One thing that is still open after SarahChen_PharmD’s answer:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?
jim_asheville said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
jim_asheville said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
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.
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Shop Reference Standardsjim_asheville said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Taking it to my next appointment.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.