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It's bisacodyl with an "a" in the middle. Dulcolax (with an "o") is avalable in Thailand, not difficult to find (distributed by DKSH).

"Essential" hypertension is what normal people call hypertension. "Essential" just means doctors pretend there is no obvious, simple reason (funny, weighing 300kg, smoking 40 cig/day, and never moving away from the TV is not considered a reason for hypertension by doctors - they will still call it "essential") An example for high BP that doctors don't call "essential": some tumours produce hormones that make your heart beat faster and your BP going up. "Pulmonary hypertension" has nothing to do with what you call high BP. In some diseases of the lung, the pressure only in the blood vessels inside the lung is elevated. You cannot measure this with a BP meter, and BP can be normal.

Read my post from yesterday. BCDC has pictures of their main clinic on the internet. You can count how many floors the building has (I think it was 2), and from the looks of the location it's obviously not for an international clientele. Their website seems to be only in Thai.

The "food" industry poisoning the people for profit is not a phenomenon unique to Thailand. McDonald, Nestlé, Mars, Pepsico ... where exactly are these from?

Don't really know. It seems to me that Scandinavians are very happy about it, they love, trust and believe their governments. Germans, Austrians, Swiss are not happy and grumbling, but if their government says "jump", they jump. Southern Europeans have always been the creative types. But they more or less follow EU regulations because they live on EU subsidies. These are gross generalizations, but there really is almost no resistance against the abolition of cash.

In many countries it's illegal to do any significant financial transaction without using a bank account, you are not allowed to receive salaries or pensions in cash, you are not allowed to pay taxes or insurances in cash, it's illegal to buy anything for cash over a very low threshold (which is lowered every couple of years)

Contrary to what @conndasays, intestinal worms have nothing to do with the tropics and have everything to do with poor hygiene, usually due to poverty and laziness/resistance to education (people in Thailand - including foreigners - are educated about hygiene, but often they don't follow what they have been taught). Rich places like Singapore (right on the equator) or Darwin have much less worms than Myanmar ( @Gottfrid's recommendation is spot on) The usual rules of hygiene are mostly well known, eg: - don't eat feces, especially human feces, so please wash @ss and hands after visiting the toilet, wash hands before eating, wash or peel fruit and vegetables, clean food utensils - don't walk in feces, ie don't walk barefoot on a beach, they are all full of dog šhit - don't eat raw meat or fish - don't eat home-made fish sauce! Because medicines are not candy, contrary to @connda 's advice, you shouldn't take albendazole without a medical indication. If you have symptoms like diarrhea or abdominal pain get a medical examination, it will often include a stool examination You can also get a stool examination maybe once a year, but you shouldn't take medicine without a reason.

How many times do people have to tell you that you don't necessarily feel a too high BP?

555 The most important thing I learned from this story is that the real Boston is in Lincolnshire. But the remaining mystery is - where the fųck is Lincolnshire? Is it near Kennedyshire?

Try to live in Malaysia for 20 years on visa runs every 90 days

Very few Thais know the full name of friends or colleagues. If they know somebody for 2 days, they will know only the nickname. The real name (in English: the first name) may be known later. The family name is only used for legal and official purposes, like marriage or a joint bank account, not for a teenage love affair.

"Eat food, not edible food-like substances"

This only serves surveillance. CBDC serves active control, steering people. Big difference, and this what the article, especially the quoted comment, is all about

Yes, only hookers there pulling your teeth. No real dentists. The good people all left Onnut after Celsius and his friend Fahrenheit moved there, and it's a very BAD area now.

Prof Lalida, Bumrungrad. I met her for the first time when I was very unhappy with a Rutnin doctor and ended up as Dr Lalida's patient, 20 years ago. Very good, but not cheap (I once paid 2500 for a consultation of 1 1/2 hours - others charge 1200 for 2 minutes) Doesn't work every day, though.

I checked prices in India. You can get it for this price from Apollo (reputable chain), made by Sun (a big, renowned manufacturer of generics). So the price is not out of this world.

The most surprising thing I learned in Thailand was how blind, stupid, naive and gullible farang are. The opening post is a good example.

A thief once stole 45000 from a girl next door, she had it in her room, it was her tuition. In today's money, it would be more than 100,000. There were other students living there, some under 18. No hookers. And to shack up after 2 days is not that unusual with young Thais (or young people in many countries)

Nothing went wrong. It seemed to me that it wasn't as effective as the Bayer stuff, but that was a very subjecive impression. I felt uncomfortable enough to spend several thousand baht more on Avelox. It didn't help that I didn't know the company, and few pharmacies carried their product.

Sorry, my mistake. I confused BCDC with BIDC. (There's even a BSDC - can't these dentist be more creative?) I know nothing about BCDC. I asked mod to delete my post.

I am going to google what that is...

"I am female!"

Thailand is not a country where problems are solved through paperwork. This ain't Kansas.

Interesting article in today's FT on the digital wallet as an experiment in central bank digital currency: The central government in Bangkok decides who gets it (not criminals, not who doesn't need it because they have already enough) when it can be spent (only whithin 6 months - save and lose your money) where it can be spent (only near your registered address - not in the City) what can be bought (no mobiles, no cigarettes) from whom you can buy (no criminals, only goverment-approved merchants) People love it. https://www.ft.com/content/9194ca11-7788-4a1d-a6cc-cffea18d0c9d One of the comments: The article only touches slightly on the evil that CBDCs represent. It is programmable money in the full sense of that word. It means it can be programmed with arbitrary conditions and clauses, as to what it can and cannot be used for, who can use it, what the interest rate is etc. It can easily perform economic ostricizm on any group deemed "undesirable" by the government. Do not fall for their talking points about it being "safe", "convenient" and "good", because then one day you might actually find yourself on the wrong end of the government policy.

Mostly the tenant just keeps living there and paying the rent. Usually both parties are too lazy to produce new paper. It's different with farang, farang love paperwork