One thing that is still open after Dr.KarenChen’s answer:

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

JessicaM_2024 said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Pushing back on JessicaM_2024 here. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

JessicaM_2024 said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.