sarah_TO said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.

traveltech_sara said:

Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.

sarah_TO said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

One concrete data point for the thread. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. No action needed from anybody.