Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
TrialTracker_MD said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.
TrialTracker_MD said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
Coming at TrialTracker_MD’s question from a different direction. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
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Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
Following on from TrialTracker_MD — and this may be the naive question:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?