One thing that is still open after Dr.SleepRoch’s answer:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?
raj_cambridge said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Pushing back on raj_cambridge here. 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.
raj_cambridge said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
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Shop Reference Standardsraj_cambridge said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Closing this out. What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and worth saying anyway.