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Now I feel I know so much more about porridge and oats. Thank you everyone ! :-)

Oatmeal is a type of cereal and porridge could be made of another type of cereal and still be called oatmeal, whereas we would call it something else. That’s what I understood. Also you’re right, porridge is always hot.

You had me curious so I looked it up. It’s complicated for my hurting ME brain tonight, but it seems oatmeal is a type of porridge. Porridge can be made of a variety of grains. https://www.foodsforbetterhealth.com/porridge-vs-oatmeal-33248

Thank you, I will !

Is porridge also called oatmeal, like Quaker Oats ? If so I really do like it and eat it often, even for dinner. I put a little brown sugar in it and just a spoon of chocolate milk...

Great tip for vegetables ! I do buy prepared fresh salads but they get boring. I also buy all prepared meals, like shepard’s pie. I can’t really cut vegetables, so I sometimes buy them cut as well, but never really thought about cooking them in the oven. Ma daughter makes those for me...

Wow, now I’m happy my bad cholesterol isn’t so low anymore...

I have low blood pressure, although it went up a bit, and my triglycerides are good. I don’t think anyone is going to prescribe medicine for me now, but what worries me is that only 4 years ago, I was at the very low end of all levels, and now all my levels have gone up a lot, some even off the...

I think it makes sense ! Also, I know I don’t eat as well as before. I eat commercial foods, more refined sugars, and sometimes binge on not so good foods. And I don’t cook much, no energy. I’ve gained at least 20 pounds of fat and lost maybe 10 in muscle. Also, as you said, not...

i just noticed this week some of my cholesterol levels were high on some testing results from 3 months ago. I went back and looked at my results from 4-5 years ago, when I was still in great physical shape, and the difference is striking. My levels used to be the best possible, all of them...

No, scrolling doesn’t work, but it must be because I’m on a tablet. I now see ypur picture. Your dots are very different than mine. It looks like petachiae, but spread out. Are you going to have someone look at it ?

Only one picture, of your arm and the petachiae.

@Marky the first picture doesn’t show up.

Yours are different than mine. A lot bigger, and they look like they stick out of the skin a little bit ? I agree in my case also it could be tiny speckles of blood. The last photos look disgusting, lol !

I think yours is a different type if « dots » but it’s interesting !

Interesting hypothesis, thank you ! I will try and remember next what I did before new ones appear. It could indeed be from cutting vegetables or other, although I really don’t do it often, because it hurts.

I won’t know until I go back to my therapist and she evaluates me. I seem to have less back pain though. She told me she had a patient who did and when she saw him after a couple of months, she could really tell he had been doing it. There was a significant difference in the curve of his spine.

I asked my physical therapist about something similar a few weeks ago and she said it’s useless because it’s only holding you through tension and as soon as you take it off, everything will go back the way it was. She gave me an exercise to do, which is really hard but would help if done...

In the first year I was ill, I monitored HRV everyday and really worked hard to find patterns. Unfortunately there was no correlation between my HRV and symptoms. I stopped using it.

@Binkie4 I hope you can sort this out and find a way to make it work. I am kind of stuck at 3.5 mg, taken in the morning. I tried 4.0 mg but it made me sleep too much during the day, so I took it at night. And then I lay awake and got very little sleep, so I went back down to 3.5 in the...