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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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 Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject: the mystery shot in the ass |
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Something that's been troubling me for some time is that mystery shot in the ass that seems to be compulsory anytime you go to a doctor in korea.
What's in it?
Why do you have to get it whether you have an ingrown toe nail, asthma attack, acne, pink eye etc. there's always a jab in the ass?
Someone somewhere must know the answers. The people have a right to know. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Anti-biotics.
I went to get s cortisone shot or whatever the local equivalent is for my bunged up shoulder. They tried to give me a bunch of anti-biotics as well...
on a side note... hee hee... My sister told me a good story about a coworker who went to a Korean Doctor some where over on the East coast for an infected cut. The doc told her she had an STD.  Then proceeded to inject her with oddles of anti-biotics for the said STD, and gave her a bunch of pills to take for like a two or so weeks. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| the shot in the ass changes for different problems. The reason korean doctors like it so much is that it is very fast acting so patients feel better right away. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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I've developed quite the habit of saying "no needles please".
In fact, it's the only time I use the crossed arms gesture so common among Koreans.
My facial expression is a weak smile and a strong stern look of: OMDB.
It just ain't gonna happen.
(Another weak smile)
My anti-biotics will be taken orally, thank you very much. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Dan The Chainsawman wrote: |
Anti-biotics.
I went to get s cortisone shot or whatever the local equivalent is for my bunged up shoulder. They tried to give me a bunch of anti-biotics as well...
on a side note... hee hee... My sister told me a good story about a coworker who went to a Korean Doctor some where over on the East coast for an infected cut. The doc told her she had an STD. Then proceeded to inject her with oddles of anti-biotics for the said STD, and gave her a bunch of pills to take for like a two or so weeks. |
OMG. You know how powerful antibiotics are for STDs? Those drugs are not meant to be just taken for a infected cut. These things will kill every bug in your body including the ones you need for digestion in your large intestine. Not only is this the stupidest thing I have ever heard but its also extremly dangerous. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
I've developed quite the habit of saying "no needles please".
In fact, it's the only time I use the crossed arms gesture so common among Koreans.
My facial expression is a weak smile and a strong stern look of: OMDB.
It just ain't gonna happen.
(Another weak smile)
My anti-biotics will be taken orally, thank you very much. |
I'm exactly the same. For me it's a lifelong fear/loathing of being stuck with needles (one guarantee against my ever becoming a junkie), an irrational conviction that my body can and will heal better in 95% of such cases without an injection, and a less-irrational distrust of Korean doctors borne of some first- and plenty of second-hand experience.
When I first read the thread title, I thought some "mystery" (noun) in CGL's life (or perhaps in the latest Potter book) had been "shot in the ass" (revealed, debunked, etc.). |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| I'm exactly the same. For me it's a lifelong fear/loathing of being stuck with needles (one guarantee against my ever becoming a junkie), an irrational conviction that my body can and will heal better in 95% of such cases without an injection, and a less-irrational distrust of Korean doctors borne of some first- and plenty of second-hand experience. |
For me, it's because I have several allergies, some severe, and I fear the consequences of such a heavy direct dose of something my body may not like.
When I needed emergency surgery due to gall bladder blockage several years ago, I developed huge rashes to the pain killers in the I.V. Turns out I'm allergic to morphine and demerol. They had to break up some Tylenol 3 codeine tablets and inject a solution of it.
I also have had a golf ball sized reaction to a bee sting as a teenager.
And, to confirm my concerns, when I developed a bronchial infection late in the first winter of my teaching in Korea, I turned down the needle, and subsequently had an allergic reaction to the orally-ingested pills I was given! The second kind that ended up being prescribed worked well.
So,... would you let a who-knows-what-kind-of-drug needle near you with such a history?
Better safe than sorry. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| It's a placebo. They can charge the insurance company top dollar for the salt and water they use. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, indeed. I don't know about anyone else, but my donkey is getting pretty bloody sick of it. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| Wrench wrote: |
| Dan The Chainsawman wrote: |
Anti-biotics.
I went to get s cortisone shot or whatever the local equivalent is for my bunged up shoulder. They tried to give me a bunch of anti-biotics as well...
on a side note... hee hee... My sister told me a good story about a coworker who went to a Korean Doctor some where over on the East coast for an infected cut. The doc told her she had an STD. Then proceeded to inject her with oddles of anti-biotics for the said STD, and gave her a bunch of pills to take for like a two or so weeks. |
OMG. You know how powerful antibiotics are for STDs? Those drugs are not meant to be just taken for a infected cut. These things will kill every bug in your body including the ones you need for digestion in your large intestine. Not only is this the stupidest thing I have ever heard but its also extremly dangerous. |
Eat yogurt to get a lot of these positive "bugs" (bacteria, actually) back in your intestines.
The antibiotics you take for STDs are the same as what you'd take for a bad nasal infection. Doxycyclene, or the new drug of choice -- four pills of Zythromax taken all at once. Doctors here like the Zythromax because it's just four pills and you don't have to worry about missing doses. But yes, they are darned powerful. 1000mg all at once. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Hee hee hee glad this did not happen to me. By all accounts it cleared up the infection on the persons leg. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: Re: the mystery shot in the ass |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| Why do you have to get it whether you have an ingrown toe nail, asthma attack, acne, pink eye etc. there's always a jab in the ass? |
Because clinics/hospitals in Korea seem to be run with the same efficiency (and I am being generous here), and follow the same ethical philosophies, as most hagwons? |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| I went to a pretty sketchy clinic once, and I asked if the needles were clean (they weren't capped, and it seemed odd- something just seemed off about place, cuz I normally don't question the sanitation, you know?). The nurse was indignant, but next time, I'm out of there if I encounter that situation again. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| I went to a pretty sketchy clinic once, and I asked if the needles were clean (they weren't capped, and it seemed odd- something just seemed off about place, cuz I normally don't question the sanitation, you know?). The nurse was indignant, but next time, I'm out of there if I encounter that situation again. |
I went to an optometrist years ago. Old grandpappy on the third floor of one of the oldest buildings on Yoido. He had me do the eye-chart test, where you're supposed to cover one eye, read the letters, then the other eye. (This was before every place had the machine where you rest your chin on the pad and look with one eye at a time.)
He didn't have anything around for me to cover one eye with, so I said I'll just close it (duh!). But no, that's not good enough. So he looks around and grabs the soup spoon from his lunch tray (he had a bowl of yukgae-jang delivered to his office), wiped it off on his smock, and told me to cover my other eye with it. I did. And I could smell the yukgae-jang. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I am so glad I haven't had breakfast yet, that story is revolting. |
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