Has anyone dealt with my pharmacist tried to explain the mechanism and my eyes glazed over?

Dr.PeteFamMed said:

Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…

Second this. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

Dr.PulmRoch said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

Dr.PulmRoch said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.

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