Sheryl

An A1c of 6.0 - 6.2 is very good for a diabetic. Usual aim in management of diabetes is to stay below 7.0. OP with fruit it very much depends on what type of fruit and the quantity (half a kilo a day does sound rather a lot). Berries, apples, oranges are comparatively low on the glycemic index. You can google "glycemic index fruit " to compare. The form of the fruit matters, you talk about "mixed chopped fruit", I'm not sure what you mean by that, but fruit that has been processed will have less fiber (important to blood sugar regulation) and the more minced/chopped a piece of fruit is beforehand, the more rapidly its sugar will be released. Eating whole fruits would be better. Also matters what else you eat at the same time as this can affect the speed with which sugars are absorbed. If you are eating fruit by itself as your breakfast, not a great idea. Taken with greek yogurt or other foods that contain both protein and fat would be wiser. AS other poster suggested you can assess how specific foods sre affecting you by doing home blood test after meals. Thete is certainly no need to completely avoid all fruits but a half kilo of minced/chopped fruit every day at one sitting does seem excessive....and not consistent with the good original advice given by your doctor.

If you uave nouts of extetnal otitis it wouod be readily apparent to doctor (visible redness and inflammation) but I gather doctor did not see anything? Were you examined by doctor while this was going on? If all this is the case (examined by doctor while experiencing this, doctor saw no redness or inflammation) then best I can suggest is to rule out TMJ pain, which can occur around the ear. For that, this doctor: https://www.medparkhospital.com/en-US/doctors/dr-nattakarn-hosiriluck-dds If preferred she can also be seen at https://www.thantakit.com/ (Dental clinic) Or at Mahidol dental clinic

Some Imm offices refuse to accept online reports. Mine does (and not coincidentally demands a bribe to accept them in person).

Usually they do, yes. But that does nto preclude an autopsy especially if tissue and blood samples are taken first and sent with the body.

Name of surgeon, please? And did it turn out to be a DVT?

Fine, but historically corononers in UK have conducted inquiries on deaths of otherwise young and health people abroad, if the body was available to them to do so.

Peace of mind, hopefully. Thai autopsies are typically very uninformative, to say the least. And if there was a life insurance policy, the manner of death (eg suicide vs accident/foul play)could determine whether or not it pays out.

Possible that they want a UK coroner inquery.

When you say earache can you be more specific? Inner or outer ear? If Doctor says no sign of infection then I wonder if it is actually not an ear problem at all but something like TMJ pain so please describe pain location as exactly as you can, the specialists differ.

Thailand is not much for disrase support groups and certainly would not havecone gor domething this uncommon. (ALS prevs)alence here is lower than in the West). This US-trained doctor has some exoerience with it: https://www.medparkhospital.com/en-US/doctors/dr-narupat-suanprasert

Litmus strips test pH, so I assume that is not what you actually mean. There are urine test strips that measure glucose in the urine. They are indeed inexpensive but of limited use since glucose in the urine reflects prior blood levels not necessarily current ones. They are also a single point in time test, and if one wants that it makes more sense to just do a home blood glucose test. But the whole point of OP is that he wants not a one-time test of blood glucose but the more meaningful test of a 3 month average.

Be advised that this video was misleading at the time it was made and is now more than a decade out of date. It's contents are not factual. Many lives can be, and are, saved through early diagnosis and treatment of aggressive prostate cancers. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. And a particularly painful type of death. It is well worth avoiding this. Considerable advances in diagnosis and treatment have occurred i nthe past decade and PSA is just an initial screening test. It does nto immediately lead to biopsy.

A post referring source of inaccurate information has been removed, as has a post on moderation.

Nowadays biopsies are not done based on PSA test alone. If indicated, there are additional blood tests that can be done and special MRIs. Urine cultures can also help rule a prostate infection in or out. In some individual cases, if there is a high index of suspicion for prostatitis, a doctor might opt to treat presumptively for infection first and then repeat the PSA later. A PSA result is not a positive or negative, it is a number on a scale. This number must be viewed in the clinical context. For example, a mildly elevated PSA in an older man with known BPH is an altogether different matter than a very elevated PSA in a younger man. Ditto a highre PSA in a man with risk factors for infection. The rate of rise in a PSA is also of significance. A stable PSA that is just a bit elevated is very different from a steadily rising PSA...especially since the aim is not to find all prostate cancers but rather to find clinically significant prostate cancers (i.e. aggressive cancers as opposed to slow growing) , a very different matter. PSA just screens and potentially signals the need for additional tests. Has to be interpreted in the overall patient context: age, known prostate conditions, trend in PSA level, findings on digital exam etc.

The reference -- to which you failed to post a link -- is not to an article by the Guardian but rather a letter in its letters volumn. Which contains outdated content. The Guardian as a paper does not recommrnd against the PSA test. PSA is a useful screening tool but not in itself diagnostic.

Leaving in 2 weeks, probably not enough time to do a root canal much less get the subsequent crown. I've had a number of root canals over the years, all involved 3 - 5 sessions each at least a week apart, followed by insertion of post and fitting for a crown. Over a month for the whole thing.

There isn't any way to file and declare a remittance non-assessable. In fact the relevant form section is labelled "Assessable Income". So (assuming no other, assessable, remittances) not filing seems the only realistic option. If and when questioned, explain the funds are from pre-2024 savings and thus non assessable.

Very helpful, thank you

Is Petchabun the nearest provincial town or are you closer to Lopburi? Google shows 2 private medical labs in Petchabun town not far from the hospital. I don't know anything about them, you'd want to verify they do real Hb1ac not use handheld device. (Often these sort of provincial labs send things out to the hodpital through a sort of privste arrangement). There'd be no wait and no need to arrive early morning. Hb1ac does not require fasting. Cost probably a few hundred baht and no need to do very often, every 3-6 months is fine.

How would this be considered expenses? Doesn't make sense Expenses are costs incurred in earning income. ???? This eoulf be an allowance or exemption not an expense.

Yes I have seen those but can't find anything ftom the RD.

Nrw question: does anyone have a link to an official source stating there is a 100k pension allowance/exemptikn? Gets mentioned in various places but I csn't find it in any RD publication nor a space for it on any tax form.

Again, where are you located? Might be able to do this at a private lab.

As OP has diabetes, moved to the main health forum. As you seem to realize, the preferred test is the Hb1ac which is a measure of average blood glucose over a 3 month period (and thus is usually done at 3-6 month intervals depending on how stable it is.) Unfortnately the hand held meters for Hb1ac are, in my experience, very unreliable. Best to have it done at a hospital or (large) lab. Where in Thailand are you and what hospital do you use? If it is a government hospital that you rely on for inexpensive medications you may have to put up with their system even if also getting periodic Hb1ac elsewhere . Note that while the Hb1ac is best overall measure of blood sugar control, there is still a need for onetime blood sugar monitoring in some situations e.g. if on insuln or if oral medication dose has been recently adjusted. ..or experiencing possible symptoms of hypoglycemia. In contrast to the Hb1ac, hand held meters to test blood sugar are accurate and readily available, Accucheck being recommended brand.

First of all - under the Netherlands - Thai DTA, is this pension income assessable in Thailand? If not, you do nto need to file at all unless you have other assessable income, in which case file declaring only that. I find it hard to believe you can't get any sort of receipt from the Dutch government for taxes paid. As far as the issue of documents being in Dutch, IF you have more than 60,000 baht in assessable pension income (120k if married), can get a translation to Thai done by a translation company and certified by the ministry of Foreign Affairs. See the 4th post in this thread https://aseannow.com/topic/1209432-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-translation-guarantee/ for the process. Alternatively can get a private translations service to translate to English and stamp it, that might be what the RD really means when they say "verified", translation services affix a stamp to the translations they do.