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The biggest load of nonsense I've read for a long time. Or as some other nationalities would put it, "a load of old cobblers". LOL

But trump still keeps trying......!!

Yeah right!! Poor buyers are almost certain to get "shafted" on this one, as has happened before here.

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID.......................... Health experts sound alarm over RFK Jr. influence as an "anti-vaxxer" Robert F. Kennedy’s endorsement and appointment to Donald Trump’s transition team have health experts worried. “From a health perspective this would be nothing short of chaos,” said Robert Murphy, a professor of infectious disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Trump has expressed wildly different views on vaccines. Before entering politics, Trump was an avowed vaccine skeptic, often parroting the widely discredited theory that childhood vaccines, or at least high doses of them, cause autism. Kennedy has also said conflicting things on vaccines in the past. He has denied being completely against vaccines but has frequently promoted debunked theories about them. https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/4860715-rfk-jr-influence-trump-health-experts-worried AND......Hydroxychloroquine, A Drug Trump Promoted To Treat Covid-19, Linked To 17,000 Deaths, Estimates Show! If Kennedy has a say in the health issues and health management in the USA, if trump should be re-elected, then I fear for the poor people in the USA, because it's possible that ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, bleach and UV light could be on the "recommended list" and other nut jobs like Marjorie Taylor Greene could well have a say in things – – god help the poor people of the USA, especially those that didn't vote for the aforementioned candidates. Sad, so very sad to envisage.

And you have just gone on mine because of you idiotic/nonsensical and trolling posts.........no point in replying as I won't see it!!

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I did quite a bit of research on this also, but unfortunately the cranberry juice which I can buy here contains only 25% of cranberry juice with the rest being made up of sugar and water (as I recall) so no real use. The only thing which can work and did for a while for me, is a tablet called D-Mannose, but I don't think they are cheap, but that's getting away from the root cause for you, which is an already established E. coli infection, and no amount of cranberry juice or D-mannose will help I believe, because they won't kill bacteria, just stop it from adhering to the bladder wall BEFORE it becomes established. It would appear that a Carbapenem is your only solution, although it would be worth you having a culture done again at a bigger hospital, because there is at least one new antibiotic on the market, and others do seem to have an effect, and a friend with a recent UTI was prescribed Sitafloxacin, but I don't know if that was for E. coli or E. coli ESBL on which a very limited range of antibiotics will work. Having said that I'm not a fan of fluoroquinolones because of the potential harm to tendons in some people. Just a thought.......it is possible that a small hospital in an outlying area could have Carbapenem (or one of that group) sent to the hospital for use??? Good luck with whatever you try, and please keep the posters here informed, as we seem to be in the same boat sometimes!

Yes, getting old does suck! Anyway onto your post, whilst I wasn't exactly "pissing like a horse" after my TURP, at least some water was flowing, although it never achieved my expectations and many years later I did consider going for another one, but decided against it for one reason or another. Then after the bladder neck incision, which was carried out after a cystoscopy, when the urologist said that I had scar tissue at the bladder neck and that needed to be removed as it was impeding urine flow, however after that procedure things were never the same for me, what with retrograde ejaculation and later on the bladder ceasing to work at all!!!! Hence the reason I use a catheter twice a day now – – I will state that it is not particularly painful, just uncomfortable, but I would much rather do without it as you can imagine. I did go to see the best urologist at Bumrungrad, and despite a couple of hours or so of tests, probes and measurements, he wasn't able to give me an explanation as to why the bladder wasn't working, so here I am! The Hiprex or the Uramet tablets really do work for me and they only come in 1 mg size, so one in the morning and one in the evening is sufficient for me. However here is the rub......I haven't been able to find them in Thailand, however I have found a couple of pharmacies in Australia who will ship them to me here, and I use those, but be warned the cost of shipping is as much as the tablets themselves, so now I order four bottles at a time, which incur import duty of about 120 baht, so no big deal in that respect. I have seen them on eBay and Amazon, but they are almost always out of stock, but could be worth a try. I too have all of my test results with me and I have sent a copy of them to my doctor/surgeon in NZ, who has been absolutely brilliant for me over the years and he's going to approach a couple of his urologist colleagues to see if they can shed any light on what might be causing a nonworking bladder? He is a great guy and I am so thankful for his help, however I'm not hopeful that a solution can be found, sadly. If you want I will send you a PM with regards to the particular pharmacy in Oz who will supply and ship the aforementioned tablets if you want. Please stay in touch as I would love to hear your progress, and I'm hoping that whatever they find with your situation can shed some light on mine!!!! All the very best to you, Xylo

Sorry to hear that Simon43, however Hiprex will not cure a UTI, just prevent one from occurring, so if you have a "symptomatic UTI" then you will need to go on to something like I had to a while back before I discovered Hiprex, which was a Carbapenem antibiotic, delivered intravenously once a day for 10 days or 14 days (can't remember now). It was expensive but I considered it worth the outlay.

Yes he said he particularly loves the poorly educated!!

Your welcome.........so you must be an American and the type trump loves!!!

I have posted before on this subject and I had similar conditions after my Turp many years ago, which initially seemed to improve, but then after having a bladder neck incision done here in Phuket, things went downhill and now I have to use a catheter twice a day to empty my bladder, because it won't work, and constipation is still something I have to deal with. I know I'm not emptying my bladder because I use a catheter and measure the amount of urine I pass each time (twice a day, sometimes once a day) and that can be up to 800 to 900 ml, far more than the everyday bladder should hold. The fact that you do urinate 3 to 4 times a day is good, but may I suggest you pee into a measuring jug and measure how much urine you extract each time. I say this because the urologist here has said that I need to keep the urine level in my bladder below 400ml, and if I don't I am susceptible to an infection. I have managed to stave off infections in the main by taking a tablet called Hiprex or Uramet, both of which contain methenamine hippurate and are taken twice a day, and this acidifies the urine making it difficult for bacteria to take hold (or so the literature says) however I have to say it works for me. May I wish you all the very best in your improvements and, as I said before, please keep us informed as to your progress.

This can of worms has been opened and scrutinised and Trump and his Foundation have been found guilty and have admitted their Fraud ........ Trump and his foundation were just forced to admit their fraud. Now the IRS needs to act. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-his-foundation-were-just-forced-admit-their-fraud-now-ncna1081906 Donald J. Trump Pays Court-Ordered $2 Million for Illegally Using Trump Foundation Funds Trump Ordered to Pay Eight Separate Charities $250,000 Each https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-court-ordered-2-million-illegally-using-trump-foundation Sorry if it is a bit late, but had some workmen installing two new aircons so couldn't get to the computer!

Well he started by stealing from a Charity..............

25????? On November 29th, 1864, while John Evans was governor of Colorado and territorial superintendent of Indian Affairs, a Cheyenne and Arapaho village along Sand Creek in the Colorado Territory was attacked by United States soldiers. Around 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people were killed, most of them women, children and elders. The Sand Creek Massacre remains one of the worst atrocities committed by US soldiers in history and remains in the recent memory of Cheyenne and Arapaho people. https://www.northwestern.edu/native-american-and-indigenous-peoples/about/sand-creek.html Also......"at around 6:30, the soldiers would open fire amongst the lodges of the innocent and unaware Arapaho and Cheyenne civilians. Over the course of eight hours the American troops killed around 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people composed mostly of women, children, and the elderly. During the afternoon and following day, the soldiers wandered over the field committing atrocities on the dead before departing the scene on December 1st". You seem a little light on facts........probably skewed to fit in with your political leanings?

Well, if that's what you're focusing on, then you totally missed the point of the film because it wasn't about Buffy Saint Marie, it was about the Sand Creek Massacre by Colonel Chivington and his men – – women and children slaughtered, raped and mutilated, with many body parts removed. A sad chapter in American history and nothing whatsoever to do with Buffy Saint Marie.

And you missed this as well......................trump and co are rotten to the core "The last of three men convicted in a “We Build the Wall” fundraising fraud scheme was sentenced to more than five years in prison Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Timothy Shea "stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to line his own pockets," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York said in a statement. Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist in the Trump administration, was also charged in the scheme. Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty, was pardoned by Trump in the final hours of his presidency in 2021 and never stood trial.

Trump...............promising jobs for the everyday working American, yet getting the MAGA hats made in China!! Then selling NFTs depicting someone clearly not him, then there was the Build the Wall scam, taking money from his supporters, which never went towards building a wall. He plays to the naiive, the dumb and his favourite folk.......the poorly educated. That is a low life grifter!

What a load of old cobblers!!!

Well some of the USA's top CEOs are on record as saying this....... Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs this week, multiple attendees told CNBC. “Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said one CEO who was in the room. Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” reported. AND Trump met with at least 80 CEOs on Thursday to promise tax cuts and scaled-back business regulations if he’s elected president. Among those present were Apple CEO Tim Cook and the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America. Trump spoke for about an hour, during which he rambled nonsensically, throwing off those in the room, according to sources who shared details of the meeting After Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, his legal team and his defenders lodged a frequent talking point. “This was a rape claim, this was a rape case all along, and the jury rejected that — made other findings,” his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said outside the courthouse. A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood. I can explain it to you BUT I can't understand it for you Anyway by your responses it can be seen that you are the type of supporter that trump likes (look it up) so no use trying to talk sense to those sort of folks!!

He wouldn't be able to spell the word "genius" let alone know what it meant, and as the invited CEOs at one of his meetings said, using various descriptions, "he doesn't know what he's talking about", "the man is dumb", "he can't keep on subject about anything".....and so on, and those quotes are from industry leaders in the USA! And Trump also likes to sidle up to the Christians, waving a Bible or two, even though he hasn't got a Christian bone in his body and taking that little further, the Bible states, "By their deeds you will know them" so by his deeds, so he will be known – – – grabbing pu$$y – rapist – convicted felon – multi-bankrupt (depriving working Americans of what was owed to them) – stealing from a charity – deeply in debt – compulsive liar – adulterer So this man you hold in such high esteem is a lowlife crook and folks who support him have been drinking deeply of the MAGA cult Kool-Aid – – that wouldn't be you would it!!!!! You're too smart to support someone with a record like this, surely? I will back Kamala Harris because she is none of the above..

Still doesn't alter the fact that Trump is a reprehensible, low life grifter and convicted felon who is extremely dumb with over 10 bankrupted companies to his name.....no amount of money can change that!!! Thank god for daddie's millions .

I see you have become the AN media and entertainment person, endeavouring to give us sane and rational posters a good laugh for the day – – thank you for your efforts, but next time choose some truths to post, because the man is a "sandwich short of a picnic" or as an American politician said, "an egg short of an omelette". I particularly liked his anti-abortion stance whereby he wanted to stop abortions, even after the baby had been born – – yeah right! A self labelled stable genius, no less!!! LOL

I recently stumbled upon a comedy series which I'd never heard of before, so thought I would give it a try and was so pleased that I did because some parts of it were very funny. The name of it was, "The Thin Blue Line" and it was released on British television in 1995/96, and it was written by Ben Elton and starred Rowan Atkinson, amongst others. IMO, one of the funniest comedy series I've seen in years . PS. Series Two is the funniest (IMO).