Testimonials & Stories

Real Journeys, Real Transformations

"Behind every treatment is a story of courage, healing, and discovery. At ThaiCureo, we are proud to be part of these journeys — helping patients regain health while experiencing the beauty of Thailand."

June 2026

Thomas DeAngelis' Endoscopic Spine Surgery Journey in Thailand

Thomas DeAngelis, uh, from Florida, USA. Had a very serious, acute onset 14 years ago, uh, was completely debilitated and immobile totally for about a month. Us tall guys usually have back problems, and—but, uh, you know, back when you're young, you think that the harder you push it, the better you build your body. And then, and you know, in those days, I was totally, uh, ignorant on the—the physiology, if you will, of what a disc is. And it's basically like a tyre. Once you wear out your disc, it's like a tyre that you just simply have to replace it.

[00:54] Thank goodness for the internet. When—when I found out that Bumrungrad had the reputation and the skill set, the—the actual, uh, pioneering....read more

January 2026

Piero's Arthroscopic Hip Surgery Success Story

My name is Piero Papa, I'm 63, from Canada. Before, I was in the most pain I've ever experienced in my life. I'm very active, and to manage that pain, I needed to take a lot of painkillers, a lot of anti-inflammatories, and I did that for approximately 6 months to discover that I needed microscopic surgery. At that point, I needed to do something. I could not wait in my country for a 3-hour procedure.

I was admitted in the morning. I was given a full scan, stuff we don't do back home. The MRI was three times longer than back home. The care, the attention... the word I use, if it's perfect, is called impeccable, absolutely. I was prepped, I was instructed what was going to happen, the amount of time, and I was.....read more

January 2026

William's Journey Through Advanced Geriatric Care in Thailand

Hello, my name is William. I've been sick—so many, so many problems. I have a list of about 12 different... that I have osteoporosis and I can't even [remember] some of them, but it's just one thing after the other.

I was about to come in for a regular outpatient appointment, but I started having really bad pains in my side, and I had those for 4 or 5 days. And I kept trying to think, you know, it's going to be better tomorrow, you know? But finally, I just told my wife—I told her that I really need to go back to the hospital. It hurt so bad. I'm a monthly patient, I come in to have fluid [drained]......read more

April 2024

Mr. Bobby Keith Cliffton's Recovery Journey in Thailand

Hey, my name is Bob Clifton. I'm from the United States, but we also have a home here in Surin. I worked in the construction industry basically my whole life. I was in the Army and learned to become an engineer for 25 years. Then from there, I went to work for the Army Corps of Engineers, where I retired.

I had had a near paralysis. My spinal cord, the... pinched really bad in the C2, C3, were pinching the spinal cord 50%. So my wife and sister-in-law insisted that I come to the hospital and get checked out and see what they could do, because I—I just thought it was just natural pain,.....read more

August 2024

How Advanced Cancer Care in Thailand Helped Peter Face Stage III Cancer

My name is Peter Gysegem. I come from the United States of America, and I've been living here for seven or eight years now. On my first visit to Thailand in 2002, I got a little bit of food poisoning and I got the best care, even though the hospital wasn't as big at the time. Also, because others of my acquaintance have rated this the best hospital in Thailand, and my experience is, yeah, I agree with that.

Doctor who I believe is overall managing my case is Dr. Thospol. He is a gastroenterologist here, highly rated internationally. My oncologist is Dr. Bun. I could not ask for better medical....read more

May 2023

The Rezūm Procedure Helped Change Clay's Life

Hi, my name is Clay Miller. I'm an American, and I live here in Thailand. I've actually lived here for over 20 years, and I'm 60 years old.

So when I turned 55, I started struggling with different symptoms like slow urination, having to urinate many times during the night, as well as urinary tract infections or UTIs. So it was the UTI specifically that kept recurring over and over. I would say over a six or eight-month period, they recurred four or five times, and I was on antibiotics. I was on different prostate medications to try to help reduce the size of the prostate or improve my symptoms. And then at the end of last year, in 2022, the symptoms just got notably ....read more

May 2023

How Clear Communication Led to an Accurate Diagnosis and the Life-Saving of Brian

My name is Brian Taylor. I am an expat living in Thailand for more than 20 years now. I work at a school called Bangkok Patana School. So, I was working at the school in a—in a meeting, and I had a severe chest pain underneath my rib cage, and I could not breathe. And so, then went straight to the local hospital as an emergency, and my wife came along. She said we—we should go to Bumrungrad, yeah.

So, the first doctor that I went to see was Dr. Suthichai, and he was super efficient, but he also listened and allowed me to explain in detail the pain map that I was having at that particular time. And having somebody that....read more

January 2020

Ms. Maike Stahmer’s Spine Surgery Journey in Thailand

I suffered for a long, long time from spinal stenosis with severe pain travelling down into my leg, and I could not achieve any medical treatment—satisfactory medical treatment—in Canada at all.

But the first direction I should consider is look at what other international hospitals are offering. So, because my background is German, I chose to look at some German clinics. And next to the German clinics, Bumrungrad came up all the time, and I looked at it, and it showed Thailand. And I thought, "Thailand sounds very good, never mind the surgery, but the climate and the people."....read more

Mayy 2020

Arrhythmia Can Be Treated

About 10 weeks ago, I walked up a flight of stairs, and I noticed when I got to the top of the stairs that I was a little bit out of breath. And then for 3 weeks after that, the breathing—the breathing got steadily worse to the point where I couldn't sleep.

I tried every position in bed you can think of to try and sleep, but I couldn't, because every time I shut my eyes, I became out of breath. So I—in—because I hadn't slept for so long, this was really scaring me now. So I decided, "I need to see a doctor."

It's been excellent, excellent. I couldn't—I couldn't ask for more. They—they—they've all been great,....read more

February 2019

How Advanced Brain Injury Treatment Helped an Icelandic

It started with my son being on—on vacation with his girlfriend in Hua Hin where they had um a traffic incident, traffic accident. So um in short, he was in a bad state. His brain was severely uh injured, swollen. His left side was very, very badly injured. His right arm was broken, his uh left leg was broken in two places, his nose, chin bone, shoulder, chin, everything was broken.

The surgery process was uh of course, the uh in the beginning it was his brain was—he was so severely swollen. Then when—after the brain was uh beginning to be a better uh they had to uh they had to focus on his uh his other ligament, that's to say his arm which was uh broken, and his should.....read more

May 2011

Rachel’s Breast Augmentation Journey in Thailand

Hi, my name is Rachel from Australia. I came to Bangkok Hospital in Thailand. I came to have breast augmentation.

I'd been considering breast augmentation for some time. After having three kids, I just wanted a bit more fullness. So, I didn't want to go overboard or anything; I just wanted a little bit more fullness in there.

When I arrived at the hospital, I was taken to the plastic surgery centre on level three, where I was greeted by a nurse, and she took some details, took me down to see the doctor. It was really very fast. The facility is beautiful, and she took me in to see the doctor....read more