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I agree. That's why I wrote they "offer it". How good their offer is, I don't know

I would be very p...ed off if someone would publish a search warrant, with pictures and personal details, just because allegedly i didn't call home for 3 weeks!!! I am an adult, for heavens sake. And I have the right to some privacy. Don't publish my pics on a forum for aging tourists who could be my grandpas!

Bumrungrad offers it

Well said. But you still read up on hip replacements...? Isn't that funny? And your surgeon maybe thought " oh, another f...ing dentist who knows nothing about real medicine but thinks he knows after a bit of googling" The alternative would be, just find out who is the best surgeon, see him, let him do his thing and don't think too much. Not exactly intellectually satisfying. I did my hip replacement that way, as I am not an orthopedic surgeon. (The result was not good BTW). But people who suffer from chronic prostatitis like Xylo, or fibromyalgia, or CFS, or long Covid, you name it, they will invariably start reading up on their disease. And they will come across all kinds of studies, some of which they don't fully understand. And as they keep being dismissed by their doctors ("their is nothing", "it's all in the mind", "you must learn to live with it") they will feel that sometimes they know more than their doctors. Often, they are right. More often, they are wrong. It's not that clear-cut.

Don't know what you mean by "fluco". If you mean fluconazole, that's not an antibiotic (it's an antifungal). Clindamycin is loved by mang dentists, but it does often cause diarrhea. It rarely causes severe problems with C-diff (Clostridium difficile) in previously healthy patients.

This is the reason why in many Western European countries you will have professional rehab after this kind of operation for many weeks, often in specialized rehab hospitals. In Thailand, you are on your own, which often defeats the purpose of the whole procedure.

Thx Today I watched the Japanese guy I mentioned earlier doing exactly this, and yes, it looked like a real workout. This thread gave me many ideas what I can do, thanks to all.

By whom? Especially the private hospitals did this with farang patients. In other countries, the doctor could be sued for malpractice if the only reason for the x-ray is a positive covid test. An x-ray machine is not a toy.

That's an interesting idea, never occurred to me. Sounds logical. So that's another thing i will try today. Thx a lot to all posters, lots of good advice.

First, you focus too much on cost saving policies of the NHS. I have heard terrible stories about the NHS, but my point of reference is Western Europe. Second, you are not alone in having difficulties grasping the meaning of statistics for personal decisions. If you profit from an X-ray statistically by .01%, and statistically it will harm you by .02%, you shouldn't do it. It's a futile money-making exercise.

I will try it today

As Sheryl explained before: if you screen healthy people, you will find many false positives and you will bring them into the diagnostic machinery, which may be quite invasive and harmful. PSA is an example: not testing will miss some cancers (some of them will never spread), testing will result in a lot of unnecessary harmful biopsies. So in case of PSA, it's a difficult decision. X-rays are harmful per se, so they should rarely be used as a screening tool. To x-ray millions of healthy people (in order to find one case of cancer, your acquaintance) you may cause two radiation-related cancers. It's a question of statistics. Screening is useful if its harmless and there is a reasonably high chance of finding something. Blood in stool ifs the best example. FBS and HbA1c in elderly farang in Thailand, too, not if you are 41. Same for lipid profile. Ultrasound of healthy people is harmless and fun, but the results are too unspecific to be useful (same for the tumor markers and CBC). These packages are money-making exercises feeding on the naive belief in technology in medicine.

Exactly. 2 unnecessary radiation 3+4 maybe fun, but useless 5+6 can't hurt 7 useless in a healthy person 8,9 good idea 10 if you really want to check the liver, check yGT, not the stuff they check 11 one of both is good enough, preferably creatinine 12 good idea 13 can't hurt 14 good idea 15 hotly debated as a screening test 16,17 not suitable as screening test 18 useless in a healthy person, not suitable as a screening test

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You really made me google what are finasteroids... The name is finasteride, not a steroid

PS the Balanitis (burning head of penis, but nothing visible) improved and disappeared completely on ciclopirox, an antifungal cream. Maybe coincidence, maybe there is really some fungus.

I have been thinking along these lines, too. There are doctors who give antifungals in these cases, and I just started this today.

Actually, quite correct.

10 months Doctors cleared me for everything. I have been swimming all my life, not competitive, but for fun. I have never felt exhausted from swimming. That's why I feel it's just splashing about. There is a Japanese guy at our condo who seems to do HIIT swimming. He looks very fit. I will try to copy him.

Can you still get his name? Thx

You missed his first thread where he explicitly stated this?

KK looks terrible, the ugliest place i know in Thailand. People however are great. Thats why I have spent there maybe more time than anywhere else in Thailand. One big advantage of KK is their well functioning network of public transport, even with a map. But, someone who finds Central great, obviously has a different world view from mine, and certainly won't find said map. PS just discovered another poster wrote similar things, should have read the whole thread before writing

Had a fracture of a knee a while ago, so now i cannot jog (walking is ok), doctor advises against cycling (i thought that's good for the knees, but when i try it hurts). Physical therapist recommended swimming, but how can splashing around in the water make me break a sweat? I have been swimming all my life, but never got exhausted like i get from interval training. I heard about Nordic walking (never understood what that is), but we are not in Scandinavia here... Any ideas?

Kwonitoy and Dr Tom probably pay PEA/MEA rate. You pay 8B, which is almost double. This is legal, very normal (one poster pays 7B, he is a lucky guy) and probably also reasonable (the reasons why this is reasonable are explained by some posters in another thread about this subject). The consumption is all from the a/c. And these look terribly old to me. Crossy will know better. 7 years ago I rented a place with big antique a/c like this. 45 sqm, 6000 B for electricity. A friend of mine has about 60sqm, old a/c. MEA rate. Easily runs up 4000 or 5000B. Ask some lo-so Thais, factory workers or prostitutes, the kind of people who live in 1-room apartments, about electricity bills. You will hear many horror stories. Old a/c, 8B: electric is often higher then rent. You are probably not taken advantage of. If you want it cheaper rent a condo where you pay MEA rate. BTW living in a hiso area but complaining about electricity?

I have done this before, and a friend of mine about 2 years ago. No problems, no stamp, no fine.