james_edin said:Denials are usually procedural rather than clinical, and the order that works reflects that.
All true, with one condition: that curve is for people who reached the dose on schedule. Anyone who slowed the ladder for tolerability is on a different, flatter curve, and comparing yourself with the published mean will make you feel like a non-responder when you are not.
BariatricNurseD said:Steady state is the thing most people miss.
That reframing is the part I needed. Taking it to my next appointment.
james_edin said:Denials are usually procedural rather than clinical, and the order that works reflects that.
I read this differently from james_edin, on substance rather than tone. The trial means are being read too generously in this thread. STEP populations were selected, supported, and titrated by protocol, and the real-world curves are consistently a few points worse. That difference is not noise, it is what happens when you remove the study infrastructure.
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View ResultsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.