MrPhysio

An added question for the group. What is required for motorvehicle and motorcycle 5 year licenses to update when a new passport has been issued, changing the number on the actual license? And will there a a charge to do so? Is it necessary to update if both the old and new passports are carried together? Cheers.

True about BPH. (Benign prostate hyperplasia - can show up as low pressure urine flow and frequent need to visit the toilet overnight to urinate). Cialis (Tadalafil) usually found to be most convenient as it lasts longer in the system and requires less planning). However, some people find the extra ingredient in Cialis can cause side effects such as muscle ache including in the back - varies with individuals and can be dose dependent. Be aware - many medications are coated and cannot be cut into pieces as doing so can alter the dosage unpredictably and/or not work correctly because the active ingredients are destroyed by the gastric juices before being absorbed correctly. Do not take any of the above as medical advice. Seek correct information for your case from medically certified practitioners.

Ban everything and everyone who smokes or creates smoke. It is a killer.

Correct. The brain does not fully recover from a moderate to serious closed head injury and earlier dementia is highly likely to occur along with other memory and personality changes. Note: Multi orthopaedic acure trauma and neurological as well as Sports rehabilitation were my areas of training. The best self defence is to stay away from known dangers.

Yawn. A BBC report. First warning to expect nothing but woke anti Israel Pro Palestinian bias - not far removed from Al Jazeera propaganda (whose reporters keep showing up fighting on the side with Hamas). Second warning All the information and associated agencies are from the UN, including the South African case. The ICJ and ICC are puppets of the UN. UNRWA assists Hamas. if you see the letters UN, think: UN-professional UN- ethical UN-believable UN-democratic Feel free to add your own UN tags. Bottom line The UN and its agencies need to be disbanded in the same way the League of Nations was dismantled. The UN is now made up of rogue nations with an agenda that is anti democratic, anti semitic, pro Islamosocialist, and aiming for control, including via the WHO and other largd international organisations run by socialists. Be very careful believing any statements originating from these agencies as the data pumped out by them is formulated for misinformation and to control populations. It is difficult to know what is fact or fiction, but try to retain commonsense and note when the fact checkers force retractions, sometimes months or years after the damage has been done.

I disagree. The dogs I am aware of, and those attacking and stalking humans are being fed by humans. Therefore, the humans are exacerbating the soi dog problems. If people wish to travel around feeding these diseased and nuisance dogs which are not in the feeders own area or backyard, then they are creating the problem for other humans. Let the do gooder feeders take the dogs to their own homes and look after them rather than extending the problems for others. And anyone answering that there are too many dogs for the do gooders to take home, that proves my point. The dog problem is out of control - as are those people who are adding to the problem.

Yes, they do attack without warning and reason. I know from personal experience. The dog issue in Thailand is out of control, and not helped by ‘do gooders’ feeding soi dog packs that menace humans on a daily basis.

My experience in physiotherapy included intensive care, closed head injury and multi orthopaedic trauma rehabilitation. When head injuries occur, 34% of the injuries are to the face and jaw owing to open faced helmets. Helmets can also reduce brain twisting damage and concussion that may occur even at low speeds. I ride a motor bike in Thailand (not a scooter), and used to have multiple bikes in Australia, including big bikes, plus I earned my living as a motor bike courier at one stage. Thailand requires a very different skill set and orientation despite what you may be used to in your home country. I always wear bike protective gear for on and off road, even for the shortest trips. Even road rash is a major hassle. Wishing you all safe riding. Remember, even the accident that is not your fault can ruin your day and maybe your life. Gear up.

For everyone's safety, tourist and thai, plus improve the water quality, all the Soi dogs need to be removed. It is officially recognised that the dogs are diseased, flea and worm ridden, which causes them to become irritable and dangerous. Their waste is washed into drains and out to sea or the reservoirs. Tourists are chased off pavements onto the road in front of traffic, or packs of dogs run at people. Howls, barking and fights throughout the night and early mornings. Those feeding and watering the dogs are making the problem worse. The excuse for not desexing or culling these animals is that it goes against the Buddha teachings. Yet people who abandon the animals when moving house or when the animal is sick and vet bills cannot be paid, are causing the animal harm in much bigger anti Buddha ways. All dogs should be licensed, immunised, and tagged with identification and owners fined. And before that occurs, clean up the problem. Driving North it is common to see the dog road kill. Do not use Buddha as an excuse - the problem is out of control. Too many dog attacks occur. For instance, there are many aggressive dogs around Pratumnak, including around the new Fishermans Village, Police Station near Big Buddha, the bus parking area, and most side Soi. It is time for Pattaya City to once again deal with the problem as they had to do once before in Pratumnak. Urgently. Please.

Interesting set of answers. The ‘article’ is a sponsored advertisement from Cigna. An advertisement is not going to cover the negatives compared to the positives. Bottom lines: 1. Know your pre-existing conditions and expect an interpretation that the condition will bar you from a payout, no matter how insignificant. 2. You already know your age. If over 70, there is very little hope for you to obtain a policy worth the premium or risk of refused payouts. 3. If you have the money for a very expensive policy, you may as well self insure, by putting aside a chunk of income for unforeseen illness treatment. 4. The bigger the hospital bill the harder an insurer/underwriter will try to find a way not to pay. 5. Insurers get you to list major pre-existing conditions, because they tag your conditions to a long list of other risks you do not know about and then you have claims refused. 6. Failure to disclose a risk will be used against you, even if you did not realise that minimal or trivial risk could be tagged to other problems. 7. People are warned about under insuring, but there is no way to fully insure for all eventualities, even if you could afford it. 8. And once you declare anything, it is on your record for life and will be used to deny your claim. 9. If you still wish to insure, check websites for your intended insurer which show listed difficulties people have when claiming, along with long approval delays. There are websites that independently rate and list claims problems along with the poor behaviour of some companies. Note: some companies provide false testimonials on their websites, to balance or counter the real complaints. Other insurers are known scammers with small offices and registered in very dodgy locations. Do your research and try not to get caught - including by the bigger companies where there are well documented scandals associated with illegal or questionable claim denials.

If you wish to quote compromised sources, that is up to you. My sources, in my understanding and constant reviews, indicate that the majority of news agency reports are compromised and one way or another use incorrect data. Hamas falsifies death figures repeatedly claiming their dead fighters to be children or women, identifying Gazan deaths as caused by the IDF instead of by their executions or human shield deaths. Who began the war(s), who initiated the October 13 2023 deaths, who blew up buses full of Israeli and Arab children, who killed a dozen Druze children by a rocket into a playground, who commits war crimes by placing explosives under houses, schools and hospitals, who teaches children in UNWRA schools to hate and wish to kill Israeli’s, who supplies the children with suicide belts????????

Hmmm. Many posters in this thread should define hatred by looking in the mirror. It would be good if people checked and identified known propaganda sources before commenting. Al Jezzera is not a credible news agency - with previously identified ‘journalists’ involved in terror activities, including October 13 2023. The Palestinian Authority has frequently supplied proven bogus death figures quoted by the UN, where much later the UN has revised down the exaggerated numbers. The UN agencies such as UNWRA members have been identified colluding/assisting Hamas terrorists. The UN has admitted that it stopped the distribution of aid supplies into Gaza, despite Israel supplying many aid trucks. The majority of photographs of starving children are fake, unverified, yet displayed by terrorist sympathiser media and those complicit with blood libel tactics. Please try to separate fact from fiction by suspending the hate fostered in you by manipulators of the truth. Jordan does not want those falsely calling themselves ‘palestinians’ as this group is known as trouble makers across the Arab world, especially Jordanians and Egyptians who took them in the past. The ‘palestinians’ have consistently refused every proposed two state solution. They openly call for a one state solution by taking over Israel and killing the population including the 20% of Israeli Arab population as they want a world caliphate that the terrorists only want for their brand of Islam, and that excludes all non muslims and muslims not of the terrorist persuasion. If you do not believe me, look it all up to self verify, but not from the terrorist supporting sources.

Declaration: I have been bitten by a dog on my leg near the Big Buddha facility and required expensive Rabies vaccine plus wound dressings. It does not stop there. I live in Pratamnak Hill zone where every Soi, bus parking area, vacant lot has a pack of dogs that bark and howl all hours of the day and night. These packs run at tourists and residents alike, including women with babies in pushers, forcing people to panic and run onto the road. I have had dogs run at me barking, growling, and getting the pack to join in. This is happening all around the new Fishing Village complex, and the management of my accommodation state that the City refuses to do anything to stop and or remove the animals. People from other areas come on scooters with food and water for the dogs and the fishing village lets the animals hang around in their large carpark. I am not talking about one or two pests, but close to 30 animals on 3 streets where they guard their territories. I see people with bandaged calf muscles, the dog bite favourite target snack. I hope those feeding the dogs come here and take the pest dangerous animals to their own homes instead of aggravating the existing problem here for the rest of us. Instead, they smirk and continue to encourage the problem in someone else's neighbourhood. I implore the local government department to shift the animals or cull them, as a warning. And to fine people feeding the animals, because the dogs breed, increase the problem for everyone via attacks, disease spread, and noise pollution. And the usual dog lover responses to comments like mine will be ignored as part of the problem, unless the dog lovers come here and rehouse these animals somewhere else. Note: I recently travelled North and saw many dogs dead on roads hit by cars. The dogs in my neighbourhood run onto the streets and that has cars, trucks, and buses using their horns at all hours of the day and night to shift dogs off the road. So, lovers, come here and rescue your favoured animal before it gets hit, bites someone, or forces someone to run in front of a car. Authorities and businesses in the area, do something to address the problem.

Two stages here. 1. Avoid being bitten. Use insect repellant and clothing to cover exposed areas. 2. If bitten THEN use Ivermectin. If you expect to be in areas where sandfly bites could be possible, then thinking ahead is a good idea. The Ivermectin needs to be more preplanned if travelling as an after bite precaution and the insect spray/lotion as a preventative. People can be bitten despite having insecticide if you have been in water, sweating, wiping presprayed skin via clothing etc or missing skin during application. Best to be prepared, especially if you know you are an insect magnet.