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Sheryl

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  1. Illegal as has already been explained.
  2. Controlled substance. No Thai pharmacy will supply this online. Illegal and serious consequences to order by mail from abroad.
  3. Seriously illegal to import a controlled substance by mail. Do not even think of it.
  4. Oral prednisolone is not available without prescription in Thailand. Nor should it ever be self-prescribed as it is a very serious medication.
  5. He us apparently in Bangkok. OP there is a government psych hospital which will cost very little. But chances of getting this without some sort of medical record from Singapore aren't great. https://www.spph.go.th/
  6. What you describe is specific to Pattaya and othrr places with heavy farang presence. Upcountry absolutely everyone is masked and a lone maskless foreigner definitely causes a negative reaction.
  7. Very, very little mask wearing in Cambodia now. But while Angkor Wat is a great visit I'm not sure how much there is to do for a 2 year old.
  8. It is never possible to do what you want to do (get a prescription once and then keep going to hospital pharmacy). Doesn't work that way here. Nor does a prescription from Singapore have any validity here. Your best bet is to get a letter/medical summary from your doctor on Singapore explaining diagnosis, why this medication and why this large a dosage. Then take that to a psychatrist here. Not just any doctor but a psychiatrist. You will still have to have repeat doctor visits for every refill but might possibly be able to get a 2-4 week supply each time if the doctor accepts the diagnosis and recommended treatment from your doctor in Singapore.
  9. Where in Thailand are you located?
  10. BP machine will only detect AF at the time you take your BP, not continuously which is what OP needs as his issue is episodic. Similarly devices that record an EKG on demand, do nto monitor continuously. OP tgere are apps that run on Samsung smart watches https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00087703/
  11. It is a continuous runny nose over a long time . So does nto sound like dust or hay fever. Morel likely nasal polyp.
  12. See an ENT
  13. Pfizer is only 4 week interval.
  14. Have you had a recenf blood test (fasting sugar or HB1ac)? Any possibility you have HIV? HIV and diabetes are common reasons for fungal infections that don't respond to treatment.
  15. This. It is possible it is nto fungal this time but something else. Also is it possible you are diabetic? As that makes healing fungal infections more challenging, especially if blood sugar is nto well controlled.
  16. I am not aware of any. What country is it that accepts only J&J??
  17. Dr. Anna does not use Fotofinder (or at least did nto when last I saw her, admittedly some years ago). If she now does cost will surely be more as the equipment is costly. When I saw her it was just a (thorough) visual inspection
  18. I use https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-forms which is an IRS site. Used it for years with no problem and with my Thai address.
  19. It is the 2 - 6 month interval that is the barrier for me. I could do 6 werks and I could fo 11-12 months but 2-6 is impossible. I only go back once a year.
  20. As said before it depends on the size and depth of excison needed as that in turn would shape the surgical approach. With 3 locations, even if each individually could be done under local (which we do not know yet) it might make more sense, and cost same or less, to just do whole thing in OR under sedation. In which case either a daysurgery or 1 night stay. Best guess, around 50-60k (including pathology) if they go that route. If done in office under local might need 3 separate procedures at about 15-20 k each. But these are very rough estimates. There is a government dermatology hospital in Bangkok which would cost much less but involve several visits just to get excision scheduled with lots of wait time and red tape (in Thai) and you'd want a Thai speaker to help you navigate the system. https://www.iod.go.th/clinic-and-treatment/คลินิกพิเศษนอกเวลาราชก# While it has many specialty clinics there is none for skin cancers(which alone tells you something). It has an after hours clinic where for about 500 baht you can see a senior doctor (otherwise you will be treated mostly by interns and redidents in training) and that is where you should go if you decide to try there -- ask nurses for an acharn (professor) with exerience treating melanoma. Personally if it were me, given the seriousness and need for really accurate path reports I would either go back to Oz or go to Dr. Anna (and any surgeon she might refer to).
  21. There are no such facilities in Thailand, GP or otherwise. A world of difference. Skin cancer is very common in Oz, very rare here. In Oz as well as anywhere else, with melanoma the area that needs to be excised can sometimes be lareg and deep enough to warrant general anesthesia. Depends entirely on the individual case. And in Oz and elsewhere, if there is concern about scarring a plastic surgeon may be needed. Possible neither is true in your case, but it can be in others.
  22. I can say it based on some 30 years experience with health care ibn Thailand, my own, that of friends and feedback from peopel on this board. I have directly consulted several of the doctors in question. In no possible way does simply having been trained in MOHs mean one is a skin cancer removal specialists. The only pre-requisite is being a dermatologist. "skin cancer removal specialist" is not a recognized medical specialty. While in Australia and most other Western countries, any dermatologist (unless solely involved in cosmetic work) will have had experience with skin cancers, and most general surgeons and plastic surgeons will have had experience removing melanomas, this is not at all the case in Thailand. Pathologists also have limited expereince in the area and I have seen a lot of path mistakes here. That should be your main concern. If you could get this done almost free in Oz, and airfare is about US $1,000 I doubt you will save much money by trying to treat this in private hospitals here and you may well end up spending more, with less assurrance of quality.
  23. Any supermarket. Tops, Big C, Lotus etc. (not sure of brand, but they have both stewed prunes and, usuallky, prune juice).
  24. If Dr. R referred you to MRI clinic then 1.5 Tesla should be fine. I believe the purpose is just to exclude any other neurological causes or structural anomslies.
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