How do I even get reta right now? Is it available anywhere? — need advice

LipidDoc_ATL said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

Coming at LipidDoc_ATL’s question from a different direction. 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.

One concrete data point for the thread. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

Following on from LipidDoc_ATL — and this may be the naive question:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

wendy_avl said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

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

wendy_avl said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.