Need to get some stitches removed

[Montree]

I need to get some stitches removed from a post operation wound. Any recomendations for a good place in Pattaya?

[Dodger]

I need to get some stitches removed from a post operation wound. Any recomendations for a good place in Pattaya?

If they're "minor" meaning just a few stiches in a non-sensitive area (like your arm or leg) you can go to any clinic (signs with large green cross). There's one on Soi VC across from Wat Chai Market...just ask around.

If you have a lot of stiches to be removed and/or the stiches are in a sensative part of your body...for instance your eye... ...just joking...I would suggest going to the Jomtien Hospital on Sukumvit Rd. (South Pattaya next to Chic Republic) to be safe. Google for directions.

Good luck

[Jun]

In 2017, I went to a small clinic on Sip Chet. They charged about 200 baht.

Actually, google maps shows it as "sip chet" but has a 16 in the Thai language streetname, so that's a contradiction.

I think it may have been this one, which opened at 10:00 am today.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/V7GoFM327rXkxBer9
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Originally revommended by colmx. With some mention of renumbering the streets.
viewtopic.php?p=85562&hilit=Stitches#p85562

[2lz2p]

I need to get some stitches removed from a post operation wound. Any recomendations for a good place in Pattaya?

If they're "minor" meaning just a few stiches in a non-sensitive area (like your arm or leg) you can go to any clinic (signs with large green cross). There's one on Soi VC across from Wat Chai Market...just ask around.

If you have a lot of stiches to be removed and/or the stiches are in a sensative part of your body...for instance your eye... ...just joking...I would suggest going to the Jomtien Hospital on Sukumvit Rd. (South Pattaya next to Chic Republic) to be safe. Google for directions.

Good luck

I have used Jomtien Hospital several times when I needed treatment for a wound, e.g., cat bite, etc. (for illness and monitoring of several health issues, I go to Bangkok Hospital Pattaya). Jomtien Hospital is closer and, although owned by the same Group as BHP, they are less costly. Visit the emergency room, they should be able to do it without it costing a lot.

[Montree]

Thanks for the information. I eventually went to the nearest hospital to my hotel which is The Memorial Hospital on Second Road.

Unfortunately they weren't happy with the state of the wound and want me to see a specialist next month.

I think I'll wait until I'm back in the UK.

The hospital was very good and they didn't charge.

[Gaybutton]

I think I'll wait until I'm back in the UK.

Why? How soon will that be? If there is a problem, I hope you won't make the mistake of waiting around to get it taken care of - especially if the reason for waiting is to try to save money. I don't think you need me to tell you how waiting to take care of a relatively minor problem can easily turn a minor problem into a major problem.

[Jun]

If there is a problem

That's the critical question. IF there is a problem.

On average, a capitalist healthcare provider, such as private hospital will have at least a slight tendency to overtreatment.
A communist healthcare provider, such as the UK NHS will have a tendency towards undertreatment. Any communist system eventually results in inefficiency and shortages. This is no different.

To be quite honest, I'm impressed that they removed the stitches for free. Even if that might be part of the attempt to upsell to an appointment with a specialist.

Incidentally, my mother had a problem with a wound after an operation. After using google, she figured out it was an infection. So did the doctor, who prescribed antibiotics. Here, you could cut the doctor out of the loop.

[Montree]

I fly home on the 8th January. So not long to wait. I will be seeing my UK specialist for test results from the operation. I think it can wait until then.

I have a history of bad reactions to medications so I don't self-medicate with the antibiotics available here in Pattaya.

[Gaybutton]

If there is a problem

That's the critical question. IF there is a problem.

Of course. I can't speak for others, but as for me, especially at my age, "if" is enough for me to want to make damned sure, so I'll be in the hospital finding out - fast. When my time comes to die, it won't be because I neglected to have a problem checked out or I decided for myself that it wasn't anything serious.

As for that "slight tendency to overtreatment" - I have not had anything like that happen to me at Bangkok-Pattaya Hospital that I am aware of. But if it comes to that, I'll take overtreatment rather than undertreatment any day.

I used to go to Memorial Hospital too, where Montree went, before Bangkok-Pattaya Hospital was built. That is also a good hospital and I don't recall any unnecessary treatment there either.

Some of us may have lived here long enough to remember Dr. Belen. She was always my first stop non-emergency doctor and still would be if she hadn't retired many years ago. She was excellent.

I've seen too many friends and relatives die because they did not check what the problem might be until it was too late. Sadly, far too many of my farang friends and acquaintances have already died when what happened to them might have been preventable. And now too few of us are left.

"What has always worried me about being one of the few is the way we keep on getting ... fewer."
- Richard Burton (Flight Officer David Campbell), 'The Longest Day'

[Jun]

I'll take overtreatment rather than undertreatment any day.

Both are equally bad. When the side effects from the drugs or the risk of death from an operation are worse than leaving a problem alone, that's overtreatment. It's just as bad as undertreatment.

Now, if we take the example of Covid vaccines, the UK is offfering 2 boosters per year to people over 65 years old. The independent experts decided the side effects of repeated boosters outweigh the benefits in younger age groups.
Meanwhile in the US, "CDC recommends everyone ages 6 months and older receive an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine ". I thought the US experts were independent too.....
So a third opinion is needed.
In Germany, health insurance covers boosters for people over the age of 60.

I presume you're taking the vaccine boosters, rather than the undertreatment option?

I've seen too many friends and relatives die because they did not check what the problem might be until it was too late. Sadly, far too many of my farang friends and acquaintances have already died when what happened to them might have been preventable.

That's good advice.

I fly home on the 8th January.

That sounds serious. Make the most of it, before that unpleasant procedure.