Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
Following on from zoe_NC — and this may be the naive question:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
Dr.DermMIA said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.DermMIA said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.