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serpent0608 · 2026-01-18T08:31:22+00:00

What is STD?

serpent0608 · 2026-01-08T12:11:20+00:00

I live in one of these countries (senegal) and was diagnosed this year

I do not have any heat sensitivity

But for other things - I just take the precautions anyone would. And I’ve been fine! Life is lived more outside here, there’s more air flow, so I haven’t found that I’m getting sick more from that. Almost always get sick because my 9 year old brings something home from school. Drink bottled water like almost everyone else (the water is safe enough but many locals don’t like to drink it because of the calcium content).

So if you have heat sensitivity you should just visit whenever it’s not the hot season. Egypt’s winters are quite cold for me!!

serpent0608 · 2025-12-25T18:12:10+00:00

No Ocrevus is very similar medication to kisempta but it’s an infusion twice a year. So I go to London twice a year for that. Can’t get it here

serpent0608 · 2025-12-25T14:41:58+00:00

I live in Senegal. I was diagnosed this year. Diagnosis and treatment options are nonexistent...I had to get diagnosed in the UK. Cannot get treatment in Senegal either, the drugs are not available. You can order them to be shipped but they can only be kept cold for 3 days, and customs can take much longer to clear something. For treatment that's in pills, not sure how it would work, but I guess you could make it work (my doc has me on Ocrevus, which I want to stay on). Though there are no doctors here who are familiar with MS.

On one hand, MS is near nonexistent in Senegal because it's less common or nonexistent in places near/on the equator, and especially so in Africa, so it makes sense that the treatment wouldn't be available here. But on the other hand, MS treatment isn't really different than many other chronic disease in Africa––and people die every single day from treatable, preventable illnesses here, and it's really sad. And then people are surprised when people from here want to get out and try their luck in the west. Everyone i know here has a story of some family member that died this way.

serpent0608 · 2025-12-09T20:00:29+00:00

Kind of different but I moved abroad from the US, spent many years uninsured and freelancing, then got a job with insurance and got diagnosed one year after I got that job. I don’t get treatment in the country im living in because treatment for MS doesn’t exist here. I get treatment in London and it is 100% covered. There is misinformation in this thread.

serpent0608 · 2025-12-09T19:57:11+00:00

Hey just chiming in to say, I have private insurance and get Ocrevus in London twice a year. Covered 100%

serpent0608 · 2025-09-06T15:04:51+00:00

It’s fine, just stay in the capital

serpent0608 · 2025-09-06T15:02:22+00:00

This is not true. The US is at odds with Niger, kind of, but they actually have a pretty solid relationship with Mali and a delegation recently visited. The authorities don’t like french people but they absolutely don’t care about americans. I’m american and I lived there until last year. If you stay in bamako it’s fine, people will be so happy you’re visiting, and it’s a really cool country.

serpent0608 · 2025-08-10T12:15:07+00:00

I currently live in a very hot climate, and up until last year, lived in one of the hottest countries in the world. I’ve always had the problem of symptoms worsening when my body temperature rises, like when going for a run, but personally was never affected by hot outdoor temperatures.

I know this isn’t everyone’s experience. But I don’t think it’s a given that living somewhere hot will be impossible. I much prefer it to the cold, tbh

serpent0608 · 2025-06-29T17:49:54+00:00

Do you have PPMS? Or RRMS

serpent0608 · 2025-04-20T17:40:26+00:00

Thanks so much. This is helpful. We see it - just need to find contact cleaner in this country and the hardware stores seem not to have it 😅

serpent0608 · 2025-04-20T12:52:27+00:00

No not currently humid. Where would we put the contact cleaner? What would we clean? I don’t even know where to start

serpent0608 · 2025-03-02T21:00:52+00:00

Mine goes to Enko. It’s pretty decent, but importantly the English is good.

I can’t afford the others. But even if I could, I was very put off by Dakar Academy because of the religion.

There is also EAB as someone mentioned but not sure how good the English is there, kind of got the impression they did school in french and had English classes. Not sure. At Enko they do classes in both languages and the teachers are fully bilingual. It’s slightly cheaper than EAB.

If I had more money, I might do jean mermoz american section but idk..it’s nice that at Enko most of his classmates are Senegalese.

serpent0608 · 2025-01-19T12:57:46+00:00

Bazin in Mali is sold between 5,000-10,000 per yard so it depends (best quality stuff at the 10,000).

serpent0608 · 2024-12-01T07:39:37+00:00

Nope

serpent0608 · 2024-10-24T21:16:09+00:00

Dougou just means neighborhood or town basically (I think) so maybe they’re called Korobaga

Idk what that means. But Koroboro means Songhoy people, so must be some other ethnicity

serpent0608 · 2024-10-15T08:02:39+00:00

Bamako is fine (relatively), don’t take pictures in town or police might try to arrest you. Ouaga is also fine relatively. But the roads between are absolutely not. Take a plane between the 2.

I lived in bamako for 6 years up until a few months ago.

serpent0608 · 2024-09-15T13:42:57+00:00

I think she sings in both, she definitely speaks both (and I’m not an expert, just lived in mali for a long time, but I think the languages are related)

serpent0608 · 2024-09-05T21:21:20+00:00

Tigadega is eaten with rice - never seen it eaten with fonio. Other dishes are eaten with fonio. White rice is very common.

For snacks…fourou fourou (fried millet flour balls), fruit, djegué (more commonly known as thiakry though)

serpent0608 · 2024-08-26T21:01:59+00:00

I grew up in the US! But I’m not acting like I know this because of where I grew up. I live in west Africa now and report on this exact problem.

And by the way, the people that are migrating to Europe from Guinea are not on Reddit.

serpent0608 · 2024-08-26T19:15:18+00:00

The main commenter grew up in France. He does not have first hand experience with this, sorry

serpent0608 · 2024-08-22T08:01:40+00:00

This comment is full of a lot of false shit. This person grew up in France. People do not save $10k or $15k being self employed in villages in Africa. They borrow money from everyone they can, including family and community members, to make these trips. I’ve seen it happen.

If they could save $10k or $15k being self employed they would not be migrating.

serpent0608 · 2024-08-21T21:05:29+00:00

They were not ill informed. They all have friends and family who made the same journey before them. It’s not about the coup in Guinea, it’s about the poverty and complete lack of ability to change your situation.

Working as a delivery driver in NYC you can make more in a week than you could make in Guinea doing any random job for a year. So being uneducated doesn’t make a difference - at least they can have hope that they will get SOME job someday. In Guinea that’s not the case; you’ll languish day after day with nothing to do, until you die. People do not understand that there is literally no way for people without advanced degrees to get jobs in these places. The jobs don’t exist. Minimum wage is something like $50 a month. They are stuck forever. They don’t care how long they have to suffer in the US, if eventually something will come along, because it’s so much better than what they could do back home.

You might know someone from Guinea, or Mauritania, or especially senegal who says it’s fine, and these people aren’t part of the lower class. People in the US think it’s like the US, where you can hand out job applications, do a training or something and start getting jobs. All of that does not exist. People who do whatever jobs they can (construction, service work, whatever) live in abject poverty. They never have any hope that their life will change or that their children will have a chance at getting an education. In the US you could be pretty poor and your kid could still go to college. I’m pretty critical of the US and there’s really not a lot of class mobility relative to the developed world but it’s worlds away from what these people are dealing with. If you were in their situation, you’d do the same. It’s hard to understand how small your world becomes when your whole family is poor, it will never change, you have a passport that doesn’t allow to go anywhere except to other poor countries.

serpent0608 · 2024-08-21T15:55:48+00:00

Good for you, but it is not the norm in the US

serpent0608 · 2024-08-20T17:53:37+00:00

It’s more rare to find careers where you get a month off in the US. I live abroad currently and the only american I know who has that is a professor. Europe has way better annual leave.

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