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Thank you much, Schoggibueb. I will pass on the info. Cheers! Appreciate your time...

Appreciate it, F. I'll tell him: no chix.

Many thanks! I will pass on the info!

Hi BritManToo...good question. I will ask him. Thank you for your input.

Sheryl! I was hoping you would respond. I had told my friend about the great advice you had given me in the past and that I would make the inquiry on his behalf. I, of course, meant Achilles tendon, as I'm sure you surmised. You are fantastic and lickety-split in responding. A real treasure. Thank you. I will pass on the info ASAP. Would one expect different pricing at the different facilities, do you think?

Hi all, I'm asking this question for a good friend of mine who is also in Chiang Mai. He has had recurring issues in both his Achilles heels whereby they become injured with what seems a pull and then he is housebound for 2 months or more. He's had it twice in both feet. I know, it sounds ridiculous but he is just getting over an episode such as this (hopefully). It is real and I have seen it with my own eyes. Pushing himself around on his wheelie chair with his uninjured foot, in his 5th floor walk up apt., he actually injured the good foot/heel from the added stress. Crazy. Just for some back-story, he used to play a lot of basketball which he thinks is the problem. He is about 47 and doesn't eat meat (but does eat fish). I only add this last part thinking that perhaps he needs more protein and the like. He has seen a doctor in CM in the past but was unimpressed. He has also seen some specialists at the Mayo clinic in the US and some doctors in Singapore but so far, no one has been able to help him. He has it in his head that the doctors/hospitals are much better in Singapore than here in Thailand. I'm not sure that's true. Cutting to the chase: does anyone have recommendations on who he could consult here in Chiang Mai to start and then in Bkk if that is more suitable? Thank you kindly! Bamboozled.

Thank you Doctor!

I'm uninformed on TM8. Is that the re-entry permit? I'll do some sleuthing on the gov. website. I'm sorry to bog you down with endless questions. I will probably go to Immi here in Chiang Mai to get the re-entry permit before leaving as it worries me last minute at the airport. Hopefully, the missing 90 report doesn't come into play. Thank you.

You know, I DID forget, so thank you for the reminder! Let's hope I remember when it comes time to leave. I think I can also get it directly at the airport before crossing "to the other side", yes? In the past, I've always had the multi-entry and it was never an issue. Not my normal MO. After more than 20 years here, the 90 day report is also pretty new to me and partly why I screwed it up. Not part of my normal MO.

Good call! Thanks so much. Hmm, just doing the extension doesn't automatically reset the 90 day report? Am I understanding that correctly? (I didn't get any Asean notifications in my email so forgot to check back!)

Thank you, Dr. Jack. You've been many times helpful to me. Much appreciation for that. My first 90 day report upon return will be 90 days after my entry stamp, correct? Well, come to think of it, my retirement visa will need to be renewed before that time so moot point. Cheers!

Shoot...could have sworn I put it in my computer calendar to remind me but nothing doing. It was due beginning of June and now here we are July 9th and Immi is closed for 2 days for Buddha holiday. I assume they have my last report in the computer, yes? I'm also thinking I should go to Immi drive through first chance possible and face the music (2000 baht fine and stern look?) but I'm also due to leave the country for a spell beginning of August. What are the chances nothing happens if I wait and just go through Immi at the airport when leaving the country? I've read some posts on here intimating that as a possiblity. Would that wipe things clean or could it be that when I try to re-enter in September I could be in for some trouble? I'm in Chiang Mai. Apologies for the boring, too oft repeated topic. Thank you kindly and I wish all a grand evening. And let me remind myself: I'm grateful to be living in Thailand and enjoying its wonders. (A friend and I are exchanging emails everyday for a month where we list 3 things for which we are grateful. It can be whatever, from profound to petty. Thus, my comment about being grateful to be living in Thailand. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that it's pretty good here and we're lucky and it's def not a ditch in Ukraine underneath a sky full of drones and bombs)

Chiang Mai. It didn't count for me. Hmm, I might have dug my own grave, as it were. I put my date of entry as August (the true date of entry) and not the date I got the visa extension. The officer told me the extension doesn't count but perhaps it wouldn't have been an issue if I had put the extension date. But that would not have been a truthful answer to when I entered Thailand. I'm 2000 baht lighter now. That much I know.

This is surely all over the forum but I missed this info somehow. So I'm repeating it here in case it benefits somebody. I got a visa extension about 3 months ago and thought that would count as a 90 day report. When I went to do my 90 day report recently, surprise to me, I had to pay 2000 baht for overstay. My last entry into Thailand was in August and that's when the 90 days started. My visa extension in September had no bearing on it. It doesn't really make sense to me as the visa extension goes a lot further in proving where you are and what you are doing. But alas, it seems the two systems operate independently. Take heed.

Hello friends, Is this border crossing currently open for an exit Thailand/Re-enter Thailand with new stamp scenario? This would be two Yanks. One with retirement visa the other has some kind of a tourist entry. This would be toward the latter part of next month, December. Info online was, per usual, extremely scattered/old/impossible to interpret. Many thank! Bamboozled.