VanRx_Mike said:

PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Posting only so the count is not one.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

julia.endo said:

The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

julia.endo said:

The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.