Dr. Kristen Lyerly on Men’s Health & Getting Checkups (Hour 2)

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A great conversation with our buddy, Dr. Kristen Lierly.

We're going to be talking about all sorts of things during this discussion.

Mainly talking about men's health and making sure men go to the doctor and get them tests, right Pete?

Yeah, and I mean, but whoever yeah, men women just Get tested regularly.

I like I didn't want to since I had a colonoscopy today.

I didn't want the focus to be just on men I hope I didn't sort of steer things that way but

no no No, that's not what I'm thinking that but that's something that I've talked to dr. Lylee a lot about is the fact that men's health right men, you know

getting over that fear, getting over the anxiety, putting the macho aside.

You've, you know, if you're hurting, go to the doctor.

The doctor tells you to do something, listen to the doctor or the nurse practitioner, whomever you speak with.

But yeah, no, and it's, it's, it's something that's very near and dear to my heart.

Cause we all know men out there who go, I'm fine.

Don't worry about it.

I'll go to the, I'll go some other time.

And then, you know,

So and I'm not one of those guys.

Like I said earlier, I just, I don't like going under.

I, in fact, I had this moment yesterday, Greg, where I'm like drinking, taking these pills, drinking all this water and preparing myself for it.

And I'm like, what am I putting into my body that's cleaning me out?

I'm going under.

I'm going to a hospital where I could get a staff infection.

Like,

do the

pluses outweigh the minuses.

Like, you know, it's just a weird thing.

Like you, you could.

What if you caught something while you were doing this, but, but you didn't and I'm healthy

and I'm glad I went because it's

over.

There you go.

There you are.

All right.

We'll, we'll be talking to Dr. Lyle more in, uh, in just a little bit and then we'll be wrapping everything up with the nightcap.

But before we get into that, let's restate the question of the night.

Pete, the question of the night was, what do you think is one of the most overrated songs?

So, you know, or just you think what is the most overrated song ever?

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I'm just getting to my

my Facebook page here because I got some answers on mine.

Let me tell you, but don't let's start with some, I know we got, we got, uh, we got comments on both the question question as well as other things.

So why don't we start with the text

messages?

Yeah.

We got Cindy from Appleton saying the national

anthem.

Okay.

Yeah.

Honestly, Cindy, you're not wrong.

The national anthem is not great.

I'm sorry.

I will say it right now.

Uh, for a couple of reasons.

One America, the beautiful is better.

Because I personally believe America the beautiful speaks to the beauty of America as the land and just everything about it is great And you go to the Sunday baseball game and they sing it and the dude salutes.

I love it also Read all of the lyrics to the national anthem not the ones we sing the entire song Because there are a lot more words in that song and guess what not all of them are great so

Cindy,

I'm with you.

I'm with you, Cindy.

We also have Brett

Brown here.

Yeah, he said the most overrated song is every song by Journey.

And happy, happy holidays, everyone.

Happy

holidays.

Wait, he's saying happy holidays now too?

He said happy holidays, but, but, but Sydney politics says happy New Year's.

Oh, that's true.

Okay.

Happy

420, everyone.

Have some pineapple upside down cake if you get the munchies.

Exactly.

And if you remember to celebrate, I hope you celebrate.

But I understand the point that Brett's making.

I myself at my wedding told the DJ no journey was allowed to be played because I used to have a major hang up on journey.

Cause I just, you know, it was like their music is whatever.

But I, I per, like every song, every song, I mean,

Every song

he's just got journey fatigue.

That's okay, but I I'm with you Greg I like a lot of journey look Pardon me.

I love don't stop believing but okay, I'd like it more if I hadn't heard it 78,000 times in my life probably

you know I mean well, and that's part of the reason why I said no journey because I didn't want people's I didn't want people like at a wedding you only have so much time and I didn't want like five journey songs be played

I didn't want to hear that at my wedding, so we said no to journey.

So yeah, thank you so much, Brett, for getting in touch.

Any other text line thoughts

there?

Yeah.

Monica from Mount Horup said, happy birthday, because birthdays are a let down.

And then she went into...

That's a pretty good one said by the way I had the same anxiety with my first mammogram to the all due to all the horrible stories I heard I had nightmares that it would hurt so bad Jump she jumped back ripped her breast off and couldn't see here her smushed breasts in the machine It wasn't anywhere near as bad as the stories.

Wow.

That is that's

a bad That is a that is a horrifying dream.

I'm sorry Monica I'm sorry that you had to do that that that happened to you in your dream, but I'm glad that you got it done

So just gotta do it, right?

I mean, that was hard to read and she had already been through it.

And yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

Any other text messages, Dom?

Yeah, we have a few more, but I have about two.

We have Brett from Brown Deer said 420 is the perfect day for pineapple upside down case, just like Pete

said.

It's

delicious.

There

you go.

Sorry, you

know.

And then Mark from the sacks had had my scope in March and I was lights out after the IV, then came into my recovery room.

Poly's gone, no cancer, all good.

Ordered a pizza as I couldn't drive.

All good.

I had a new prep, one glass off the prep, then two glasses of water the night before, then the same in the morning, not as bad as the gowns as the...

last five years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, okay.

So, you know, so what, so one of the things you have to do before you get a colonoscopy is do what's called prep and prep is essentially what Pete took a pill.

There's a liquid form.

I guess there's, I guess there's an over the counter version, my friend said, but I just like, just, just subscribe, prescribe me the stuff.

It's a, and I took the liquid, a lot of people take the liquid.

And essentially what it's doing is clearing you out it aggressively.

clears out your system in a manner of speaking for a colonoscopy.

And it's incredibly regimented too.

So, so as we were saying earlier, you know, we can only eat certain foods from one time to another.

And then in the last, like, I don't know, Pete, for you, was it like three, four, six hours?

There was nothing you could have water.

You could have, I think you could have black coffee.

Black coffee or tea.

tea flavor, but not flavor tea.

You can't have certain like, like I drank my, my prep with a Gatorade, but I couldn't drink it with red Gatorade because the red dye gets into the way of things.

So like you have to do it.

It's annoying.

It's not terrible.

It's just uncomfortable.

You're going to be going to the bathroom a lot over those next few hours, but again, it's part of the process.

Yeah.

And the doctor that.

They use up here in Christmas city.

He has a, even more regiment, like his prep starts three days out.

No nuts.

No, this

or that.

And

then I didn't know I could have had apple juice and Gatorade yesterday.

I just decided to turn it into a fast and I'm

like, well,

I'm only drinking stuff.

I did that.

But then I did have a big bowl of popcorn, which I didn't realize was on the list on Saturday night, but skated through the gut through it.

My, my list was quite.

It was, it was very regimented.

In fact, it went, it went 10 days ahead just so you were like, it said 10 days beforehand, read these instructions thoroughly.

Like it gave you a day by day.

And then three days ahead it said, you can't eat this food.

And then yeah, it was, it's a lot, but it's worth it.

And I

understand

the going under thing because, you know, it's not fun, but I, you know, I went under, I woke up once during the process.

And then fell back asleep immediately.

And then the next thing I heard was the lady saying to my wife, your husband's down the hall.

He's good to go.

That's exactly what my experience was too.

And I will say this and I'll ask Dr. Lyle is to when, like my wife said, when we left, she's like, you know what I noticed here?

There were plenty of people.

They were all doing their, it's not like when you go into a store or when they cut corners at like, you know, a different place where there's not enough people doing it.

Like the margins are so small because they've let people go and they

give

me three jobs.

I'm glad they don't cut corners for procedures like this or when you go

to medical buildings because

it's pretty scary too.

We've got some text here on the social media.

Um, alright was that it Dom?

We have one more we have one more that just came in Anna from Madison said hi Pete and Greg I also think don't stop believing by journey is an overrated song

Me too.

I'm I could never hear that song again be fine because I've heard it enough.

I'm good I said purple rain you guys.

I know you did.

I know you did

Wow boring.

It's boring Prince is amazing, but that's like one of his most boring songs It just goes on forever and I get it and it fit in the movie, but come on

Let's have

an

honest

discussion.

What an Oscar.

I guess, you know,

whatever.

So did out of Africa.

Beautiful scenery.

Okay.

What

a

weird graph.

What a weird reference.

I don't know if that's weird.

That's the first thing that came to my head.

Did rain win an Oscar the song?

It went for the soundtrack, I believe.

Okay.

Well, the soundtrack's great, but I'll take, give me more as day in the time with the

bird.

He won for purple rain.

He won for best original, original musical, which I guess they were giving that away back then.

He won best original song score for the film, purple rain.

Okay.

So

there you go.

Look, it's, I love the music.

I'm just saying, I think that's an overrated song.

It's not a good song.

All right.

Oh, that's fine.

That's fine.

What

else we got in the Facebook?

I got some pushback from my pal, Dick, who said, Pete Schwab, you are a crazy, fantastic song by one of the musicians ever.

I said, I agree about the best musicians ever part.

John Scott, our civic media pal said, tub thumping by Chumba Wumba, to which I said, John, please watch your language.

Sean on the Facebook said, most of ACDC's catalog.

All right,

so

you're blocked and reported.

I like the take though.

You got to appreciate him putting himself out there.

Uh, my pal Scott on, uh, Facebook says achy breaky heart.

Okay.

And

I've got to read our pal Amanda's rant.

She said, honey, I'm good by Andy grammar.

And here's why.

At the time this song came out, people were fawning over how romantic it was that he was telling the girl, no, he has someone at home and choosing his girl, blah, blah, blah, completely ignoring the fact that he said if he had one more drink, he'd more than likely go home with someone else.

That's not romantic.

He's admitting he knowingly would and could stray.

This song became a wedding hit for a bit and drove me nuts because there's no loyalty.

And it went all it would take is one extra drink for this guy to forget

his

commitment to another person.

All of this song has going for it is a catchy tune and it should never be ranked as a romantic hit and rant full stop.

I feel like there's a lot happening in all of those words, but thank you, Amanda.

Just don't hold back.

That was a blow drying.

If I may.

Sure.

Yep.

Sure, Pete.

Yep.

Yes, it was.

Absolutely.

Okay.

I'm glad you're acknowledging it.

Scott Tom says beat it.

Okay.

Jason Jerry, the Green Bay Lama says picture by Kid Rock and Cheryl Crowe.

You know, I feel bad for Cheryl Crowe because if, okay, if you've never heard that song or really listened to that song, do it, like try to do it tonight.

And I'll tell you why.

because you're listening to Cheryl Crowe who has one of the most magical voices saying backup for Michael Jackson back in the 80s this beautiful voice and then this this hillbilly wannabe son of a rich guy Bob Richie slash Kid Rock trying so hard to sing and he can't sing he's a bad singer and he's being paired up with one of the best ones of the past 30 years okay what a not just overrated but a bad song

I thought, you know, but the one thing I will say that's relatable about that song, we've all fueled up on cocaine and whiskey and wish we had a good girl to miss me.

I mean, I just want to fuel up on pineapple upside down cake.

That's what I want.

I mean,

it's 420 day.

Go

for it.

There you go, baby.

Andrew Brown says she bangs William hung.

I don't know if that's a joke or real.

I know it's not.

It's a, it's a reference.

It's no, it's a guy who, who, who covered she bangs on.

Oh, she bangs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So, okay.

Yeah.

Uh, John says, anything from kiss, Kyle Melby, Bohemian rap city.

I'm sorry.

Danny Frank's love shack.

Next question.

We'll get to the rest of them in a little while.

Those

are great texts though.

Yeah.

Okay.

Cool.

When we come back, we're going to be talking to Dr. Kristen Lylee about men's health, health in general.

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seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic leave a comment on the live stream let us know your answer to the question of the night which is what is the most overrated song feel free to text that in call us in or put a question or put the answer on the text or the live stream which is on facebook youtube and the platform we still call twitter still ahead we are going to ramp up everything with the nightcap but right now let us welcome to the show

our next guest, our buddy, our pal, the greatest doctor of all time.

And I'm talking to you, Dr. J. Dr. Kristen Lyrely is here tonight.

We're excited to have her.

How are you doing, Dr. Lyrely?

It's been a long time.

It has been a long time.

I'm good.

I love hanging out with you guys.

So this is just like, you know, we had some dinner tonight and now we're just chilling.

This is our after dinner conversation.

kicking back with like a cocktail, or if you celebrate 420, or if you want a pineapple upside down cake, however you want to celebrate your day, that's how we do it here.

We support all journeys.

Speaking of journey, Dr. Lyrely, what is your thoughts on the most overrated song?

Now, I will say this because you had a little bit of stress during the commercial break.

It doesn't have to be definitive.

It doesn't have to be what you think is the most.

Just your opinion.

Soft idea here on them what you think an overrated song is out there in the world.

I am bad at this because it

feels like I have to pick something that is like really great.

And what I would rather do is hear what other people have to say and go,

yeah.

Purple rain.

I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I'll read you some.

So I posted this question on my Facebook page because

I got

a Facebook page ladies

and

ladies.

Thank you.

Just like saying ladies after anything.

I just took out the garbage ladies.

And tell me if you agree with any of these.

So my friend Andrew, he also said on mine, William Hungs, she bangs.

I think that's more funny than anything.

My buddy

Pete said, sweet Caroline, I totally agree.

I think that song is.

But it's fun and everything's together.

Yeah.

And I've heard of being sung together for 40 years now.

I'm good.

I'm over it.

Because it rules.

This is hard for me.

Joseph McLeer, our buddy, our lawyer.

He's not our lawyer, but he's our lawyer.

He says Everlong.

I don't disagree.

I love Everlong.

I know you do.

Anything

Poofwriters?

Our buddy Rich Lucassio says Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon.

Hard disagree on that one.

Yeah, totally.

My former high school drama teacher, Ray Jivoff, says happy birthday.

I get that too.

And then

over rate, it's the second on your birthday.

It's like a tradition.

According to one

of our listeners, she said it's a huge let down.

And then finally, Nikki on the Facebook says Dan Zigg's mother, which I can, I grew up in the nineties and watch music, but I heard that song a lot.

So any

of those

stick out for you, love them all.

You could think about it if you want.

I don't think I'm not feeling that right now.

You also don't have an energy to me that.

would do that.

You know what I mean?

Like, you're so positive and reinforce everyone's good natures and good will that I feel like you don't want to do this.

You don't want to call out a song.

I love everything.

You really do.

It's really true.

I would feel bad if I was like, oh yeah, a stairway to heaven way overrated.

Then I'd be like, but you know, there were some great things about it.

It was so long.

They said it couldn't be played on the radio if you really listen to it.

I don't like, I don't know.

You don't

have

as tongue you hate.

Like you're driving.

You're being a doctor.

You're in the car.

You're thinking about OBGYN stuff.

And a song comes on.

What do you not want to hear?

Everybody the act out there was amazing Everyone we're on the stream I mean no,

I don't and I am a radio listener.

I'm definitely somebody who flips through the radio stations But yeah, no, it's kind

of

a game like you know

Your corner your corner of expertise

Also, don't forget, folks, you can check out the Dr. Kristen Lyler show by going to her YouTube channel, Dr. Kristen Lyerly.

Check that out.

It's awesome.

Can I tell you who's going to be on this week?

Who's

going to be on?

Who's going to be on?

Oh my gosh, do you guys know?

Earth Day is this week.

It's Wednesday.

Yes.

Yeah.

And nobody has a bigger crush on Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, Wisconsinite, former Wisconsin senator, Wisconsin governor.

Nobody has a bigger crush on Gaylord Nelson than me, except his daughter, Tia, who put me in my place when I told her that.

She said you do not love my dad as much as I did and I said you're right But I really loved him because he was so amazing and he did all of these incredible things I mean Earth Day look at what Earth Day meant in 1970

when

it started and how it was all about people coming together to say We need clean air.

We need clean water We need all of these other things to make sure that there's gonna be a future for us and now 56 years later

And just last week, we lost the boundary waters.

Things are not getting better or easier.

They're getting much worse.

So this is a time to remember the origin of Earth Day, which was people.

It wasn't politicians.

It wasn't leaders making laws.

It was people stepping up and saying, this is what we need to be able to live our lives.

There you go.

We'll check that out on her YouTube page.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely

for the

Dr. Kristen Lyrely show.

I mean, that's just, that's, I love it when you have a big guest announcement because you're so excited about it.

So I hope everyone goes and checks that out.

And we're gonna, you know, we're gonna take a short break in just a little bit, but when we come back, we are gonna talk about colonoscopies.

We're gonna

talk about

health, making sure

you go to the doctor because those are very, very important things.

Don, before we go to break, do you have any questions?

for the doctor really quick about your own health.

No questions yet, but after the break, I will.

Okay.

I'm learning it.

You're

22.

You don't need.

First of all, you're fine.

You dumb.

You should ask your questions.

Yeah.

Thanks, Dr. Schwabba.

I feel like we're just

irritating soft.

She

doesn't

have a song.

and now with, you know, and Dom doesn't need a physical.

What is the recommended age to get your initial colonoscopy?

Does anybody know recommended age?

I thought it

was 50.

It

used to be 50.

It's now 45.

It's 45 now.

And how old are you, Pete?

Just check in.

I'm in my 50s.

I'm in my really late 20s.

Are you 45?

And I put it

off a little bit.

So we'll discuss that.

We'll get to the bottom

of that

decision

when we come back.

We'll

get to the bottom of that decision.

When we come back, we'll be talking more about this topic with Dr. Kristen Lylee here on Night Light with Pete Schwabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.

Stay tuned.

Stay close.

I am a lineman for the county.

Oh, but I can't sing.

You can sing all you want.

Yeah.

You can.

Just not when

we're at commercial break.

Do you think that's a nice segue, though?

That actually sounded really good, Greg, when you

just said that.

Thank you.

I've practiced that song.

You're just a drummer.

I'm a bad air drummer and a worse singer.

But you are listening and or watching.

live stream.

We're currently streaming on Facebook, YouTube and the platform.

We still call Twitter really quick.

Livestream comment here about our question.

What is a really overrated song?

Craig says no longer a fan of John Cougar, Mellon camps.

Jack and Diane heard it too many times in my youth.

So.

Get

that.

Yeah,

Uh, we are here with our buddy, our pal, the one, the only Dr. Kristen Lyrely host of the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show, which you can find on YouTube.

And we've been talking about songs during the and other things during the commercial break.

If you ever want to find out what's happening during the secret show, that is on the live stream.

So that's like a private party, but you're all invited.

It is kind of like the.

Like we let our hair down a little

bit.

Yeah.

Exactly.

It's like a green room.

It's

like a green room hang room.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I'm having a good time.

But we were

talking.

We're all set.

A beautiful food time.

Definitely.

A beautiful food time that's definitely been like clean to like, you know, all purposes.

But we were talking about medicine.

I don't know what that means.

It's it has to do with the live stream, everybody.

Just, you know, just.

Check out the live stream.

I suddenly had this urge to culture the futon.

Just get your black light out.

Like culture the futon.

That was

a total doctor.

I gotta Google that.

Nice futon.

It's been cultured.

Only on its birthday.

So

we were talking to set it up.

That's all I know.

So one of the reasons why we wanted to have you on the show today was because Pete, as he said earlier in the show, had a colonoscopy today.

And we were talking we you and I have talked about this because I had one last year.

And we wanted to just talk about the fact that it's not just men, but men.

And a lot of times they resist the doctor.

For various reasons whether they're scared of the doctor or they don't think they need it They have their reasons.

I you know, that's not what I'm here to get into in my myself But I think it's important I'm really happy that Pete got it because I think that all folks who need to get their colonoscopy should get it because it's it's it's I Pete what do you think about this was it's did people make it seem scary than it actually was

I never thought the procedure itself was scary.

I don't like going under and it was just something I didn't want to be inconvenienced by because I always tell myself myself I have a lot to do and colonoscopy, whatever, but it got to be a few years after I should have had it done and my kids were on me and I just said, yeah, I got to get this done.

So I kept telling myself, well, you know, colon cancer doesn't run in my family.

I'm probably okay.

I eat a lot of antioxidants, whatever.

But yeah, it's stupid.

You know, I, you just got to bite the bullet and I did it.

And, um, I don't like going under though.

That was the main reason.

It's not like the procedure itself freaked me out.

I mean, you're out for it, but I just, uh, I had some trepidation and I, you know, it was all for not because the doctor said, I have an outstanding colon.

The shame of it is it's an inner organ.

Nobody will ever see it, but

mine is first

rate doctor

pictures.

They're on Facebook.

Check them

out.

Yeah.

And

I did it.

And I got no, no, everything was great.

So I, you know, it was just one of those things that I'm glad it's over because

you don't

sleep at all the night before I will warn you guys out there.

If you're getting a colonoscopy, prepare not to sleep.

I got mine done at 9 30 in the morning because I'm like, well, why, why wouldn't I just sleep in?

Why do I want to get up at six?

Well, you might as well get it done at six because you're up all night.

You doing the prep.

You

just don't sleep.

You were not?

No.

Oh, yeah, of course.

I did the prep and, I don't know, I did the prep and I was done with the prep and then I just went to sleep.

Well, I got like two hours of

sleep.

Wait, what?

When you say you did the prep, you mean you did the prep, then did what happens after the prep and then you went to sleep?

I did the prep.

Well, before that, I had eaten well, so I wasn't like full of stuff.

So when I did the prep, there just wasn't that much stuff to come out of me.

And then it was all done, and then I just went to sleep and had a nice night.

It was good.

Interesting.

I did that

too, but it was a...

whole process like I told Greg earlier I I was so I felt so pure everything was gone.

I didn't want to eat again.

I didn't want to corrupt or compromise my body.

My insides are so shiny.

I think it's fun to get on the scale before and then after and be like seven pounds.

That was amazing.

Oh

my goodness.

Great way to keep the weight off.

Getting a colonoscopy every week.

But what do you mean?

Honestly, Dr. Lylee, what do you say?

I mean, it's not because you are an OBGYN, but you talk to more than just women about medicine.

And with regard to this topic, how do you approach folks in the way that you do when they come to you with fear, trepidation, or just all out, just like, well, I don't need to do that?

Like Pete said, I'm going to use his words, but he still went and did it.

He says, if someone says, well, it doesn't run in my family, so I don't need to do that.

What do you say in those situations?

Well, you know what's so funny?

you had made an assumption that Pete was afraid of the colonoscopy and Pete wasn't afraid of the colonoscopy.

He was afraid of going under.

So anytime that I'm talking with somebody about a procedure or a medication or something, it's really important for me to know what my patient is thinking because I might be thinking about.

People are generally scared about A, B, and C. And my patient might be really worried about D. And if I'm not hearing what they're saying, I can't address their concerns.

So I think regardless of what it is that you're looking at, it is so important to feel like your health care provider.

hears you and understands what you're saying so that when you're faced with a procedure, even something as simple as this, like these are not totally uncomplicated.

Something could go wrong or there could be some finding or something that happens that changes the course of your life.

So it's really important to feel like you are in charge, like you understand what the risks and benefits are and that you have a support team that's there for you to answer your questions and make sure you're headed in the right direction.

Our guest is Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

She is a rockstar OB-GYN and a podcast host.

Follow her on all the socials.

She's great and puts out really, really insightful and helpful information.

That's kind of what it was me.

And I wasn't saying I don't need one because colon cancer doesn't run in my family.

That was kind of my fallback.

Well,

I'll

get one, but I'm not in a hurry.

And honestly, and I'm not saying this to be funny, Dr. Lyrely, but I told this to Greg before.

you know the things that can go wrong while you're looking for something kind of freak me out

you're going

under you're being invaded so to speak or you know you're in a hospital where there's germs or somebody can make a mistake and it's like well why did i do that in the first place when this happened now the chances of that are probably much less than finding cancer or polyps or whatever but it's a it's a scary thing um yeah

So what do you tell people for that?

And also, what are some other tests that might fly under the radar or that people might think, oh, I don't have to get tested for that?

Or is there a test out there where the numbers are low, where you go, oh, people should get mammograms, colonoscopies, whatever it may

be?

it depends on who you are and what your risk factors are and how old you are.

All of those things factor into what your prevention protocol should be and sometimes it's blood work, sometimes it's imaging, sometimes it's procedures, but this is again why it's so important to have a relationship with your healthcare provider because they know what those recommendations are and what those guidelines are and they can walk you through it and you know when you're talking about some of the things that can happen when you have a colonoscopy the risks are so so

very low.

what happens if you have a colonoscopy and there is a finding and suddenly you have a polyp or maybe you have cancer.

That completely derails your life.

You're thinking about what is this going to mean for me?

Is there going to be surgery?

Will I ever be able to work again?

What about my family?

Am I going to die?

So that's another piece that I think a lot of people go into procedures like this thinking, I don't want to know.

I would rather not know.

But if we don't have these conversations with our healthcare providers, they don't know what our fear is.

are and they can't address them.

And I want to, you know, we spoke to Dr. Donald Chee last week.

He's a DDS PhD at the University of Washington.

And we talked about this topic in a way of

making sure whomever your doctor is, whether it's your dentist, whether it's, you know, whomever you're going to, making sure you have a great, you have a good relationship with them, you feel comfortable with them.

The moment you don't, it's time to find a different doctor, because I think something Dr. Lierly you've been talking about for years now is the fact that you need to find a doctor who you feel comfortable with, someone who listens to you and gives you the best advice possible, takes in account your fears and trepidations.

And I think that just, you know, that just furthers the conversation we had with Dr. Chi, is that like,

I don't think a lot of people put a great deal of stock into whether or not they're comfortable with their doctor.

They just go to the doctor and then nowadays it can be a 10 minute visit and then they're out the door and they don't get the chance to ask their question because they're nervous.

But you have to have a physician or a medical expert who you feel comfortable with.

If you don't, find someone who you will be with.

I think a lot of people also feel like their doctor can just tell if there's something going on, almost like there's a magical sense.

They're like, oh, my doctor will understand if I come in and I say I'm tired, they'll understand why I'm tired or they'll get the right tests.

And that is not the case.

So much of what we do when we're trying to diagnose a problem is ask more questions and try to figure out what the risk factors are and what are you concerned about and what were you exposed to and what kind

to test do we get next.

You know, some things are pretty easy to diagnose, some things are really hard to diagnose, and sometimes it's not that first person you go to who can help you figure it out.

Sometimes you need a second opinion or a third opinion

if

you're not connecting.

If that one person doesn't have the answer for you, we are not perfect.

We try to be perfect.

We try to do the best that we can for everybody, but we don't know all the answers all the time.

So it's just incredibly important, and I can't emphasize it enough, which is why I'm saying it for like the third or fourth time.

It's so important.

to have a relationship with the person who's taking care of you.

It's funny you say that because I cannot wait to tell.

our physician's assistant who we see when I go in, I'm gonna tell her I finally did, because

every time I go in, she's

like, so, and the mistake I made with the dentist we had on, I asked him a bunch of questions about my colon, which was probably

through him

a little bit,

but yeah.

Hey, it's all connected.

You're dental health?

You guys, dental health is related to all of these chronic diseases, including preterm birth and other like pregnancy related problems, because it all starts, if you've got

germs and infections and bad things going on in your mouth, that affects every other part of you.

So if it's your time to go to the dentist, do

that.

Dr. Chi is going to get me a referral.

That's fine.

That's

great.

Greg

did hit him up for referral.

I did.

I don't like that either, but I do.

He was very nice.

I'm like, I trust anyone you like.

So really quick before we get to commercial break, Jack from Merrimack is on the line.

Jack, we only have about a minute.

So please ask the question we'd like to get to Dr. Lyleigh, please.

Now more a statement than a question.

I'm 82 years old and for me the most important thing as a male in particular is preventive maintenance.

Medicare does a marvelous job of allowing you to go to your position.

and ask questions, and the copay and the deductible all that stuff is relatively minor when you're seeing your major physician, but it's critically important that you end up talking with your physician on some kind of a regular basis.

I was the lifeguard for six years and my physician referred me to a dermatologist.

when I started having some weird stuff on my face.

Well, it turns out there's been a lot of preventive stuff that's been done by that dermatologist to keep me from having skin cancer.

Thank you very much, Jack, for calling.

We

appreciate it.

Sorry

to have to cut you off.

We have to get to a break really, really quick here.

But thank you so much for getting in touch with us.

Dr. Kristen Lyrely, follow her on social media.

Get to the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show on YouTube.

Thank you so much for being here, Doctor.

As always, we love talking to you.

I love you guys.

Thanks for having

me.

We

love you back.

Thanks, Dr. Lirely.

Can we have a sucker

now?

Oh, jeez.

You can pick a toy out of the chest of toys.

All

right, when we come back to Night Light with Pete Schwab and Greg Bach, it's time for the night caps.

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Greg, you would have made a killing back in the party line days when you were in party

line

when

you

called in.

Any ladies on the line?

Any ladies

on

the line?

You smell as sweet as a rose in springtime.

All right, folks, we thank you so much for joining us.

We do have a couple more comments on the live stream as well as a couple more texts for our question of the night.

What in your opinion is the most overrated song?

Nick Marshall, Nick in Marshall listening on WMDX says the most overrated song to me is 50 cent in the club.

I get

that.

That

was a, that was played a lot back in the day.

Like it was one of those songs, Pete.

That'd be like, all right, that was in the club by 50 cent and coming up.

in the club by 50 cents.

It just everywhere, everywhere.

So, uh, I feel like there were some more live stream comments we didn't get to.

Oh yeah.

Tony, uh, on the live stream said Bohemian Rhapsody.

Oh yeah.

That's a bit, that's yeah.

I mean, it's a great song, but yeah, it's overplayed.

I know.

And it also, it also seems to come back every

15 to 20 years.

Like it came out in the, in the, in the like the early to mid seventies and then Wayne's world made it huge.

And then Bohemian Rhapsody came out.

It was huge again.

Like we just get that song

every,

yeah, I get that too.

And that's the thing is overrated songs.

That's such a personal opinion.

I understand why you might not like that tune.

Dave also says everything by the Beatles.

Okay, Dave, calm down.

Now that is, that is my purple rain thing look like nothing.

Yeah.

Cause the entire discography of the Beatles period, every single song from bebop aluba to, to, uh, something, something, Dave, something.

Is that a George Harrison?

Yeah.

But he was in the Beatles.

I love

George Harrison's.

Oh, I didn't know that.

I

love George Harrison's solo stuff.

I thought

he was my favorite

solo Beatles.

Fun fact about that song though.

Frank Sinatra used to sing in his set and said it was his favorite Lenin McCartney tune.

Oh really?

Yeah.

It was written by George Harrison.

We have

a couple

more on Facebook here.

Troy Shanks on Facebook says Africa by Toto.

Okay.

Troy

Shanks who?

Oh, interesting.

I'm not going to get into his personal life, Craig.

Could be a gang last name.

Who knows?

And Tony Lourino says anything by Coldplay,

To

which,

uh, our pal John Egan responded, I don't know if they're friends or not, but he said Tony Larino boo

was, was, was John's response in all caps with all the exclamation points.

Cause John only knows how to speak in two volumes, regular and nuclear allowed.

John

is

always mad about something.

He's mad about something right now.

I guarantee you that.

Yeah, but no, this

is a very nightcap friendly boo

boo.

Chill boo.

Chill boo.

All right.

We really appreciate everyone getting in touch with us.

Oh, by the way, really quick, before we get out of here, uh, we are very, very, very proud to present freedom rising voices strong on Mayday benefit concert in Madison.

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We'll be talking more about that in the coming days, but that will be coming up in a couple of weeks, because guys, we're almost in May.

Nervous.

That was like a Ted Baxter laugh you did, Greg.