anna.melb_AU said:

Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.

anna.melb_AU said:

Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.

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.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.

Following on from anna.melb_AU — and this may be the naive question:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

tammy_FL said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.