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27-01-2006, 00:37
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Annual Medical Checks
You are overweight.You eat too much.You drink too much alcohol.
 Yes that probably sums up a lot of BMs.  But,on a serious note,I went today and did a yearly physical at the Bangkok Phuket Health Centre in the Hospital.Several of my customers had got it done and so I decided to try it.  The service was good and they ran a full spectrum of diaganostic tests,ie: bloods,urine,stool,ECG,blood pressure/pulse,and chest X ray.  After an hour everything was ready for the doctor to give me his interpretation of their findings.He didn't pull any punches and went through the results one by one telling me the whys and wherefores.  It was well worth doing (special offer only 2900 Baht) and I now have a local hospital with my medical records on computer. 
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27-01-2006, 01:26
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good idea crustacian,
and i am sure comign from a thai doctor, he must shake his head sometimes at the shape he sees some of us farangs, not that im saying that about you. also, would like to say, it is really great having someone like you posting more on this board. give a great perspective on things and your attitude is a welcome addition with your added prescence on here. i will be stopping by your place in april to have a few. see you then
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27-01-2006, 01:36
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I GO FOR A CHECKUP 2 TIMES EVRY YEAR..........ITS THE SAME RESULTS EACH TIME.........SO I GO DIETING AND EATING GOOD FOR 4-6 WEEKS AND THEN ITS BACK TO MY OLE WAYS
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27-01-2006, 01:52
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27-01-2006, 14:13
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31-01-2006, 16:37
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Like a conveyor belt
This Health Centre is slick.
I no sooner had filled in the questionaire that I was in room one doing height,weight,eye test,pulse and blood sample in less than 5 minutes!  Room two was ECG then straight into room 3 for a chest X Ray.Another ten minutes. Last bit was go to the toilet and do the piss and stool jars.  I was then given a food voucher to go have a feed while all results were prepared for the doctor.I waited for one hour in the cafe and was called up stairs for my doctor's interview. I was in and out of the hospital building in two hours.
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01-02-2006, 03:28
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I also had my full medical check up today, but mine was slightly different, i arrived and found that nobody was expecting me although i had made the appointment 5 days before, had to sit for an hour before anyone came to see me.
Then the doctor could only speak portuguese, so another 20 minutes to find a translator, then it began with the usual weight/pulse/temp tests, (all were OK but i am slightly under height for my weight), then an ECG, the print out came and the doctors face had a strange look on it, obviously something wrong so he did another one, then a blood test for all sorts of stuff (probably cocaine and cannabis), then was handed 2 plastic tubs for the usual stuff, had a slash in the small one and was told to deliver the other one tomorrow. Then the final part was a hearing test and an eye test, these were done in the back of an ambulance with cars passing all the time, and i had to press a button every time i heard a noise so i think he just told me i passed and showed me some sort of chart which could have been absolutly anything, then the eye test was those E things on a computer and i had to say which way they were pointing, sat about 3 yards away and surprisingly i passed that also .The other thing i had to do was fill out the questionaire before i went in, one question: Average alcohol consumption? so i was thinking to myself, 3 weeks off, 21 days times lets say 14, thats 294, not much drink at work so i will forget about that, so that is 294 divided by 8 weeks equals 5.25 per day, final answer = 2 So all in all a good day, 4.5 hours in the clinic and no work managed thank Fu*k the next one is 3 years away, assuming i have passed this one. Simon
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01-02-2006, 03:57
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Seriously guys, you want to take some care of the body, as you dont want to be diagnosed with diabetes. I've had it now for about 4 years, and your medical checkups are every 3 months, and your life really does change.
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01-02-2006, 04:17
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diagnosed with diabetes 2 JAN this year
blood sugar 19.5 chol 8.4 you are right has changed my life heaps , no booze, shit food, tablets every day check sugar levels every day test after test pain in the butt
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01-02-2006, 04:19
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Welcome to the club Cliff. My blood sugar on diagnosis was 28.7
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01-02-2006, 05:09
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stevem thats high my doctor was freaking at 19.5
what beer u drinking now,they told me only 2 beers at a time twice a week
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01-02-2006, 05:29
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Back here in Sydney I'm not drinking at all, no time. Come home from work and then sit in front of the PC at home writting code into the wee hours of the morning. Was very high, but now I'm averaging mid 6's to mid 7's with the occassional 8 or 9, its OK. The only down side is I can no longer hold a pilots license, not that I've used for sometime, but I used to like to look at it.
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01-02-2006, 08:36
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[quote=Crustasian]You are overweight.You eat too much.You drink too much alcohol.
Yes that probably sums up a lot of BMs. Great advise Crustasian...but I would say everyone should go, not just the overweight etc. Like most blokes, I try never to go to the doctor, but 2 years ago I went to get a small skin cancer checked, while I was there the doc toke my blood pressure, its was so high he made me wear a moniter that toke my blood pressure every 30 minates for 24 hours. When I went back to get the results the doctor told me I had to start taking a blood pressure tablets, ..I said, Ill be right, I dont need that s#it, he said you could have a heart attack any minate looking at those results. I said, Im 42, not over weight, Im fit and I dont smoke. To that he said .......you know when you hear about some fit guy dyeing of a heart attack at 40 while going for a run......well your one of them. If it wasnt for that skin cancer I could be dead, cos I would have never gone for a check up........and then there would hundreds of thai cuties with broken hearts,.....and empty pockets. So Id say to eveyone get a check up now. Barflyrex
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01-02-2006, 08:50
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I used to suffer from hypertension as well, but the only good thing to come out of being a diabetic is that you are more aware of your body, and whats going on with it. After a while you can actually feel changes and you know instantly that something is not quite right.
I have a personal blood pressure monitor and use it daily, I'm happily on an average readings now of about 108/72 down from 150/110 or there abouts, and feeling heaps better for it.
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01-02-2006, 09:26
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Wow Steve .........That's a great result......you'll be competing in Triathlons son buddy Seriously though.....this is a great reading...........mine's about 120/80 and my doc reckons mine is good.........fer a short fat bald fella
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02-02-2006, 03:22
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my mom had heart problems her whole life. maybe 6-7 heart attacks, bypass surgery from say 48-73 when she died. ironically she died of renal failure which is a complication from diabetes which she was only diagnosed with much later in her life
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28-02-2006, 02:20
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Did you call for an appointment or jyst drop in in the morning
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28-02-2006, 02:26
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No appointments needed
You can just drop by and tell the reception that you want a check up.
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28-02-2006, 03:26
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How did the diagnosis come about. Did you have a test for some reason? Are there any symptoms?
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28-02-2006, 03:48
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Started of getting bad leg cramps in the middle of the night. When one night got severe cramps in both legs at the same time, apart from being bloody painful, I then realised that something was amiss. So off to the doctor first thing in the morning. The main things to watch out for are 1) constantly thirsty 2) sore eyes, blurred vision 3) odour in urine 4) cramping in lower legs 5) general pain and discomfort in legs
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28-02-2006, 03:58
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my mom, who was sick fro a long time, got diabetes later in life. one weekend she went through about 6 2 litre bottles of coke, we were ragging on her, but then found out
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28-02-2006, 07:24
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