Lorry

In the pic, he doesn't look frail and gaunt. Looks more like a bullman. I wouldn't want to be near him when he is drunk (neither when he is sober)

Thanks a lot, very helpful

BTW with Bangkok Bank I have had the same bank account number and passbook on my fixed deposit account for years. Every year they roll the account over at whatever the going rate is on the day. Does Kbank do the same? Or do they give me a new account and a new book every time a FD expires?

Thx. I do exactly the same, with Bangkok Bank. I show the letter to immigration and the copy of the FD bank book. The statement (showing less than 800,000) I didn't show. Worked very well. I am switching accounts to Kasikorn Bank, it's good to hear that it's the same procedure with them. Why? I have never done this. Nobody ever asked for this.

I can confirm this

The problem with this method is that you will have 2 FD tranches (a poster in another thread called them "contracts") with 2 different dates of maturity, but in the same bank book. In this case the bank book will state 800,000, but the statement for immigration may only state one tranche, i.e. only 400,000. I just had this problem with Bangkok Bank at CW, and the poster I mentioned had the same problem somewhere else. Bangkok Bank at CW refused to issue me a statement of 800,000, only one tranche (which was 600,000).

Any problems with that? Or can I just do it?

I have the same problem with Bangkok Bank: 2 contracts in one fixed-deposit bank book, with different dates of maturity. The statement they would give states only a balance of one of the 2 contracts, less than 800,000. Their letter, though, stated the full balance. That's what I showed Immi.

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Easier on the body - never heard about this, i doubt it Less resistances- yes, sure Should not be taken as the only therapy for your problem, as mentioned by others. Availability - in Bangkok easy, the usual well stocked pharmacies mentioned in many threads (e.g. Roongroj pharmacy between BigC Onnut or the smaller, not so crowded pharmacy opposite from Roongroj) all have it. Tourist pharmacies on lower Sukhumvit obviously not. Upcountry will be very difficult, even moxafloxacin is difficult to find upcountry.

Lose weight. Don't lift heavy things.

Yes, that's my plan

Today I received the approved mailed application. (It took only a bit more than a month) Now I am the proud owner of 2 *notification of 90 days": One that i printed out after doing it online (took a week), states next one is due July 24. One that I received by mail (took a month), states next one is due August 7th. :) I guess I try online on July 17.

Very good question. See next. Do they think it actually is a hernia, but they advise against operation? That would be difficult to understand. The result of surgery of an inguinal hernia is quite often unsatisfactory (meaning the patient had pain before the operation and he still has pain after operation). Nevertheless, unless there are some special risk factors for surgery operative treatment is the standard recommendation. Or do they think it isn't a hernia after all? Many surgeons whose income depends on the numbers of operations operate on non-existing inguinal hernias. The diagnosis can only made clinically, NOT by ultrasound or some kind of fancy MRI (fMRI). Ultrasound can be helpful to exclude swollen lymph nodes or a persistent ductus vaginalis, but it cannot prove the diagnosis of hernia. Find a surgeon who has no financial interest in your surgery (e.g. a surgeon working in a government hospital as a civil servant) and ask him for a diagnosis.

I know a Thai guy who uses a shortened 1-syllable form of his 2-syllable family name for written and spoken daily business correspondence. I am not talking about cheu len, he signs letters "first name + abbreviated form of family name". Is this common?

Thank you. Reading through your post, and through the posts of others, there actually is a complete list of all family names used in Thailand, even the foreign ones? And all THAI family names have a meaning? I didn't know that (I knew many have a meaning, didn't know that's a rule)

Heat disease is not a contraindication for mRNA vaccines. On the contrary, if you are in a risk group you should get the new bivalent vaccine, .

Thai first names, e.g. Somchai, are not unique and can easily be changed. I heard last names are unique for only one family (so they cannot be changed?), so the full name would be unique for only one person. Is this correct?

There are several good urologists in Thailand. They have been mentioned in your other threads. Unfortunately, I can also tell you quite a few lousy urologists. I don't know anything like a center of excellence specializing in your problem (actually, I do know one, in Germany - don't go there, you would waste your time). The reason is, urology is a subspecialty of surgery, you can't operate on bacteria. There is a poster on this board who is quite knowledgable about urologists from Australia to Britain, he answered you in the other threads already.

Generally excellent: the 2 places in Singapore resp. HK Urology: it depends again on the exact problem

In Asia: NUH Singapore as advised by Sheryl, or Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong. Outside Asia: definitely not Middle East, as has been said by Sheryl. Many European Hospitals (Insel Hospital Bern (for cancer of pancreas) and others, Switzerland; Charité Berlin (for cancer of bile ducts), University Hospital Heidelberg (for many diseases of the brain) and others, Germany; hospitals in France and so on ad infinitum - it really depends on your condition) The leading Thai doctors in a field can tell you where in the world are the top specialists of this field

5mg daily is a regular, long-time medication for benign prostate hypertrophy. So if 5mg is enough for you, it's probably ok. I don't know whether higher doses can be taken regularly.

I was going to write the same.

They never bothered to answer or send anything back. I got approved online, and the mail application entered nirwana

Sikarin Hospital is not too bad. Samitivej Srinakarin has a good neurologist but it may be far from where you live.