Following on from Dr.PathRoch — and this may be the naive question:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

DanielChem_CHI said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

DanielChem_CHI said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.

Happy to go further on any of that.

Old thread, but it comes up first when you search for this, so it is worth updating. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.