josh_phd_bmore said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
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.
josh_phd_bmore said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
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.
josh_phd_bmore said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
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Shop Reference StandardsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.
jim_asheville said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. Nothing to add that would improve it.