Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.

Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

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