bradiston

5 hours ago, topt said:

 

As has been mentioned many times State and personal pensions are excluded from the UK/Thai DTA so potentially taxable.....

Mentioned where?

5 hours ago, couchpotato said:

I want to know what you are talking about and are you going to fix it.

Duh!

Are schools now teaching these deplorable forms of want to and going to? I see it all the time in Thai use of English. How many English speakers use these forms in written English? Maybe in spoken occasionally, but not as a rule.

I wouldn't be surprised there was an undeclared quota system for the primary schools. They're streamed into manual labour and low paid jobs from an early age. Essentially, written off for skills training or anything requiring an intellect. Kids from Issan are just factory fodder.

So Chaiyapreuk will become completely undrivable going east, and Beach Rd also, going north. And Second Rd going North. In short, avoid Jomtien. Early March to November? Add another 24 months on to that.

Time to initiate Park and Ride scheme I proposed 6 months ago. 50 THB per vehicle includes song taew 10 THB ride down to the beach.

Think it means the "Public Relations Centre" on your map.

Why isn't the Ministry of Transport responsible for these figures? Not some quasi almost non Governmental department (a neo quango) that seem to be all the rage here. Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation? The Minister of Transport, Suriya Juangroongruangkit, is Thanatorn's uncle. He's been in politics since the Stone Age. What's the plan, uncle Juan?

https://th.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/กรมป้องกันและบรรเทาสาธารณภัย

A totally nebulous department with no proper outline of it's functions and responsibilities, like so many Thai government departments. Much better suited to the task would be the Office of the National Accident Prevention Commission, but that seems to have been shut down. No links in Wikipedia. But just what is the much vaunted "Office of the Prime Minister". This Byzantine office probably has thousands on its books, but what do they all do?

https://th.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/สำนักงานปลัดสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี

Isn't Yore part of a computer game?

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Cult_of_Yore

3 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

This controversial temple has been flying under the radar since the sensational 23-day siege in 2017, in an attempt by the military Junta to arrest Abbot Phra Dhammajayo.

 

He is still MIA.

 

 

 

 

I was on a song taew with a group of monks around the time of his mysterious disappearing act. I said right out I didn't believe he was still in the temple, and had done a runner. One of the monks swore blind (well, not exactly) that he was still there. But no. Vanished. Just like that. It was a truly weird episode.

It's what she's paid for.

For Döner, the best still have the steering wheel poking out. (Courtesy Jack Dee).

9 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

These smart watch ECG's are not meant to be a replacement for a proper cardiologist administered one, but do provide a good check if you feel you have a problem, or just do one regularly for monitoring over time.  I have a Samsung Galaxy Watch 6, which does a good job of recording these, as well as tracking my pulse rate, and a few other parameters, continually.

 

For example, I awoke one night last September with a pounding heart beat, which seemed to be irregular, and did a quick ECG, as below.  I had been under some stress around then, and through slow breathing I was able to calm down and get rid of the extra beat, but, due to the watch ECG, the following day I was able to show my cardiologist (who is treating me for hypertension) exactly what I experienced.  She gave me a full ECG, but my heart was beating normally, and has continued to do so since then.  This was no doubt caused by the stress I was under at the time, and I am controlling it (as best I can) however, if it had have been a symptom of a more serious issue, being able to get a recording of my heart beat at that time could have been invaluable.

 

 

All others I have done on my watch appear to be normal:

 

Thanks. You were able to run an ECG while still experiencing your heart problems. Mine is all over in a couple of seconds, so running an ECG after it happens I don't think would be of much use. I do think your print out is extremely impressive though. Do you run the data through an app on your phone? My readings always show gaps in the beat. That's afib! I don't normally notice them, and they don't cause me any discomfort. Until I get a really major one. Then, it's really quite alarming.

1 hour ago, DudleySquat said:

 

I am always amazed at the ignorant statements made so easily when I give you a YouTube video that goes over this feature in detail. 

 

I'm sure you are an expert hence leaving nonsense posts about YouTube.  

Maybe you can give me the exact location within the 33 minute video. I've read reviews of the Galaxy watches elsewhere, and believe me, there is no way they can continuously run an ECG test. It'll maybe monitor BPM, but that's not the same thing. If it suspects you might have afib symptoms, it will alert you and you can then test using the ECG app.

In any case I already know I have afib. I need to listen for the anomaly I experience when my heart appears to stop and restart. The exact causes of that the doctors cannot diagnose without real time data. It's impossible for me to capture the data as it's over in a matter of seconds. So I need continuous ECG. Only specialized medical devices can provide that. The Holter is out of the question, but there are several other devices, but they come at a cost.

I'm seeing the neurologist tomorrow who got me into thinking a smart watch was the answer, and I jumped at it as it seemed like a godsend. But my cardiologist, his colleague, laughed at the suggestion. A BPM print out is of no use to him at all. And as for smart watches? Forget it, he said.

53 minutes ago, DudleySquat said:

https://youtu.be/zqmRWcjCZSg

 

The watch will look for afib even if you sleep. 

 

 

It's impossible. To do an ECG scan you need at least one finger on a pickup point for 30 seconds. ECG is not a heart rate monitor, which just returns BPM. Don't believe a thing you see or read on YouTube. Everything's fake there.

It's interesting but the cardiologist says BPM is of no use to him. He needs to record the event I experience only very occasionally. But thanks, all the same. It still looks interesting.

I had to go in for an appointment with my eye doctor and called on the cardiologist. I asked him if the data from a continuous heart rate monitor was of any use to him at all. No. Beats per minute aren't going to tell him anything. He went through my options. Holter, mini Holter (similar to a patch), or a small implant that costs between 100,000 and 150,000 which he showed me. So it appears smart watches arent worth pursuing in my case.

I give up.

46 minutes ago, retarius said:

It i9s absolutely nothing to do with slavery. All these silly comparisons need to stop. They are there to make the problems appear to be worse than they are and to sell more newspapers or get more clicks. Sickening and idiotic. When the court cases come up will the defendants be charged with 'slavery' or 'usury'?

It is loan sharking or usury, not slavery, for goodness' sake. It is not difficult to understand. 

The end result is enslavement to a debt you probably will never be able to pay. People say "But it's voluntary." Yes, volunteered slavery when there is no alternative. Like "voluntary exile" or anything else purporting to be voluntary when it's not. The arrogance of people who say "Well, you didn't have to sign", when you have no choice. Oh yeah, there's always a choice they say. If there was a choice, who in their right mind would sign up to these insane terms? The lenders prey on the desperate. They know their customers.

7 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

Brad, firstly, your doctor seems to be an idiot.

 

Yes, viagra and the others increase blood flow, but to the extremities only, your heart and organs actually suffer from a loss of blood pressure, which you already have, so these drugs lower it further, putting you at risk of heart attack.

 

Change your doctor.  Secondly, I too suffer from these things that you call the heart stopping for a while and restarting with a jolt, and it usually happens after heavy drinking, for me.

 

I too, suffer from low blood pressure, and therefore, I stay well away from the wee wee enhancers, it is not good for those of us with low BP.

 

My blood pressure has never been a problem, and at the BPH they check it every time you visit.

A heart rate monitor just monitors BPM, and an ECG monitor checks for the regularity of the heart beat, amongst other things. But a print out of either is essential for a medical professional to be able to assess your heart's performance/condition.

I just tried setting up an account on the Fitbit app. Google,who bought Fitbit, wants permission to use all your medical data gathered by the device. I bailed out at that point. They've got to be kidding.

But as I said, there is a user written app that Fitbit users recommend. But you can hardly try before you buy. So it's just a shot in the dark as to whether this thing is going to be of any use.

I'm seeing my doctor in a few days. I'll press him on what it is he's looking for. Right now, it's hard to see the wood for the trees.

On 12/29/2023 at 5:41 PM, CharlieH said:

Huawei have their onw "health" app. My device is Huawei, its not certified etc but when checked with a Drs surgery heart rate monitor it was identical readings. I wear it daily, step count, activity tracker etc. It monitors ny heart rate whilst sleeping, whilst exercising etc and warns me when I push too far and when I can resume. It does what it says on the tin. It suits my needs but it is NOT a medical device.

And how about uploading the heart rate data?

On 12/30/2023 at 1:01 PM, BigStar said:

 

I'll just throw out a speculation, which you or someone can verify or shoot down, based on my limited experience w/ a smart watch that I decided I didn't need.

 

Presumably you have an app on the phone that tracks the monitoring on your watch, connected via Bluetooth. The watch doesn't store the raw data but sends it to the app. The app then records it over time and stores it on the phone or possibly in the cloud, if enabled. A good app would offer some analysis.

 

So you turn on the monitoring and it stays on until you turn it off, on the watch. With mine, you couldn't do anything else w/ the watch while it was monitoring something. That is, for example, you couldn't tell time. ;)

 

Despite all the sneering here, I found my cheap smartwatch pretty accurate, close enough to be sufficiently indicative. Your neurologist suggested it and he knows what he's talking about.

 

 

A number of Fitbit devices do continuous heart beat monitoring. But from what I've read, you need a 3rd party app to download the data to an external device. And believe it or not, the ECG functionality only works in a limited number of countries, none in Asia. Still I shall press on.

31 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

I'll just throw out a speculation, which you or someone can verify or shoot down, based on my limited experience w/ a smart watch that I decided I didn't need.

 

Presumably you have an app on the phone that tracks the monitoring on your watch, connected via Bluetooth. The watch doesn't store the raw data but sends it to the app. The app then records it over time and stores it on the phone or possibly in the cloud, if enabled. A good app would offer some analysis.

 

So you turn on the monitoring and it stays on until you turn it off, on the watch. With mine, you couldn't do anything else w/ the watch while it was monitoring something. That is, for example, you couldn't tell time. ;)

 

Despite all the sneering here, I found my cheap smartwatch pretty accurate, close enough to be sufficiently indicative. Your neurologist suggested it and he knows what he's talking about.

 

 

Sure, but to take an ECG reading you usually need to place at least one finger on some part of the watch which acts as a data gatherer, for around 30 seconds. But I take your point about the link to an app. I'll pursue that.

And my neurologist, however good at neurology, made a complete mess of my insurance claim, which, as it turned out, was pointless in any case. I won't go into details but he really screwed it up. It's possible I'll lose all cover, whereas before this I was 16 months through a 24 month moratorium on pre existing conditions.

I've come to realise there's no way a smart watch can do what I want, which is continuous heartbeat monitoring. But I did find a method for doing this. It consists of a patch applicable to the patient's chest. Totally unobtrusive. I've no idea why this isn't used more widely. Like many new(ish) technologies, they're expensive at about $500 each, (but 7,000 THB on eBay) and only single use, over 2 weeks. So monitoring a month might set you back ~15,000 THB. That's without the analysis service.

https://www.irhythmtech.com/providers/zio-service/zio-monitors

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/tiny-patch-powering-big-data-is-changing-the-way-we-monitor-heartbeats.html

For me, at that price, a last resort. Maybe in future the price will come down.

Anyway, that's me signing off.

14 minutes ago, DudleySquat said:

Try Cialis instead. It works for 36 hours and will lower your blood pressure.  You can take 5mg after the first 20mg, and if you take it daily, the drug never wears off and will lower BP. 

 

It's a big win. 

I use kamagra jelly and have a large supply of it from overseas. It seems to suit me.

1 hour ago, DudleySquat said:

I don't have heart issues. I am at an age where I could. My father went into afib at least once a month on a holiday. I don't know how afib feels. He usually knew without a monitor that he was in afib.

 

 

It's pretty constant but you don't notice it necessarily. The doctor showed me my print out. It was normal for a short time then flat. Another scan they do is like a pregnancy scan. Not sure what it's called. Echo cardiogram maybe. But it shows you your heart beating on screen. From the test they can get readings of the volume of blood being pumped. Mine was way down but improved with the meds. They say now it's satisfactory at around 60%. If you feel knackered most of the time, I figure it could be because your heart isn't pumping efficiently. But all these tests you need to go in for. Maybe once every 6 months is enough. I've lived with afib for about 10 years. Just look after yourself and it's hardly noticeable. I don't drink or smoke. My doctor said Viagra was not a problem. It increases the blood flow, especially to parts other meds can't reach, as we know! I'll keep looking at these watches. Not sure if they'd be any use to me though. Thanks to everyone who answered. It's cleared my rather muddled thinking!

Just now, DudleySquat said:

 

That is exactly what I wrote earlier.

Err, really?