lisa_labSD said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.
One thing that is still open after lisa_labSD’s answer:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?
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Shop Reference StandardsPharmacoVig_BOS said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
PharmacoVig_BOS said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
PharmacoVig_BOS has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.