andrew_nyc said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Mine went the same way, slower. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

PeptideChemSF said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

One thing that is still open after PeptideChemSF’s answer:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

Moderator note: reminder that nothing in this thread is medical advice, and that clinical claims need a source. Carry on.