nephron

Contrary to what amykat says, I've not had any problems buying clothes in Thailand that I'm comfortable with, whether casual or work. I'm 27, 5'7" and about a US 6-8. If I was much bigger it'd be hard though. I have larger feet though (US10) and shoes are just about impossible.

Eutroxig, which is also known as thyroxine, should be stored in the fridge for long-term storage. However, it can be taken out of the fridge for a month if stored at "room temperature" below 25C (according to the Australian product labelling). Thai temperatures frequently exceed this, so I imagine you might need to shorten that if you are storing it somewhere much hotter.

Probably best to remain on the medication that you are stable on than switching to something unknown to your body.

I think you should do a general detox first.

There are a few detox programs you can buy in the pharmacy and that would be a good starting point.

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There is no reason to do a detox if your liver and kidneys are working- detoxifying your body is one of their primary jobs, and something they do continuously and very efficiently. If you truly needed a detox it'd probably be something you've heard of before- "dialysis".

Trust your body to do its basic functions.

I think what you are saying to do is probably a reasonable place to start. I think people often aim very high when starting, keep it up for a week or two, and then stop adhering to it. But 15 min of warmup and 15 min of real exercise isn't going to achieve huge amounts (still better than nothing, so if you think that's all you'll stick to, go for it), so if you're able to build from that it would improve your results.

Starting off slowly is a good thing though.

I know the physio department of the hospital I work at was recommending weight training for elderly women to build bone mass density, so I don't think it should be a problem for a 55 year old!

As for Thailand not having anything to offer the luxury traveller, I think my doctor would have something to say about that. He is primarily a high-end traveller and he absolutely raves about Thailand- the spectacular boutique hotels, food (and I don't mean street stalls), amazing high-end tailors (one of whom he has a standing-order to have suits made even when he's in Australia- and they really are truly lovely suits). He has been back several times and has plans to return.

Maybe you just can't conceive of a luxury Thailand because you haven't tried it?

Is there s secret backpacker society who communicate with each other? and i really doubt any country is dying to have the backpackers, while countries tolerate it they certainly do not wish for it.

Well, Australia has a 1 year "working holiday" visa which primarily attracts backpackers, so...yes?

I'm not coming until Monday but I'm planning ahead Got to find the best possible outcomes, least time (& money) spent, so I can spend the rest of my holiday on other things like overindulgence on tropical fruit

I'm staying in Bang Phli, but that's not far from Bangkok central, so getting into the city proper shouldn't be a problem. I know I'm not large... but some shops that cater to Thai women might struggle a bit with the height? That said, my stepaunt is about my height (though about 10kg lighter).

Do you have any suggestions for specific shops or shopping centres I should try?

Thanks

What shops or chains should I be looking for to find mid-range to, I don't know how to put it, "nice"? clothes for a farang woman, about 170cm (5'7")/US size 6-8?

I need a new work wardrobe, so trousers, skirts past the knees, button up shirts or other fairly dressy tops. I like to be well-presented in good-quality clothes but it's not a high-fashion workplace.

To clarify my budget- at home I probably pay on average 1200 baht for a shirt, maybe 1500 baht for a pair of trousers, which would be fairly average quality. I would expect to be able to trade up in quality a little?

I'm 27, if that helps in terms of what shops would be appropriate, and I have a personal chauffeur (a.k.a. my father) so I am pretty mobile

(I posted this in Ladies rather than the region forum because I think the women in this forum are likely to know more about the clothes available than the largely men who frequent the rest of the boards, but move if you think it's inappropriate).

Thanks for your help

One of the big impracticalities is that people at the very end are often unable to take oral medications. Getting injectable versions, and getting someone able to deliver through a non-oral route, may be difficult.

That said, if someone is able to take oral medications:

Tramadol as a painkiller seems to be widely prescribed- although it may possibly contribute to more delirium. If pain was a large issue, that might be a possibility.

Possibly lorazepam or one of the benzodiazepines could be prescribed if the patient could be brought into the hospital as an outpatient? It could be impractical to bring someone close to the end to a hospital for outpatient care, though.

Hyoscine butyl bromide is widely used for abdominal cramps as well as reducing secretions, so possibly available even over the counter.

Haloperidol is primarily an antipsychotic, probably not a "restricted" drug per se, but doctors may be reluctant to prescribe without seeing a patient, especially outpatient and especially given its sometimes nasty side-effect profile.

All of you who don't want to be served by transsexual air hostesses- quit whining? Why do you care what's under the clothes of the person who serves you drinks, delivers safety information and helps manage the plane in an emergency situation? How is it remotely relevant to you personally?

Back in 1958, when my mother left home to go to secretarial college, her father lined up glasses of orange juice some with different sorts of alcohol added to them, so she could tell if someone tried to spike her drinks! These days, I believe you are more likely to have tasteless drugs slipped into your drinks, so the advice is never to leave them unattended.

Alcohol is still the most common thing to spike a drink with. The trouble is, they're usually a) spiking the drinks of someone who has already had a few (so pushing them from tipsy to over the edge) and b ) misrepresenting the amount of alcohol in a drink which the spikee already knows to have alcohol in it.

Don't let someone order you a drink unless you see it being ordered and you see what's in it, and yes, don't let it out of your sight.

is it fat or is it loose skin? if the latter then not much will get rid of it once the skin has been stretched out over a long period apart from surgery ime:(

The skin doesn't look particularly loose at the moment, though it's not especially tight- but if you took the fat out from underneath it, would it look loose? I don't know. Probably a cosmetic surgeon would.

(I am somewhat fearful that they would be like the woman who threaded my eyebrows- "Are you suuuure you don't want to get your love handles done? Really?" There are few things about my body that bother me much at all, and I'd rather not have someone try to create new ones.)

Having been in the room when someone else had (traditional) liposuction done, I guess I have to figure out whether my vanity is worth being stabbed with a glorified vacuum cleaner in the abdomen, and the after-effects from that. It is not a pretty thing to watch happen. I'm not sure how much less invasive the newer methods are.

I'm now at a healthy weight for my height (same weight I was when I was 17), healthy and reasonably fit (although I'm still planning on increasing my swimming over the next year). I don't have much just-beneath-surface fat- I see bones everywhere that I haven't seen for years- just this loose fat sitting towards the bottom of my abdomen that hasn't really shifted much.

Talking about the "long history" of homeopathy is false too, since it was invented by one man 200 years ago. It doesn't have the thousands of years that many herbal remedies (some that work, some that don't) have behind them.

I guess liposuction (or the new varieties of the same) are the less-invasive? It's just that I've seen it done and I don't know if I want to go through that, even for the sake of my vanity.

Does a tummy tuck always require liposuction? I've lost quite a bit of weight (I'm presently 5'7", 145lb (170cm, 66kg), but used to be up to 205lb) and have a bit of a gut that is remaining from my previous weight. I remember the last time I was this weight I didn't have this hanging fat that I'm somewhat uncomfortable with.

I don't like it, I'd like to get rid of it, but I'm not sure what is necessarily involved. I'm a bit uncomfortable with liposuction as a procedure.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

I am fairly certain you don't need to tell people what subject you have a PhD in in NZ- that's where my father's PhD is from, and while he is all too pleased to tell you about it, the subject was never on his business cards (while his title was always Dr).

What I mean is- do you have to go to your regular doctor to get the clonazepam prescribed? Could you go to a cheaper doctor?

mommysboy: You are very certain of what you think, and I don't know that you are very amenable to changing your mind but nonetheless- very few medical tests are 100% accurate, which doesn't mean that there is no point doing them. If we didn't test, we wouldn't have any idea what was going on and what to treat for. Knowing that someone is "sick" isn't very helpful when you don't know what they are sick with, and some illnesses don't show clear symptoms until it is either too late to treat or treatment has a much lower success rate and is much more invasive.

I don't know how hard it would be to get clonazepam prescribed anyway? I was prescribed chlordiazepoxide, another benzodiazepine (same class of medications) when I had a headache and I hadn't even asked for it (and didn't want it)!

Do we know anything about the Australian who was arrested, Conor Purcell? I think they'll probably throw the book at him.

"laboratory tests found that the blood used in the symbolic blood-pouring protests included pig and cattle fluids, Dr Kusol said.

Regarding possible HIV/AIDS infection from the splattering protest, Permanent Secretary for Public Health Paichit Varachit explained that the chance of contracting the virus was slim".

I didn't know you could catch AIDS from these animals.. Another Yellow shirt propaganda issue. The yellow shirts are threatened with defeat and are now stooping to very low tactics. I thought the Yellows were the elite class the educated wealthy people. The people that modern society had 200 years ago the aristocrats who step on the little man and try and keep him down. Western society had that but the little man won and the western society little man, is the thai red shirt today.

Diluting human blood with pig and cow blood doesn't mean that there is no human blood, I would have thought that was obvious from the "included".

You would expect to find HIV, Hep B and Hep C in the blood spilt in an area like Thailand where there is a high rate of infection, unless the red shirts had gone to the trouble of screening the blood for infections first (which it would be appear they didn't).