Bloodwork question about bromocriptine. Baseline, four months in, and the numbers moved in a direction I did not expect.
The effect size I actually noticed is roughly a third of what the write-ups imply, and it took four months to be sure.
Sample size, blinding, and who paid for it. Those three questions kill most of the confidence in most of these threads.
How do you separate the compound effect from the routine around it?
Same here.
Side effects was my main issue with bromocriptine too.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison. Currently on bromocriptine myself.
Narrow conclusion.
Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions. Not on bromocriptine but the pattern is familiar.
My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.
Reconstitution arithmetic is only half the problem. The other half is what was in the vial.
Loose evidence is not nothing, but a washout either side is the only reason to trust your own take.
Narrow conclusion.