traveltech_sara said:

Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.

Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.

AmyNC_wife said:

Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.

That reframing is the part I needed. Taking it to my next appointment.

traveltech_sara said:

Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.

Pushing back on traveltech_sara 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.

One concrete data point for the thread. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

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

Moderator note: a couple of off-topic posts removed.