Dr.DermMIA said:

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction.

Mine went the same way, slower.

Dr.DermMIA said:

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. 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.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

One concrete data point for the thread. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

lisa_labSD said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

Pushing back on lisa_labSD here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.