Following on from julia.endo — and this may be the naive question:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

LabKate said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Carry on.

LabKate said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Taking it to my next appointment.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.