Mister Fixit

On 1/11/2021 at 8:20 AM, Boomer6969 said:

I have done a half day  PADI scuba diving intro class. Does it qualify me to join the fight ?

It probably allows you to paddle no deeper than your knees.  

21 hours ago, JAS21 said:

I bet the outside world thinks that the US is more than half full with those that are short of a full set 

Rest of the world here - we've known that for decades.  Trump is just the culmination of what we already knew.

2 hours ago, FRM-BKK said:

I have been using Wise for a few years now.

i feed my Wise account with both Euros and Sterling from 2 sources.

 

I regularly send money to SCB and to Bangkok Bank.

 

SCB always arrives in seconds.  Bangkok Bank usually the next day around 2.00 pm.

 

Friend of mine uses Wise to Kasikorn; also arrives in seconds.
 

In my opinion delays are more to do with the receiving bank (technology of the bank concerned), as BKK bank is definitely not as technologically up-to-date as the other major Thai banks are. 

I use Wise to transfer from my UK bank (Santander) to Kasikorn and transactions are always between 3 and 10 seconds.

Bangkok Bank has a bad reputation for holding on to funds until the next day, as I suspect as someone else said, to maximise profits.  

On 8/25/2016 at 7:56 PM, PattayaBoy said:

Btw
Its easy just get it no prescription and inject yourself.

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
 

Yes, I do that as I have a pituitary adenoma (cyst) and need regular injections of testosterone.  

I buy a 3-ampoule pack of testosterone enanthate for 550 baht from a pharmacy next to the petrol station at Nana crossroads which my local clinic charges me 80 baht to inject every 18 days.  It's usually 21 days for most people but the doc and I titrated the does as an experiment and we found that 18 days was best to achieve an optimum level, mainly because I'm approaching 76 now.

I don't inject myself because the nice lady doctor at my local clinic only charges 80 baht (including syringe) and is so skilled I never feel any discomfort.  

Although you can buy the 3-pack from Nana, your problem is that you'd need to find a doctor who will be prepared to inject you and you'd need to convince them with a history that it would be safe.

NOTE - the 3-pack at 550 baht is from India but there is a single ampoule pack costing 200 baht (which some consider 'better') which is sourced from Austria.  

I have found no difference except that buying three single amp packs here in Nonthaburi saves me a fairly long traipse down to Nana, although costing me the 20-something baht extra per amp but not having to pay the MRT fare and a walk up from Sukhumvit station to just past Nana crossroads as I have stage 3 to 4 arthritic knees.  

3 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Never give a filipina an excuse to get jealous.  They can become very unhinged and a pain to live with. 

 

I couldn't even thank a checkout operator without many questions being asked later. 

 

Either you put up with it or get out as fast as you can.  8 months and I ran as fast as I could.  

 

No regrets

I'm English, but had the same response when I got involved with an Englishwoman. 

Got out as fast as I could, especially when I realised she had a family history of mental illness (Only discovered too late) 

Her mother died locked up in a mental hospital (Springfield) in London where she'd been for almost 30 years.  That did it, I sprouted wings.

8 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

Putin's mafia clan lied to everyone. Lies his own population with ever new lies. At first it was just a special mission against the Ukrainian Nazis. It's just a pity that the right-wing got less than 2% of the votes in the last election and aren't even represented in the parliament of Ukraine. Then he lied to his own soldiers that the whole thing was just an exercise. In truth, it is a war of conquest of the entire Ukraine. Anyone in Russia who publicly opposes the war against the so-called brother people is going to prison for 15 years. Then the perpetrator Putin becomes the victim. NATO is to blame. Although many of the Eastern European states have been NATO members since 1999 and 2004. Against this background, Putin's pseudo-argument that NATO would then stand on the Russian border in the event of Ukrainian membership is completely absurd. Then the war is now being justified with the existence of biological laboratories, except that no Antrax is being produced there, but medical research is being carried out on vaccines, etc., just like in any other country. Putin is afraid of his own people. When a bit of democracy flares up and the population asks how such a small KGB officer could become the richest man in the world and why all his 300 mafia friends are billionaires. Putin has shut down and blocked all critical media in his own country. But sooner or later,  the truth will come out and then his own people will eliminate him. With this war Putin and his mafia clan bring only misery to the people of Ukraine, Russia and to the people across Europe.

There's a name for it - 'small man syndrome'.  Think back a few hundred years.  Does the name Napoleon Bonaparte spring to mind?

On 3/7/2022 at 7:56 AM, Tropposurfer said:

e old Biblical saying about; casting ones pearls before bovines' comes to mind.

 

More like porcines ...  

On 3/12/2022 at 10:07 AM, Misterwhisper said:

Which explains why he is driving an "absolutely non-clean" fossil fuel-guzzling Porsche. Ah, the hypocrisy! 

It grows on trees here.  

10 minutes ago, Artisi said:

I've often wondered what a pureblood Thai is, has anyone ever done any DNA research, probably too hard to negate  the chinese, khmer, lao, Indian etc

 

Thailand is a mongrel country, with people from numerous neighbouring or not so neigbouring countries,  just like Britain (especially me!).  

On 3/8/2022 at 12:42 PM, Enoon said:

Britain and Russia.

 

19th century.

Britain and Russia start off as friends....because Napoleonic France  threatens all the monarchies of Europe and that of Russia.

 

Then Britain and Russia stop being friends..............because Britain feels that Russian expansion South and East threatens Britains empire.

 

Britain becomes friends with the Ottoman Empire (anti Russian) and, together with France (friendly now) and Sardinia, defeats Russia in the Crimean War.

 

Later on the Ottoman Empire starts to get friendly with the rising German Empire, so Britain makes up with Russia to counteract Germany who, it feels, is challenging it's pre-eminence.

 

20th century

A big war takes place during which Britain plays a large part in defeating the Ottoman empire, Russia fights Germany for a while but then goes "commie", and signs a treaty with Germany, and Britain, together with various other countries, invades Russia in 1918.

 

For the next 20 years Britain and Russia are no longer friends, especially when Russia helps Germany to re-arm and signs another treaty with Germany.

 

Germany and Russia invade Poland in 1939.....half each.......that was the purpose of the treaty, to grab Poland without upsetting each other.

 

Britain is now, technically, at war with Russia, due to a treaty that Britain has with Poland..........but seems to ignore it.

 

In 1941, to Stalins utter astonishment, Germany invades Russia and forces it into a war for Russias survival.

 

Britain and Russia become friends "for the duration".

 

Russia survives and grabs half of Europe.......thus half of Europe finds itself under a dictatorship not far removed from the one it thought it was being saved from.

 

Mid 20th to early 21st century

Britain and Russia cease to be friends......then they think they are again.......then they're not.

 

Sometimes Russia are the good guys......sometimes they're not.

 

Right now they're not.

 

 

Excellent synopsis.  Oh, how positions shift when they become expedient ...

On 3/8/2022 at 10:49 AM, crazykopite said:

I agree with everything you say and yes I feel for those Russians who are holed up around the world unable to get funds or use there credit/debit cards due to the actions of a madman. The Russian citizens are the only people who can remove this evil by going onto the streets in there millions even if Putin is defeated in this invasion / war as long as he is in power as President the sanctions will remain and the only people who will suffer are the citizens of Russia . Putin will still have a warm place to sleep , and plenty of food this guy has stolen billions from his own people it’s time for them to have an uprising and get rid of him 

And the oloigarchs (many in the UK) who helped him get there, knowing their nests would be well feathered as a reward.  

22 hours ago, harada said:

Just going by the saying, it’s all in the eyes, from what I’ve seen of Putin lately, I think he might be heading for Siberia in a straight jacket before long. 

More like in a coffin, if the speculation about his health is correct.  

22 hours ago, Henryford said:

Who do you think are killing Ukranian women and children. Not the Russian Government it's Russian people.

Spot on, and not always under duress either.  

@mokwit  @MarkyM3

Many thanks for your technical contributions, chaps and when I've re-read them about 6 more times I will respond!  ????

I have tried half a dozen times or more to get my free testosterone checked in Thailand and have been told the same number of times that they don't test for it here, only total testosterone.   I read something above about calculating it from total test, but I speed-read both posts and only got the gist.

The thing is, I am due to see the andropause doc again on Tuesday next week, the 31st, so I would like to get some ducks in a row beforehand.  

What's a 'must test for' that I haven't already had?  (It's probably been mentioned in one of your posts, but could we make a list of what else to check?

The other interesting thing is the mention of bone density because I was told about 11 or 12 years ago that I have osteopenia, and take 1500 mgs calcium and Vit D twice daily.

I had a back X-ray the other week and that has deteriorated since the last one 3 years ago, but that's mainly cartilage thinning - but even I immediately noticed my spine was now not straight and has started to curve to the right slightly.  I did have the L5 vertebra slightly misplaced 3 years ago but that has now expended to the L4 and the L2 and L3 are going too.
I don't have a lot of back pain though.  A twinge here and there, but then again I've lost a total of about 55 kgs in the last 4 years which must have helped, at least somewhat.

Let me digest all the stuff you've sent and thanks again for your help.  

On 8/20/2021 at 9:02 AM, rott said:

I would imagine that instead of devoting 90% of his spare time to doing good works amongst the deserving poor he will increase that to 100%.

 

I would make so bold as to suggest that he assists me in a few projects such as giving cello lessons to the disadvantaged and to long term prisoners. Also teaching expats that there is no apostrophe in a plural and that could of and should of should be could have and should have. 

When one door closes in life, another opens. 

Time for my pill. 

I just carry on doing my bits of part time teaching English and hence assist Thais in bettering their life.  

If I could play the cello, maybe I would help you with that too.

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

What are you going to do , when all of these things

no longer work ,it will happen.will you be able to accept it.

regards Worgeordie

Nowt really te dee wi' ye, is it, wor kid?  

It's been gannin' alang for a geet few months noo, marra, 'n' Aa've pretty well accepted what's gannin' on by noo.  

Just is lang as Aa kin get a bit uh legower once a week, Aa'm happy.  Ye canna change gettin' owld, but ye kin at least try t' slow things doon.  

Just now, rott said:

I do beg your pardon it was the Sidegra that caught my attention, they are the ones that came from a hospital pharmacy. 

No problem.  ????

Yes, Sidegra are 250 baht at the Nana pharmacy I use, but at the hospital they were only something like 152 baht.  They worked well too!  ????

On 8/16/2021 at 5:03 AM, MarkyM3 said:

Hi Misterfixit....

 

I have been on TRT in the UK for the last 3 years so have some experience of the highs and lows of it.  I am currently using Nebido (have also done gels, which are a PITA ultimately and gave me skin problems). Fortunately, it's laid on free via the UK NHS (public health service) though I pay plenty of taxes so quid pro quo! 

 

Some of the indicators your endo should be monitoring are not on that list. For example, to calculate free testosterone (i.e. available to bind to androgen receptors), it's done using raw testosterone plus SHBG and Albumin figures iirc. Can't see either of the latter 2 on there. 

 

E2 (oestrogen),  PSA (possible indicator of prostrate issues ahead) and haematocrit ratio (blood thickness), are important and can see those there. If E2 gets too high, Anastrozole can be introduced to lower it (but can cause problems). Prolactin should be on there but isn't. 

 

Your figures are all in imperial measurements so I'd need to translate to the reference ranges I see when I do my bloods.

 

Also - not sure of your age and this may not matter but be prepared to see your balls shrink and ejaculate reduce. This apparently can be counteracted by HGC but isn't offered in the UK NHS. Am thinking of using a private doctor to get this looked at because I'm 50, unmarried and still might want to have kids in the next couple of years. 

 

Shoot me a PM if you like and I can fish out my previous results to see if there's anything else to mention.

Sorry for the delay in replying to your post and PM.  There's been too much going on.

Not too sure about them being Imperial measurements, which are UK.  Thai hospitals tend to use US measurements.  But I'm not familiar enough yet with all of them to be 100% sure of what's what.

I don't have a range for the E2 so I don't know if what is in that report above is high, low or average.  It just says 46.90 pg/mL (which suggests a metric measurement).  Do you know what the range should be?  I have read conflicting reports. 

How did you find the Nebido injections?  I have heard they take up to 4 minutes to do!  ????

And I'm 72.   I'll reply to your PM later.   Maybe better to keep it that way because I've asked about this quite a lot over the last few months and I'm probably boring people by now!  ????

2 hours ago, rott said:

Which hospital pharmacy sells these magical Cialis as described in the OP.? 

I didn't buy the Cialis from there, I got them from a small pharmacy near Nana.  I said that in the OP.  

But Phramongkutklao, the Army hospital near Victory Monument have them but they cost 472 baht each and as you can buy them at pharmacies around Nana for 2,000 baht for a strip of 4, so just go there.  Much easier.

I doubt you'd get in to the Army hospital.  I was wangled in by an old girlfriend, an Army nurse there about 11 years ago.  Then a few years later, an old student who happened to be a nurse there heard my ancient knees cracking and got her husband, also a doctor there, to refer me to the orthopaedics department.  I am very happy with my treatment there in all  the departments I have been to. 

On 8/14/2021 at 3:56 PM, mikecha said:

where can you buy this

Any pharmacy, maybe even 7/11.  

On 8/14/2021 at 3:42 PM, spidermike007 said:

Walked away from the big pharma poison pills years ago. Since then used either Bali Mojo, or Gracku. The latter is amazing. Please do not start with the FDA warnings. They are total nonsense. The FDA is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, and one of their sole purposes is to support the drug companies and deny the benefits of anything natural. They are basically a drug company mafia, as we have seen with the Covid vaccines.

 

 

 

 

Tried this once, complete rubbish for me.  All it did was give me indigestion which put me off sex.

Also I would say it didn't give me a full erection, maybe a 75% to 80%-er and it didn't last long.