First time ordering from China — what worked for you?

One thing that is still open after NurseLeah_Nash’s answer:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

zoe_NC 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…

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

Happy to go further on any of that.

zoe_NC 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…

Agreeing with zoe_NC, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.

zoe_NC 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…

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.