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13 hours ago, Sheryl said:

The various tests you mention have different purposes and all would not be considered in a single patient.

Possible that none would be indicated in your case.

When you say "not peeing enough" what exactly do you mean? Is it that you simply can't fully empty your bladder or that there is not much urine? If the former in most cases you'd be peeing often but in small amounts and unable to get up a normal stream. If the latter you are likely just dehydrated.

Prostate enlargement, stones etc would not account tor being weak and tired.

Dehydration could. So might a urinary tract infection.

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Peeing often but in small amounts. 10 times a day 15 seconds normal stream.  Was taking cipro 500 for 5 days but caused pain (heart burn) and constipation.  

What makes this difficult is getting new insurance this next week and my cardiologist started his own clinic and it is less money than the hospital - same equipment and I want to switch because he is there all the time not only 1 day per week like at the hospital.

Denmark has highest rate of lung cancer

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/countries-with-the-highest-cancer-rates/ss-AAAr3yO

6 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

I don't dislike everything Thai and if you had read enough of my posts you would have know that. What  I dislike is the hypocritical nature of many Thais and others and the greed and corruption that is demonstrated within Thai Buddhism. Go to Bhutan and spend 3 months in a temple there, you may perhaps just grasp what it is all about and the true path rather then what is the embodiment of Thai Buddhism.

Why.  I go to a Forest Wat in Rayong and have for many years.  All countries have good and bad things.  Appears you like the bad and I like the good.  Why would I go to Buhtan?  I have found Buddhist I like in Thailand and if you were not trying to bash Thailand or learn about Buddhism you would search for the truth.  This thread is about expats leaving Thailand are you really saying because Wat's are better in Bhutan?  

7 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

For a start I would never lift my hand to a woman, besides if a stranger deliberately provokes you in a bar, he deserves a sore face, and to go to jail you have to be caught first. I was always away before the police came.

Not necessary to lift hand.  She pound face for fun if you say bad word to me.  After she through with you can not run.  Is wearing clothes you don't like provoke?

3 hours ago, mogandave said:

I wasn't making an argument. And if you google Glock automatic revolvers you get a bunch of pictures of Glock automatics.

 

An automatic is completely different than a revolver. Automatics typically have an interchangeable clip, revolvers do not. 

20 shot revolver has more shots than a Glock Auto.  

11 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Nobody I knew left because of the cost of living, they left because of immigration problems.

65k every month one was SMT/800k in bank 1 day too short/90 day reports/TM30s+fines/immigration officers wanting different documents every visit/queuing all night for appointments/calls round to your house, etc.

 

All you need in Cambodia is $300 in your hand, and call into an agents office for 5 minutes.

 

They left because of the crash of the pound and they could noet put 800,000 in the bank and leave it there.

9 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

But that does not find anyone, just a smoke and mirrors story that can not be substantiated.   Hans Cristian Andersons books were more believable.

Google tells you where to locate the Wats.  You go.  Stay for a week or so and see if it is your thing.  

I realize you dislike everything Thai but why bash when you have no experience?

12 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

I came to live in Thailand in 2005, at that time I would have recommended it to other would be retirees, but not now, for reasons that are well documented here on Thaivisa.

Back in the UK, when I was in a bar I never threatened anybody either, but if anyone who I didn't know did something to annoy me, I would just hit them. 

Nice guy.  If you hit someone without or with cause in most bars in the West they put you in jail.  I was here in 2005 to and I had a Muay Thai body guard.  She put a number of fellows away.  Only costs 500 baht to get her out of jail.

Just now, geoffbezoz said:

Unfortunately finding any sincere Thai Buddhist monk is on a par with finding a unicorn.

I had no problem doing it.  But I had an advantage.  I know how to google.

https://forestsangha.org/about/history/present-day

Going to the hospital on Sunday.  Came to the conclusion I wasn't peeing enough so have apt with a Urologist.  

1. Flexible Cystoscopy

Advantage:  Reducing endoscopic pain

2. Flexible Ureterorendoscope 

Advantage Ability to treat kidney and ureteral stones together in a single surgery

3. ESWL (Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy)

Advantages:    No need for surgery,  no hospitalization

4. PCNL (Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy)

Advantage:  Small lesions about 2 cm in size to treat large kidney stones

5. Prostate biopsy to diagnose prostate cancer
6. MRI Prostate for diagnosing prostate cancer

They say, "   No pain from urinary catheterization to measure the amount of urine
   • Prostate-related disease
   • Urinary tract encoscopy"

I'll believe it when I see it. 

1 hour ago, Ctkong said:

Thailand is a great destination for retirement if you can afford it. It is not however a good place to elk out a living or do business in. This , I gather from 30 years of living monthly for 10/14 days each visit to Bangkok. I have many Thai friends in the same trade though my business is in Malaysia and overseas EXCEPT Thailand. I find many Thai businessmen lacked sincerity and always out to scam something free out of you. Of course there are also some who were beyond reproach. I attributed these characteristics to the lack of legal recourse, rampant corruption, power of $ to make problems go away , lack of civic education, paying lip service to Buddhism instead of spiritual cultivation( shallow understanding of Buddhism) , praying to money god. Being insular socially doesn’t help either. 

Never tried the forest monks.  Shame on you.  Any Thai sincere Buddhist could have told you.

2 hours ago, mommysboy said:

I don't think 'bread flour' predicts a particularly wonderful lifestyle, does it?  And of course I am now reliant on the Thai health service.  Whatever the merits of bread and jam or otherwise, it does not indicate affluence.

 

No booze, no fags, no holidays, and I have cancelled my gym membership.  We are eating much more fruit and veg than before, and looking to eliminate bad food like wheat.

 

But the point is this: the cost of living has definitely increased and it's ever harder to earn even half decent money.  In the end, you can only spend so little. 

 

Why else have so many left?

Brexit, Brexit, Brexit.  Put the blame where it belongs on the government and people of the UK.   

38 minutes ago, Pomrakuhn said:

It is often more green because there is more shit there.

I believe it is India and China where they poop in the street not Thailand.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Of course. But some say it isn't happening. I find that BIZARRE. 

Or truthful and you are the bizarre one.  Not one thing has changed for many at Immigration.  If you put 800,000 in the bank and went to Maptaphut Immigration.  

24 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Prostitutes are available anywhere in the world though , much more variety of females in western cities and the price is on par with Thailand .

You can get a prostitute anywhere in the world

Not at the grocery section at the supermarket.  Or at the Samsung store.  Or at MacDonald's.  A trip to the mall in Thailand is mega fun.

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

I'll take your word for it, but it is not just Brexit or the exchange rate, no one in his right mind from any western country would retire to Thailand without doing due diligence unless it was something to do with family in the present climate with the immigration issues, ie treating us like criminals.

Just you (the criminal stuff) not treating me any different then 2005.  Of course I don' threaten people in bars.  

1 minute ago, mogandave said:

 

Not sure, but I don't think Glock makes revolvers.

Google Glock automatic revolvers.  I just love pedantic arguments.

9 minutes ago, mogandave said:

 

This is due to systemic racism in the judicial system.

Who cares?  It is what it is.  The only way it gets better is to change the mix and have more Hispanic and blacks that vote Democratic.  

19 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I wouldn't let a guy buy 3 Glocks....

 

You wrote,"For my opinion, I'd give you six shots of a standard revolver."  A Glock is a standard revolver.  I believe there are millions of the in circulation in USA now.

20 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

"They make nothing themselves..."

Garbage.

How about german junk?

https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/rayong/en/our-plant/built-in-thailand.html

2 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

 

But the fact that pork butt was quoted as being the same price as 10 years ago was more than likely they purchased it 10 years ago and its been frozen ever since which perhaps explains why most Makro "fresh meat" counters stink.

Have you never been to Makro? And watched them cutting fresh meat every morning?  Don't they have Makro in the UK?

19 hours ago, possum1931 said:

You are saying that right now there are actually expats coming to Thailand to retire????

Been a number posted on TV about it.  Americans have not been hit badly by Brexit.

23 hours ago, Speedo1968 said:

Why wear a watch for recording BP ?   Why not buy a proper BP checker example Omron ?

I have 2 proper omron BP checkers at home and the watch matches them when I check.  The watch records my BP and pulse 24/7 on my phone.