Emergency passport should last 6 months, no reason that you have to leave because of that. I was in the same situation and continued my holiday on the emergency passport.

A good chiro can work wonders I have chronic L4/L5 pain and used to go to chiro once a month as a maintenance measure. These days however I find the best thing is - drink lots of water (so simple that people don't bother to do it... hydrates the disks preventing pain), lots of walking, lots of swimming and yoga stretching. The more pain I have the more I force myself to walk it off until it loosens up. Use a walking stick of you have to. The worst thing to do in this case is to sit on the couch. If the pain od unbearable try a balm or topical pain killer applied to the skin. All the best.

How are you supposed to survive if you don't even have that? You are basically asking how to get around thai law which is a very silly idea.

I have seen some facilities set up for foreigners. Looks like you would receive a much higher standard of care due to low staff costs. Of course the downside is you may be far from family and friends unless they are in Thailand already.

You don't need to support your family because they are well off. Most thais do have to support their extended family. Your experience is not typical of most thai people.

@Patrick *********

good luck.... every westerner seems to want to open a bar here and very very few of them ever succeed.

My wife is Chinese Thai also from the south. No dowry she is university educated. One does not buy a wife in western culture but looks after her well. I am Buddhist as well as my wife but I do not automatically let thai culture always dominate over my own.

The average thai has 9 years of schooling. Very few go to university. This is a window into elite privileged thai lifestyles.

@Jeff ******

oh yes this is very clear. Happens all the time though and always ends in the tea her being thrown under the bus and wearing the consequences financially and otherwise. Seen it so many times. I was scammed by an international school.

@Scott ********

it comes from hard earned experience and hardship, maybe it will help.someone stay out of trouble. Most will never have such issues and may scoff at what they do not know about.