BethLabQueen said:

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

I read this differently from BethLabQueen, on substance rather than tone. 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.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.

MikeFit_NJ said:

Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

Coming at MikeFit_NJ’s question from a different direction. 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.

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

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

Reporting back.

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction. Correcting it here rather than editing it away.