Dr.PeteFamMed said:Back pain as a lean mass side effect: not from the medication itself, but from rapid body composition changes.
That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
MASHdoc_SA said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
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View ResultsMASHdoc_SA said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Coming at MASHdoc_SA’s question from a different direction. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Late follow-up. I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.