Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
One thing that is still open after jim_asheville’s answer:
Whether the fasting requirement is as strict in practice as the label implies, and what people actually see when they get it wrong?
hank_denver said:For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.
Coming at hank_denver’s question from a different direction. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.
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View ResultsClosing the loop on my own question.
Update — I went back to the injectable. Not because the tablet did not work, but because the fasting window and my mornings were never going to agree.
Dr.ReproEndo said:Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Worth adding that the tablet is taken daily, so a missed dose costs far less than a missed weekly injection. That is a genuine advantage nobody lists.