What's your beef with Liverpoool? I'm actually now living in Wales, guess I need to update.

Re: jabs, did you read the part where I said I'd be going to Cambodia and Laos too?

im just a k8nt
jabs are overated, just a ploy to weaken everyone immune system and make even more profits for big pharma etc etc Illuminati etc etc. Just never ride on a motobike in thailand and you will be fine

4 star hotel no way. 3 star yes.

What's the best way to play travel insurance?

Have u had vaccine against hep B??
Do you want him to catch hepB and destroy his life?
Its easy to get it from hookers.

Hep B is pretty common across SEA, even in the normal non hooker population, very easy to catch too. Just get the jab if you plan on shipping girls full stop, no matter what their background is.

I have stuff when I was younger but now I rarely any sort of medication for anything. Aspirin, paracetamols etc dont take anything but the diarrhea tablets if I have to leave the house.

I dont want him to catch HepB, I wouldn't want anybody to catch anything dangerous. Kids these days are having up to 20 different types of injects before there 6 years old and you here more and more cases of these kids having problems when there older. It all gets swept under the rug and hidden from the mainstream media because its big business.

Some vaccines you need to take every x amount of years, but if you catch the actual disease once and many are treatable, you will never get it again.

Not telling him what to do just giving him information and from that he can make up his own mind. Although I did tell him he doesn't need it, and pretty sure he will be fine w/o taking them.

Mate stop talking bollocks and encouraging people not to take vaccines, not taking them is a bad idea,they are required. He should go and see his GP and ask him what he/she thinks and which ones to have.

Docs have nothing to do with the 'pharma scam' and treat based on what is required, nothing more nothing less.

im just not a fan on them and i will admit what I say is biased as I hate any type of medications for the most part. I would not say what I posted is bollocks, yeah the GP will tell him to take the vaccinations. The books the GP and doctors read to get there degrees etc are made by the same people who are pushing these drugs.

Watch documentaries like "sicko" which although is biased in some ways, but will show you what a whole con alot of medication is.


http://healthisahabit.wordpress.com/...-drugs-to-you/

link to doctors getting paid commission to push certain drugs.

hep a/hep b are good for life so worthwhile imo
I got typhoid $50, and updated tetanus $30

can check cdc for whats recommended (doctor will check same site)
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/thailand.html

here's malaria info:
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/drugs.html

can anyone recommend a thai boxing camp that they have been to. will be looking to do two months+ at a camp early next year. i am thinking chiang mia but open to other suggestions. also will be looking for a hotel or serviced apartment relatively close to the camp with grindable net although i will be renting a bike so proximity is not be that big a problem. would pay $30-$40 pn for the hotel.

cheers

http://www.muaythaisasiprapa.com/about.php


thats a top gym but its not in a great location from bars/clubs and stuff. If your training every day they do offer dorms and stuff. My brother and my friends all train here, one of the best gyms in bkk.


http://www.jittigym.com/
another one that i know people who visit, maybe a slightly better location but still a bit out the way. There one in ekkamai but its not meant to be that great.

Im checking one out tomorrow, prob pawn a few somchais, let you know if the place I go to tomorrow any good na

Ok now your talking utter bollocks.

Here is a link to the NHS recommendations on holiday vaccines. These guidelines are put together by experts in the field of tropical diseases, STD's etc.

The NHS is skint and it certainly isn't going to pay for vaccines it does not see as necessary. Stop putting people at risk of catching unnecessary diseases by spreading your extreme opinion that would not be shared by doctors and people who know what they are talking about.

http://www.nhs.uk/Planners/vaccinati...lvaccines.aspx

NHS, there horrible, were I lived they were going to close down a hospital because it was so dirty patients were getting ill from how dirty it was. It was all over the news im sure you saw it too. They already trying to privatise the NHS, and what does it mean when they want to privatise something, its for profit only. £6 an hour to park you car to see your own sick family, food super overpriced, its cheaper to put people in the Hilton then to go to a hopsital in the UK and visit them and buy em some food from the food court downstairs.

What im saying is not bollocks its just another point of view, I dont agree with what your say but im not saying what your posting is bow ****e, hopefully the guy who asked the question can see both sides and make up his own mind. By saying everything i post is bollocks just shows your lack of reason and you cant accept that parts of what I said may be correct, Im not denying what your saying all incorrect, but not all of its true.

I'm not saying anything, I just quoting what medical opinion says. Your opinion on this matter is basically worthless unless your a Doctor and not telling us that?

yeah well the way I see it its just as worthless as the doctors, as like I said the books and journals there doctors read to pass there exams were written by the same people who make the drugs. Just ask yourself when you go to the doctors why they always will offer you a drug, but never mention any type of fruit or natural food or herbal extract or anything. Well only the good drs will offer you more then drugs as a cure option.

But it looks like we both have different views on the subject which is cool, but the bashing of my opinion which may be flawed in areas just as much as yours, is not cool na

also maybe its time you starting find information out your self instead of quoting and just taking what a medical opinon says as the truth, this is the problem with the world, were all sheep, we dont question anything. As a good rage against the machine song says "believing all the lies that there telling ya, buying all the products that there selling ya"

lol @ thinking because someone is a doctor they are an expert. I agree with PE on this one. Just because someone goes to medical school and learns what the school teaches them does not mean what the school teaches is 100% fact and in a business that is as big as the pharmaceutical industry people are always influenced by money.

Having said that, Hep B vaccination is probably good.

You heard it here first guys, randoms on the internet know more than travel specialist doctors about vaccines

This forum has everything

go ask your doctor about vaccinations. every country has different ones in school/army programs etc.

mine told me to get hep a+b and some japanese fever thingy.

i know 2ppl in phuket who have had hepatitis and it didn't look/sound fun

I'm liking your UK-centric advice Vish.

What's your story, why are you in Thailand? I'm guessing it's for poker but you can grind in the UK too..

Nah, just a regular holidaymaker to Asia mate.

VV just because someone is a doctor doesn't necessarily make them right. If a random person offers a better argument then their background shouldn't be an issue. Doctors definitely don't always make the right recommendations and pushing medications does happen.

That being said most vaccines are very helpful and you can prove it with simple statistics. Simply look at how many serious diseases were eradicated since the introduction of vaccines across the populations in the West. Anyone arguing not to take Hep B or Hep A shots when you are traveling to Thailand is pretty ******ed. A shot is fairly cheap and catching Hep B is pretty serious like AIDS. Except that catching Hep B is quite easy, yet nearly 100% preventable with a simple injection.

We agree, so why the fk are you arguing with me apart from to stick up for your mate who was giving out bad advice to newbs?

So what's your story? You've been a bit of a mainstay in this thread IIRC so you must have been in Thailand for a while. Are you just living off savings out there? Teaching? Tell me to piss off if you don't like this prying though, I'm just trying to get an idea of how and why people took the leap.

I've never been travelling on my own before you see.

Not arguing with you. You're right that you should take shots before you come to Thailand and you're right to call him a dumb ass.

I often argue with people, even my parents, not to take certain drugs, but to change your lifestyle instead. A friend of mine who is I'd say morbidly obese takes a large amount of pills on a daily basis as prescribed by his doctor. The doctor won't advise him to change his diet instead, because he isn't allowed to do so. When I tell my friend to change the way he eats, he tells me I don't know more than his doctor and that he's really sick and I should back off. It's just really annoying when people reason that simply because a person ' studied' everyone else by default is wrong.