and and even tell me what was going on. So, finally the doctor comes back in, admits they found absolutely nothing wrong with me. No, no more, you know, morbid conditions, nothing that it would explain what's going on. He said it could be a pinched nerve. Basically, there's nothing else we can do do for you here. you're going to have to go see an orthopedist if if you know if it doesn't get better on its own, you're going to have to go see an orthopedist and find out what's going on. And they gave me another shot of fentinel and uh with a Vicodin at the same time and a muscle relaxer. So, I spent the next hour bombed out again uh on fentanyl uh uh methylarbamol and um and Vicodin, which created an even weirder combination. Um, I guess it's just like a lot of drugs. That first the second time around, the fentanyl didn't hit me anywhere near as hard as the first time.

[00:18:56]But for the past like day or so, I've just been bombed out on on uh highdosese Vicodin and muscle relaxers and Xanax and laying in bed. We binge watched uh Dutton Ranch or something. Uh I don't even know what we're watching. I'm like in and out of consciousness. Uh when I get when I get like when I take anytime I take opiates or anytime I'm injured, I turn into a big baby. And so like I've just been cuddling my wife just like like like she was like a [ __ ] stuffed animal just completely uh in meshed with her for hours and hours and hours and hours all night long. And um and my arm is better today. So like I've got See, oh I got it to 90 at least. I'm not I'm I'm not really playing any games with it and trying to test it too much because whatever I did I that pain was so excruciatingly bad that I don't want to come back. Um I'm probably going to stay on the painkillers for the rest of the day. Um and the and the muscle relaxers and just chill out and see what see how I feel by the end of the night. Uh we had to we had to switch our entire bedroom cuz I color every night but I'm usually on the like the right side of the bed. You know, if you're fa if you're if you're laying in the bed, I'm on the right side of the bed. So, my left arm has to go up to to go underneath her to spoon. So, we had to we had to flip-flop because I can't use my left arm. Um, so we had to move all the [ __ ] around nightstands. And, uh, I woke up today and my my the pain is is much better. The mobility is better. So, I guess it's just some kind of freak occurrence. But the good news of it all is uh everybody who's been telling me the doom and gloom stories about how I'm destroying my body and I'm going to give myself a heart attack. Uh I was starting to believe you bastards. I also showed them the the the thing about how I turned black when I leaned forward and they just like they didn't even give me an answer. Like they were totally they it was not it was another bad um emergency room uh experience honestly.

[00:20:58]Uh they just absolutely didn't seem to care at all. Um and uh I guess you know I get it. It's like their their primary their primary job is dealing with actual emergencies, you know, they're not they're not general they're not general they're not internists, you know, and so it's weird because it's like you go to the emergency room. I went to the emergency room to to find out what was wrong with me. Like that's in my mind I'm like I'm going to go to a doctor and find out what's wrong with me. When when when you get there, their objective is to make sure you're not having an emergency. And then once once they've ruled out an emergency, it's like, okay, get the [ __ ] out of here. go figure it out on your own. So, you know, it's totally useless. Um, I have insurance this time. Last time I didn't. Uh, but they they tried to charge me uh $7,900 and something dollars for triage.

[00:21:47]Basically, that was basically the co the cost of walking in the front door, talking to a nurse and maybe a doctor, answering a couple of questions, getting my blood pressure checked, my pulse checked, and E EKG uh was like $7,900 and something dollars after insurance. So, of course, I will not be paying any of these bills um because I never do because you don't pay medical bills. Anybody who pays medical bills is a complete fool. So, there you have it. Um, that's what put I I had planned on making some more videos. Um, but um, you know, [ __ ] happens. The good news is apparently I don't have um, uh, any uh, lingering heart issues, at least not that they were able to determine in their um, limited uh, investigation of my body. Uh, and I can do a Rubik's cube on camera while telling a story. So, uh, apparently the brain is still functioning even when hammered by narcotics and benzo and muscle relaxers.

[00:22:52]So, uh, there you have it. That's a [ __ ] video for you, but it's content of some kind. And as always, we'll see you on the next one.