Dr.BariatricHTX said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
Following on from Dr.BariatricHTX — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
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Shop Reference StandardsDoseLogDan said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
I read this differently from DoseLogDan, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
DoseLogDan said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
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.