Dr.RheumBOS said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.
Happy to go further on any of that.
One thing that is still open after Dr.RheumBOS’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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Shop Reference Standardsbri_stats said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
bri_stats said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.