My insurance FINALLY approved it - here is exactly what I did

Dr.ObesityMed 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. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

One concrete data point for the thread. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

Following on from Dr.ObesityMed — and this may be the naive question:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

Dr.NateNeph said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

Happy to go further on any of that.

Dr.NateNeph said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.