Has anyone dealt with how to properly track progress?

KevinCompounds said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Coming at KevinCompounds’s question from a different direction. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

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.

One thing that is still open after KevinCompounds’s answer:

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

Dr.RaviCardio said:

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

I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.

Dr.RaviCardio said:

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

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.