Dr.PulmRoch said:

My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from an Australian compounder.

That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.

Dr.ReproEndo said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

I read this differently from Dr.ReproEndo, on substance rather than tone. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.

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.

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