BariatricNurseD said:

Sex hormone labs after weight loss on the hormone panel — for the men in this thread: Testosterone: 296 → 536 ng/dL (dramatic improvement!) Free T:…

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.

julia.endo said:

Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this…

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

One thing that is still open after kim_atl_prep’s answer:

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

Reporting back.

Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.