Interesting comments, George. Canada is getting a tad silly with prescription medications though not as bad as Stateside.
When in November are you looking at going yo Thailand. I was there in January 2018 and want to go back. Was only in BKK and really liked the vibe of the city.
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Crag. Thanks for the info. Love this fun website. Great way to keep members informed about silly things happening in LOS when they are too busy working or reading everything about our favorite Heaven of Happiness. Will keep posting interesting YouTube.com videos as I find them.Leave a comment:
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Will visit Thailand next November. Wonder if they have a long appointment waiting period like here in Honolulu. Will I be able to get my intramuscular pain and steroid shots the same day or within a week's stay in BKK? Thanks for the tip. Thailand is a great place for medical services. Got my teeth whitened in Pattaya South Road and my lower eyelid bags surgically removed at Yangee Hospital. My hotel receptionist quickly referred me there as it was supposed to be the best for cosmetic surgery. Didn't see any ladyboys there but lots of foreign young women there for nose jobs and face lifts. Got one cute Thai young girl in roller skates going round and round picking up and delivering notes. Funny to watch. Awfully cute nurses. Lots of them, and they are so happy and smiling. Once I got on a baht bus in Pattaya and a European gentleman was so happy to be able to afford a tooth extraction there. His face was swolllen on one side. They gave him pain killers and antibiotics. I wonder if Bumrungrad will Rx me some Vicodin (Hydrocodone) for my entire 2-month vacation. Right now in America the forking DEA changed the rules again. I can get only a month's supply and must pay a doctor's visit every month! My pain specialist will inject only my lower back and not my neck area and shoulder. I must return two more times for them at $130.00 co-payment each! Fork the DEA, really.
Last Sunday 60 minutes aired a report about China's fentanyl manufacturer and selling online. They mail it to Americans. Yes, some die. To tell you the truth the DEA is the one who is guilty of creating this opiod epidemic. By restricting good American's real need for medication for their real pain they are now desperate for some pain relief and will buy drugs on the black market just like junkies. China is only too willing to profit off our dumb government's problem solving responsibilities. These products are impure and they will die by overdosage. Now that we have to visit our doctors every month we cannot afford our medical needs. I paid $30 for an OV and $50 for 60 pills. Would you like to do this every month. This business of suing the drug companies is wrong. To inconvenient EVERYBODY to save us from ourselves is STUPID BULL SHIT. We huge numbers of war babies are now aging and we need pain relief. This dirtying of the word opiod is a DEA scam. What they should have done is get off their lazyboy chairs and seek out the doctors and their pill mills and shut them down. Lst week they did shut a doctor and his pill mill being run by his family members on the Big Island of Hawaii. Same place a huge volcane destroyed a community of homes at the southern tip of this island. Before that a community of Puna was covered with hot lava.They don't need to criminalize the entire nation. Stop throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The drug companies are wonderful to manufacture opiods and sell them to us. They are the heroes who will fill a need. The DEA is stupid, stupid, and stupid.
Anybody ever try to fill a prescription for Vicodin in Thailand? Is it just a standard office visit and fill a prescription in the hospital pharmacy? Or are they now copying the stupid American solution? I have always carried my Vicodin supply with me. I count them and make sure I eat all of them by my return departure time. Hate the customs stupid questions and refusal to acknowledge that it is in a pharmacy container with the pharmacy's name. Bet you they won't even call my doctor if I gave them my name. So what I will do from now on is carry a doctor's letter acknowledging my drug is legit. Fork the customs. They love to steal anything just because they are jealous I'm traveling while they are stuck working.Last edited by George Pill; 05-02-2019, 06:15 PM.Leave a comment:
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I had to go to Burumgrad 3 years and half ago. This is a top quality hospital. I had been sent to the right department rapidly and the welcome was royal. I wish ladyboys be inspired by the Burumgrad's staff politeness.Leave a comment:
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Will visit the Pattaya Hospital to see if they can give me steroid/pain killer shots IM for my lumbar back and neck aches and pains. My pain specialist wants to Jew me by making me come in three times for back, shoulder, and neck shots at US$130 per. Hope a doctor in Thailand's hospitals can do all three areas in one visit. Seems my health insurance covers treatment in Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok (walking distance form Nana Plaza) and Pattaya Hospital. Good.Leave a comment:
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As far as I can remember there has always been heavy traffic in all of Asia when I started traveling there in 1972. I wasn't in VM because I was 4F. Lucky. Hate to shoot people who look like me. Would never have forgiven myself.
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Look at this website. There was smog in LA even when I was born. Better enjoy the world now. It is getting even worse. Even the people. The world is getting more and more racist and selfish. Thailand seems to have much less of it. Gotta enjoy this wonderful paradise before I expire. Have seen a few invalid white men in wheel chairs with young happy Thai girls to care for them. Witnessed them in Central Festival. Thought they were married. With things so cheap it can't be hard to find some cute chicks and just train them to be your personal nurses.Just leave them a nice monetary gift when you leave.
I hear the medical care in Bangkok's Bumrungrad Hospital is good. Went to Yangee Hospital for surgical removal of my lower eye lid bags. Reminds me of a veterinary clinic. Saw lotsof cute Thai nurses just wasting time happily chatting with each other. Even got a cute young gal on roller skates delivering messages and mail. Service was very efficient and friendly. Yangee is famous for breast implants and sex change surgery. Didn't see any ladyboys but there were a few gals undergoing nose jobs. Only saw white bandages covering their noses with some bluish bruising around it the peripheral area. Wish I could watch their surgeons because I am one.
A piece of advice. If you need drugs you don't really need a doctor's signed prescription. I have been able to get Ampicillin 500 mg and Cipro from the pharmacies easy. Even got pre-Diabetes Metformin, Anti-cholesterol Lipitor, diuretic Lasix, Tamulosin (prostate) pills without any problems. They know how to match the American names with their Thai products. Just costs a bit more. So if you get venereal diseases or skin infections you can just tell them what your problem is, and they will select your need. Good to beat the American system of getting a doctor's approval for drugs. That's extortion.
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I live in BKK 4 months each year...the rest of the time I'm based near Chicago,USA...when the snow starts falling I usually go to Thailand until it seems to have stopped
...I happen to love big cities and have also lived in Paris and L.A....traffic sucks in all 3 places but I've just resigned myself that it will take an hour to get someplace 10 miles away
...Paris has great mass-transit,L.A. doesn't,BKK is not bad and getting better every year...I enjoy the buzz and energy that 7-12 million people create when kinda packed together...it's not everyone's cup of tea though...just my 2 cents
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Glad I don't live there.
It's already too late to do anything about this. Too too many cars. Soon Pattaya is next? Smog was there when I left December 23. Worries me if Songkran will be like this as we near summer. Pray you didn't buy any real estate and move there.
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