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Quote: from LiamOZ on 1:52 am on Mar. 10, 2006
Each time I am in LOS I ge the sore throat. Like you guys I put it down things like pollution, plane air, room air, and the mouths & pussies of TBGs.
I also have another symptom, and have had it almost every trip, ie: Night Sweats.
This really freaked me out at first because a friend told me this was a possible HIV symptom, but I've had clear tests, and don't bareback as a rule.
Frankly I think it's all the beer drinking, rooting, and spicy food.
It starts for me after about 5 days in LOS, and is fairly mild, but when I get home, I wake up completely 'sweat wet' body & hair, for at least a week.
I figure my body is just purging itself of all the LOS goodies, preparing me for around three 'vanilla' months at work.
Anybody else get this? Any other ideas about what it is?
Perhaps its a physical manifestation of my depression at leaving LOS.
Liam
Travelling around for several weeks anywhere in the kingdom I never have a sore throat.Eating only thai food from street foodstalls,drinks with icecubes,
cleaning teeth with tapwater etc.... no problem.The last 2 weeks of
my trip I usual stay in pattaya and yes, there it happens, after a few days I get the sore throat,sometimes followed by a
bacterial throat infecion with fever and headache.
result:a doctor visit and antibiotics.
Were do I get it? it's in the air,coughing fresh arrived farangs,pollution,airco....like said in previous posts
I suspect also the partybaloons,containing saliva from bargirls.Saliva,full of bacteria,breeding for hrs in the sun,
and exploding at midnight right over your head and drink...
LiamOZ,
about the night sweats: I never get them in LOS,only when i'm back home.
Waking up totally wet,water on your skin like just walked out of the shower.Can take a towel to dry my body.
What you decribe also happen to me,I also wonder what it is.
My guess it's the climatechange,.....the thai sun moving out of the body 
I must say it doesn't happen after every trip, just sometimes...so still guessing why....
but.... you not alone with this symptoms.
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Posted on: 9:29 am on April 3, 2006
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Loads of good, sound advice here on this thread, gents.
Had my tonsils ripped out when I was seven years of age.
Only trouble was that I had to wait 40 odd bloody years before I hit Bangkok. ( Not that I would have known how to handle anything at that age. )
No sore throats, unless I smoke ( cigarettes ) too much.
Waking up in a pool of sweat, one's imagination goes berserk.
But the absolute change of diet, change of climate, adjustment of body to radically different environments and climate, the sudden plunge into the cessation of daily mental and physical routines, and the sudden re-adopting of them, knowing that your intake of fluids is greater here in the tropics than at home, and not losing fluids from your body at the same rate as the increased input, all go towards a week or two of re-adjustment and settling down.
And all of this, on top of everything else that you are trying to get on top of.
No wonder visitors feel that they are on a roller-coaster of sorts.
Living here in Bangkok as I do, my sympathy goes out to those of you who only have the time to plunge in temporarily and quickly take the flight back home before your mind and your body can adjust to occasional health set-backs and settle down to take in the full delights of what is on offer here.
But then, not everybody wants to live in Thailand........
Well, O.K... maybe only one or two don't want to and the rest want to secure enough income in the West to finance the next series in their chain of visits and to make those visits worth-while. And of course, amongst all those people, there must be one or two married men with responsibilities back home.
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Posted on: 9:35 pm on April 15, 2006
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This tour, 12 days in BKK only, I only had one sore throat episode, right at the front (tonsils probably). I immediately dosed it with Diflam throat gargle (green fluid in 200ml (?) bottle about 280THB, 15ml every 4 hrs or so) and contuinued to use Vick's First Defence Nasal Spray (haven't seen it for sale in LOS) and the throat didn't take hold, diminishing quickly.
Also kept up my dietary supplements - Vit C, mulivitamin, garlic and cod liver oil (for joints), echinacea & zinc (immune system) and ginseng and ginko biloba (old age). Placebo effect? Who cares, works for me.
K.
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Posted on: 2:36 am on April 16, 2006
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