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  1. Check your B12 levels. Sometimes necessary to add sublingual B12 as older people may gave trouble absorbing it orally (but if your levels are normal, no need)
  2. Easy and inexpensive to have doctor remove with cryo. And safer/more effective than these home remedies.
  3. You can't book sppointment for the public channel. Only the after hours clinic. Which can also be accessed as a walk in.
  4. Also a statin and in non-consistent doses so no advantage over taking a statin .
  5. There are 2 options, the regular public channel and the after hours clinic. However if they agree need for biopsy, will likely not do it in after hours clinic and refer you to public clinic on another day anyhow (that is what happened to me...wasted a 5 hour wait and 500 baht fee in the after hours clinic only to be directed to public channel on the following day. Well maybe not complete waste as I did get a fixed appointment for the next day which might otherwise have taken more time to arrange.). My advice is to just show up by 7 AM, go to the OPD (I think 8th floor but double-check). Get a number and wait. Bring plenty of reading material. It is a government hospital so things are not quick, and if they decide you need a biopsy appointment for that would likely be on a different day, and wait time to get biopsy results is about a month. Regarding appointment dates it is possible to negotiate a bit if they try to give you one many days or weeks hence - explain that you do not live in Bangkok etc. I paid 700 baht for the excision & biopsy, public channel
  6. Make sure that LDL is a direct measure and not an indirect calculation as with your lower than average triglycerides indirect LDL calculation might not be accurate
  7. You might also try a contact lens prescription designed to yield mono vision i.e. one eye for distance and one for up close.
  8. Bempedoic Acid (Nexletol) is both very new and not available in Thailand. Which is likely why your doctor had not heard of it. You mention only your LDL, are triglycerides OK? Simvastatin and atorvastatin are both lipidophilic statins and that class of statins are more apt to cause or aggravate nerve pain. It might be worth trying a hydrophilic statin such as rosuvastatin as they are less likely to cause this effect. the other type of drug that might be considered is sustained release nicotinic acid. It used to be available as brand name Niaspan in Thailand but is now off market, but various brands can be purchased form iHerb as "nutritional supplements" (make sure it is the sustained release form) https://th.iherb.com/search?kw=nicotinic acid sustained release. However discuss with your neurologist first whether this would be safe in terms of your neuro condition. In terms of doctors, I suggest: https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/doctors/rachanon-murathanun
  9. This is a serious medication with significant pitential adverse effects. Not recommended to use just as a sleep aid. OP Sominar works for many peoplw but try it out before you travel as it makes some people groggy afterwards.
  10. Cologuard brand probably not but the large international hospityals may have some sort of Fecal Immunoassay Test (FIT). As a point of comparison: Detection of cancer: >99% with colonoscopy, about 92% with FIT Detection of polyps: >99% with colonoscopy, about 40% with FIT polyp removal: possible with colonoscopy, not possible with FIT Simple tests for occult blood, much less accurate than FIT
  11. Biggest limitation is that it may usually will mit drtect (much less remove) polyps. Colonoscopy is far superior.
  12. Yes it explains it. People with SS are entitled to emergency care at any hospital, including private, for up to 72 hours. It is not given free, the hospital gets reimbursed by SS. (But at SS rates which is less than normal private hospital charge). System is not always correctly implemented by private hospitals though. Luckoly in your case it was.
  13. I have no idea why you were not charged. Normally would be. Unless she had Thai SS from (past or present) employment in Thailand.
  14. Trang likely has the the "hub hospital" for thrombolytic treatment in this Health Region (Region 11). Government hospitals do not have their own helicopters. Private hospitals sometimes (but nto always) do. The recently expanded "Sky Doctor" system is managed by the Ministry of Public Health system and covers the more remote Health Regions, including Region 11.
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