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Your suspected diagnosis (blood vessels clogged) may be correct. You should visit a hospital. Get your history (all what you have written in your post) properly translated into Thai, written down, and show it to a doctor, not a nurse. That helps avoid misunderstandings about "banged your leg". The best ones in CM are Bangkok Hospital (expensive), Synphaet (private arm of the university hospital Maharat) and Ram. If money is a problem just go to Maharat hospital early morning (6am), be prepared for a lot of waiting. Need to speak Thai. I cannot recommend a specific doctor, but any hospital doctor should be able to do an initial examination from where to proceed. The problem is most probably related to either blood vessels or nerves. Those are treatable conditions.

Since last year, condo owners have to pay a tax. No tax if you live in your condo. To prove this, you have to be registered in the yellow house book (in January of that year). My district office was very angry when i asked for a yellow housebook. They gave me a long list of things I have to bring them to get a tabien baan. First requirement that I have to bring them: tabien baan. (Not kidding. The list is in Thai and they ticked off, by hand, what they wanted to give me a tabien baan: first of all, they want a tabien baan) They were not in the mood to answer questions. I am sure I will have lots of fun with them. Anyone knows more about the tax situation? Is the tabien baan really necessary?

There was that German guy who predicted this 200 years ago. But he is anathema in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Transactions are consolidated if it's a much longer time, not just 4 months like in your passbook. I use a dedicated FD account with BBL, get the "letter for immigration" at the branch at CW on the day i go there, don't even look at whatever i get and never had a problem. Like Dickp. But you are right, they may invent a problem any time. Firstly, they must make the LTR visa attractive by harassing the paupers who just have some other extension. Second and more important, it is a basic concept of social control that the ruled should not understand the rules by which they are ruled. Immigration should not be a predictable, automatic procedure where the ruled (that's us) can calculate the outcome in advance. It must be an unpredictable maze (read Kafka). That makes it very clear who has power and who is powerless (that's us). Power is not: demanding reasonable things that the subject knows in advance. Power is demanding (and getting) unreasonable, nonsensical things, made up on a whim. Like nonsensical passbook updates. And then, if you kowtow, you may be pardoned (as you were). But the power has been exercised, and that's all it's about. You should read up on military sociology.

As mentioned before: why do you live in a place where this is possible? I know places like this, and i wouldn't move in there. It's obvious before you even set foot in there what kind of people live there. In many places this would not be tolerated, LB would have disappeared very quickly. If you are a complete newbie and also insensitive to social clues, get someone to teach you what is a nice neighborhood and where you don't want to live. Some hints: go for condos of the big brand names (this has been said before); look at the balconies from outside (and the amount and kind of clothes hanging there); is the place beautiful and well kept so it attracts people who value this?; who is hanging out in front of the building? (hordes of motorcycle guys? Isaan mothers of working girls taking care of the kids? people drinking or smoking?); when you visit the place the first time who is there anyway? (if it's 3pm the place should be deserted, everybody should be at work) and and and...

That was my thought, too, when I read OP. I find most toothbrushes here too hard, not soft enough.

Valacyclovir is preferable because you don't have to take it so often. But Valacyclovir really is expensive. It is easily available in Thailand but probably not covered by SS. Normally, they use Aciclovir here.

That's correct, but it has nothing to do with ear wax. Water is not wax. (My previous post was actually about water, causing inflammation) Doctor Tom is 100% correct. Removal of ear wax belongs to the same pseudo-hygienic unhealthy <deleted> that capitalist companies have brainwashed Americans with, like shampooing your hair daily (see another thread - why not shampooing every hour?), disinfectants to clean your living room and and and.... How did mankind survive before Procter&Gamble? Any ENT doctor regularly sees people who perforated their eardrum with cotton buds or other objects.

I use BBL at CW and this year it was faster than ever, less than 10 minutes. Never 40 minutes. IO never asked to see activities (fixed deposit account for immi). This year, the bank offered me 2 kinds of letters: one, only the statement, same as every year. Another one, all activities (in my case, no activities). Both cost 100 or 200, I forgot. I was like, "which one is better???" and took both. When IO saw both letters, she was like, "which one is better???" and decided she liked the letter with the activities more. Gave me back the other one.

The pharmacist at my local BigC is usually having a break, off duty, or not yet here.

Yes. And buy a whole box of 800mg tablets, and a pill cutter. That reduces costs more. You will need 200mg 5 times a day, or 400 3 times a day. It is generally only recommended for outbreaks, not as a lifelong permanent medication.

It still is the norm when everything else fails. I learned this the hard way after 6 or 7 ENT doctors in 3 countries. All without success. Then a big hight-tech university hospital in Germany used hydrogen peroxide ???? Cheap, simple, easy to do at home.

Your president disagrees. I hope he is better informed than you.

Hmmmm.... Yes , that's correct. You forget to mention that the same reports say that Russia uses the cheap disposables because it has used up so many (did they say 50%? I forgot) of the expensive ones.

Answer to OP: not to my knowledge. I am familiar with the flares you are talking about. Yes, to have this in the middle of the city is quite something.

Correct, BigC and Lotus, 7 days. No questions asked. Need receipt. I don't know about Lotus's, though, it might have changed since the take-over.

Inter-city regular busses (the ones that stop at every palm tree) are just รถ, sometimes the color is added (there used to be the red ones all over the place, people in Khon Kaen know a yellow one and a pink one etc)

Sounds a bit far-fetched but I don't have any better explanation. Now it also means the driver and his vehicle (like in "taxi") as in นั่งวิน or ไม่มีวิน

Sounds like side- effects from Femara. https://breastcancernow.org/information-support/facing-breast-cancer/going-through-breast-cancer-treatment/side-effects-letrozole-femara

Paxlovid is not OTC. It's actually not easy at all to get. Molnupiravir is easier to get (but much less efficient ). A doctor who prescribes Paxlovid doesn't have to read medical literature. There are several interactive websites to check interactions with Paxlovid. Nobody can remember 600 interactions. But interactions with common medications like amlodipine, Xarelto or tamsulosin, most doctors will know how to handle them.

I am honestly shocked. I always found dating in America weird and hard to understand (all these serial marriages...). But I didn't know it's that bad. In Thailand, if Thais of the same level (like 2 students of the same university, or co-workers) go out, even for a date, sharing the bill is the norm. But they will not calculate to the last penny who spent how much (in some countries this is the norm).

40b per h is minimum wage in Bangkok. There is some mistake here. You are right about the shifts.

That's nurse helpers, not nurses. Big difference. A nurse helper has no education whatever and gets more or less minimum wage. A nurse has a degree. In Bumrungrad, as in most hospitals here, they wear different uniforms. 2 years ago, at the height of covid lockdowns, Bumrungrad didn't fire any staff. But there were no more medical tourists (Arabs etc). So a lot of staff had their working hours and their salaries cut considerably. Maybe that explains your impression.

In Thai, the term is "sell the body" (for money). Not the soul. Interesting, isn't it?

You do realize that a small minority of about 90%, especially Thais, are not so keen on having sleazy beer gardens with "dirty farangs" and "women selling their body" (the Thai word for the p-word that Spider Murphy doesn't like) in their neighborhood? Some people living in Soi 81 are not happy when they hear their soi called "little Pattaya". And some Thais avoid this neighborhood nowadays.