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Steve-O Describes His Most Painful Injury

I read in your book that you were saying the worst stunt you ever performed was the jet fuel that was the most painful yeah yeah for sure it um it was it was a frustrating question for uh you know for me when people would ask what was the most painful stunt particularly because it was such a frequently Asked question yeah and uh you know it frustrated me because there are really different criteria to the pain there's the duration and then there's the intensity and the type right and um I uh would lean towards um the you know quicker it's over the better but you know it's it's just apples and oranges and then when I had suffered the third degree burns on 15 of my body and needed skin graft surgery that actually checked both boxes the burning the language yeah yeah the duration and the intensity of the pain was uh like just in another world I I went on effectively a tour of burn units after that wow and uh and and heard multiple times that people who have been both shot and stabbed as well as suffered Burns will tell you burns are the worst pain of everything I could see that yeah that's really bad did you feel the pain right away when the burn happened or was this I I did I did it uh it wasn't as bad the next day and then each day thereafter it just got like more and more unbearable and then at day five I was like okay like I got a progressive shut up in the hospital on day five and they're like what the [ __ ] were you waiting for oh you didn't go right away yeah there I thought that it would just get better you know okay and uh and and I showed up on day five and they they explained that I needed emergency surgery wow and the real pisser was that uh their next question was when's the last time you ate and I was like die just ate and before I came so like you have to wait eight hours eight hours and I had just um refused um the you know painkiller you know like now I'm a sober guy I don't want any painkiller and then I heard we cannot operate on you for eight hours because you just ate and I said okay give me the painkiller do you know what they gave you I believe it was Dilaudid yeah and um my arms were so burnt they put the IV in my neck wow so you had like a central line put in yeah and um it uh it's it's crazy being a sober guy in recovery like you know how quickly that awakens the Beast you know like oh like are you in pain yes The receptors right away started yeah it's really crazy and and then and it was uh it had a real like sort of powerful effect on me like I I you know yes I am still in pain I need more and then what snapped me out of it at one point when I was asking for yet more they said we'll give you more but it's getting to a point where I'd be concerned about your you know getting off yeah and that woke me up and I was like oh yeah like I got it what would your advice be either to yourself in that moment when they initially offered it or maybe to someone else who's facing the same dilemma um I mean there I could be in that uh situation a thousand times and and 100 of the time I would take that pain killer the pain was that bad wow um I I uh I'm kind of careful about giving out advice to other people particularly as it relates to addiction but um I know that for me and in my 14 years of sobriety I've never even filled out a prescription for uh for any kind of a painkiller I mean it's been all Advil and Tylenol okay congratulations on that that's a lot yeah I've been in um in horrific pain and uh taken Advil and Tylenol together okay but that's as far as I've gone got it okay and in severe cases we do recommend that uh in the hospital it's unbelievable how effective both of those uh are uh Tylenol and Advil well because they work slightly in different ways so you kind of get a stacking effect of the medicine and again I don't recommend that to most patients because it's largely unnecessary for most people but in certain instances a big example of it is actually dental pain and I've heard you've had a lot of dentists unbelievable amounts yeah yeah and your biggest risk that you say people face is by doing one thing that not Everyone likes to do what is that yeah it's not a risk that uh that everybody faces it's just personally my biggest regret in life like you know in the grand scheme of things my biggest regret is that I was not diligent about flossing and um I uh I think I was genetically predisposed to having poor oral health you know and the teeth and gums department but um part of that and really the worst part of that is that um I was one of those people who I am one of those people who cannot get away with not flossing because not flossing led to uh the presence of a bacteria with a very it's a very distinctive odor when someone has this bacteria and uh the the crazy thing about it is that the person who has that bacteria in their mouth smell doesn't know it yeah doesn't know it and I remember like um you know being uh like in my very early 20s maybe late teens my mom would say oh you're your breath I'm your mom I just brushed my teeth it's just like I don't care your breath is and I didn't get it you know I didn't get it I didn't understand it and um it was just years and years later that uh that a dentist said hey you know um you've got this odor in your mouth like uh you know and and I became a diligent philosopher one time I got in a van with all the jackass guys and and women and women says oh dude Stevo your breath and Knoxville just says saying Stevo has bad breath is like saying wee man is short it's just all the time and and uh got so many years of my life that uh it was disgusting for people to have a conversation with me because of this odor coming out of my mind and did flossing solve that it did I had a and uh a round of deep cleaning okay and um and and flossed ever since now I have a whole ritual at night um water pick is how I start then I floss then I brush then I tongue scrape okay and I rinse with the fluoride rinse okay I love it so you have like the full cycle going on yeah because I'm just such a horrific gum recession that really it's just an exercise and doing everything I can to preserve what little remains yeah and and if it weren't for my poor oral hygiene with the flawsics it's not just the you know the the bacteria the odor that was emanating from my mouth it like I'd blame the the hardcore gum recession on that too yeah of course and I'm curious did you when you started doing the hardcore Dental Care did you at the same time get the Barrett's esophagus process started I had the um I I had it already but you had it right the reason I ask is because a lot of times acid reflux will present with bad breath wow so I wonder if like as a child yeah were you like a kid uh having early symptoms and that's how you developed Barrett's esophagus from long-standing reflux I wonder uh it sounds like it could have been uh it could be a chicken or the egg thing here because the the um acid reflux presenting is bad breath so like what came first the experience for the bad breath yeah yeah for sure yeah it's crazy and you know what what's what's so uh perplexing is how it's um like in our culture like like you'll tell somebody if uh if they've got like a booger in their nose yeah like if someone's got looks oh you've got some food on your face yeah but like nobody and myself included can uh bear to say to somebody dude because I think it's not as easy to be fixed like you can wipe this off but if someone's breaths right and I want to like when I smell that very distinctive bacteria smell coming out of someone's mouth I I I have this inner dialogue I want to tell the person like hey like you know I'm I I don't want to be unkind but I you know I want you to know that that uh I I can smell this thing that that I used to have a problem with and the answer is to to go to the dentist and get a cleaning and then floss and a real tell is that if you floss and smell the floss you can tell that well yeah that that's that's that actually happens to people that are healthy as well if they haven't flossed in a little while right and and uh now as I move forward in my life I I really predict that I'm going to have a whole new biggest regret and that is going to be um not having a very uh disciplined stretching regimen interesting

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