Sheryl

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What stage is your cancer? Is there any metastasis?

Has the wrist pain been diagnosed as due to psoriatic arthritis? If so you may need systemic treatment and should consult a rheumatologist. Topical treatments will not address psoriatic arthritis. If the cause of the wrist pain has not been diagnosed start with an orthopedic surgeon.

There is no way for an expat to get under the Universal scheme. It is for Thai citizens and migrant workers from neighboring countries only.

What you may be thinking of is that people who have SS and retire or stop working can continue it on a self pay basis. This option has to be taken within 6 months of stopping work. I do not understand your statment that you don't have DS because of your age. If you started working before age 60 and are still employed then regardless of your vurrent sge you should have SS unless you work for a private school that opts not to participate in SS.

If your only reason for going is to get a new passport, you should be able to do that ftom Thailand.

If it is a single entry O (as oppilosed to O-A) visa it doesn't expire in May, it already expired when you first used it. More likely what you have is an extension of stay through next May. Make sure you have a re-entry permit before leaving the country or it will be invalidated. When you return give both passports to airport immigration. Assuming you gave a re-entry permit, they will stamp you in with permission to stay through May. You then go to your local immigration office to get the re-entry permit, extension of stay and reference to original visa copied into the new passport. They nay require that you (or your landlord) file a TM30 first.

Pacemakers are indicated when thrre are specific, ongoing abnormalities in the heart rhythm. Never done because of an isolated incident during surgery (though you should certainly make doctors aware of this if you ever need surgery or a procedure under sedation). Odds are what happened is that you went into ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation (probably the former if a blow to the chest resolved it)and it may gave been related to the anesthetic agent. Nothing you have said suggests a need for a pacemaker. However the cause of your CHF needs to be ascertained and addressed. Depending on what it is, specific interventions for that might be indicated. Since you prefer Bangkok hospital I recommend you consult https://www.bangkokhearthospital.com/en/doctor/dr-chanwit-wuttichaipradit-2 Bring all your records with you

Why a pacemaker or defibrillator? These do not treat CHF. Must be more to the diagnosis?

The issue is not so much a reputable hematologist (plenty of those in BKK) but to find one with experience treating CLL, which is rare in Thais. The following are suggested: https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/narin-voravud https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/narongsak-kiatikajornthada https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/surasit-saleh issarachai Treatment here will be very expensive due to the high cost of the drugs which are all imported. If returning to your home country for initial care is an option, I would advise it. You can then get follow up monitoring in Thailand but avoid the huge drug cost.

Not in my experience. A bill is sent, which one may or may nto receive. By second billing cycle, power is cut. Period. No warnings.

Actually, in Thailand it usually does. Not even a second notice given. Common for people to have their power shut off due to not getting the bill. One has to be very vigilant in keeping tabs on this.

Unless you have a terminal disease, cannot assume this. Lots of people say this and are still around in 15-20 years. The important thing to keep in mind is that metastatic prostate cancer usually goes to the bone which can be extremely painful. Even in the very elderly there is a definite advantage to avoiding this scenario. And if it occurs, a definite advantage (in terms of minimizing suffering) to catching it as early as possible.

This study was limited to men aged 50 and over with low and intermediate grade cancers only. Not applicable to aggressive cancers or cancers in younger men. Naturally, when dealing with slow growing cancers in older men (whose odds of dying of something else are comparatively high anyhow) the effect of treatment on mortality is going to be quite different than it will be in men who are younger/have aggressive cancers. You may also have an exaggerated impression of the consequences of surgery. Newer, nerve-sparing robotic techniques have pretty low rates of long-term incontinence etc. (Short term, yes, but long term is Different). Meanwhile an untreated prostate cancer will, in itself, have you in nappies sooner or later. But please wait for the biopsy results. This will not only tell you if malignant but also - if it is malignant - how aggressive. You can then have detailed consultations with specialists to determine pros and cons of different approaches in your specific case. "Dr. Google" cannot provide that.

Since this thread has regenerated into predictable anti-vax nonsense, it is closed.

The recommended age for vaccination is 11 or 12 but can be later provided the girl is not yet sexually active. It needs to be given prior to exposure.

Or just stressed thst this can be pre--cancerous and she heard only the word cancer.

These are strictly controlled drugs and it is completely illegal for a pharmacy to sell them.

https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/consultants/mr-miles-a-goldstraw once you have biopsy results, and if they show malignancy

I have personally seen people die, horribly, as a direct result of refusing COVID vaccination. Including an AN board member, greatly influenced by online misinformation. He did not refuse vaccination out of selfishness but out of fear brought on by anti-vax propaganda.

At your comparatively young age, and assuming a localized cancer, main choice would be between prostatectomy and radiation. And within thise categories there are additional choicese.g. conventional vs robotic surgery, widebeam radiation vs. Implants (brachytherapy). Precise biopsy findings would help guide this. And indeed since you don't yet have biopsy result, possible you do not even have cancer. If results come back malignant suggest you get more than one opionion in UK. Note that possible to get consultation privately, you don't have to limit yourself to NHS for that. (Indeed, even private treatment in UK is similar to costs of private care in Thailand.) Where in UK are you?

No, I do not. In Thailand there is very little awareness of ADHD in adults, even among health professionals.

No brand of this available in Thailand

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I recently flew Air India r/t Bkk-Birmingham-Bkk. Business Class for the Delhi-Birmingham section both ways; economy Bkk-Delhi then business class on the return. The cost difference between economy and business class on AI is much less than itr is on most carriers and, to my surprise, the comforts & service on the Delhi-Birmingham leg was superb, in fact best I have experienced. In addition they sometimes auction off business class upgrades in the last few days before departure, at a disocunt. The Bkk-Delhi stretch is pretty bad with business class only ya marginal improvement. And the transfer process in Delhi is a hassle. This last is the biggest downside IMO.