Question to GP Maarten: High blood pressure and medication?
Blood pressure remains a problem… after the debacle of the Exforge HCT 10mg / 160mg / 12,5mg which gave me the much too low blood pressure of around 80/60, I went back on my old meds.
I plan to eventually move to Thailand, in the north of Thailand. So halfway between Loei and UdonThani. But since I take a lot of medication I wonder if these would all be available there?
I am very happy with the fast effect of the Finasteride. But now I notice that around the start of taking this medicine I got swollen ankles. That lasted about 3 days, and is now much less, but still: still retaining some moisture.
Question to general practitioner Maarten: Can I continue taking my medication indefinitely?
Man, 69 years old, 171 cm, temporarily 80 kilos (normally 75) due to circumstances. Problems with sinus, asthma, skin, osteoarthritis, prostate and blood flow in legs. Don't smoke, drink wine now and then.
Can someone recommend a pharmacy in Korat?
I entered Thailand with a Visa Exemption. This time I adhered to the allowed amount of medication. I can pick up my applied for Non immigrant-O at the Immigration of Korat in two weeks. Where I live there are 3 medicines not available.
I will soon be going on holiday to the Netherlands from Thailand and because I use various medicines, including for blood pressure and diabetes, my question is do I need certain documents if I want to take them with me on the plane?
My husband has been taking Alfuzosin 10 mg for many years. Despite this, he has to urinate many times throughout the day, in the evening after 18 pm he no longer drinks afraid of having to go to the toilet in the night.
I am E., 57 years old and will soon be moving permanently to Thailand. I take the following blood pressure medication in Europe.
Question to general practitioner Maarten: Are these medicines easily available in Thailand?
Question to GP Maarten: Medicines for muscle rheumatism make me dizzy, tired and cause pain in my lower legs
I've been back in Thailand for 2 weeks now and notice that if I bend over slightly, I immediately get dizzy. I am very very tired after walking up 2 flights of stairs (14 steps). My lower legs feel like they have a very tight bandage wrapped around them. Been suffering from this for a long time.
What strikes me is that the prices per Pharmacy differ quite a bit. How is that possible?
And you don't get a leaflet with anything. There is also no question about allergies. Isn't that dangerous? In the Netherlands alone, 17.000 to 20.000 deaths occur every year due to wrong medicines or medical errors [with medicines],” said a forensic doctor in the NRC two years ago.
Maarten Vasbinder lives in Isaan. His profession is general practitioner, a profession that he mainly practiced in Spain. On Thailandblog he answers questions from readers who live in Thailand. Do you have a question for Maarten and do you live in Thailand? Send this to the editors: www.thailandblog.nl/contact/ It is important that you provide the correct information, such as: Age Complaint(s) History Medication use, including supplements, etc. Smoking, alcohol Overweight Possibly laboratory results and other tests Possibly …
The Thai pharmaceutical industry
Have you ever been to a country where there are more pharmacies and pharmacy stores than in Thailand? Even in the smallest hamlet you can find a kind of Winkel van Sinkel that sells an assortment of medicines in addition to daily necessities.
Question to GP Maarten: Omicron contamination and I take Favira but I don't feel good about it
Now I have contracted covid-19 with only minor runny nose and sore throat. An x-ray picture has been taken. Get doctor's advice now to take 9 tablets of Favira at a time, twice a day. Repeat after 2 days. I don't feel comfortable with that.
I have prostate cancer with bone metastases and have had 22 chemos. Stopped now, would like to go to our home in Thailand and I don't have much time left. I use the drugs Abstral 100 MI FENTANYL for sublingual and FENTANYL SANDOZ MATRIX PATCHES 37 UG. Now my question is, is there an alternative to these medicines in Thailand because I can go on holiday for 90 days and then I have to take a lot with me and I think it will cause problems at customs.
I recently asked you a question about my use of medication in the Netherlands and whether these are also available in Thailand. I asked Jeanine Hermanussen of AA Insurance in Bangkok if she could submit this to a pharmacy there. I got the following response.
My wife and I intend to settle permanently in Waeng Yai in Isaan next year. I am currently 69 years old and have been on medication since a heart attack in 2014 and a neck hernia in 2008.