Quit drinking AND started sema - liver is thanking me — looking for input

Dr.LipidDallas said:

The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.

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.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

Dr.LipidDallas said:

The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.

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.

Dr.LipidDallas said:

The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

Dr.RheumBOS said:

The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.