Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Whether the fasting requirement is as strict in practice as the label implies, and what people actually see when they get it wrong?
LabKate said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. 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 measure again under the same conditions.
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View ResultsOP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
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.Martinez 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…
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. The absorption variability is real, but it partly averages out over weeks — the steady-state trough is less erratic than any single day would suggest. Where it bites is in the first fortnight, when people conclude the tablet does nothing.