The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.
Following on from Dr.EndoEP — and this may be the naive question:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?
LabKate said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on LabKate 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.
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Browse GL BiochemLabKate said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
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.
Reporting back.
Closing this out: the trough rather than the peak explains the pattern I was seeing on day six, which I had been blaming on the vial.