my eGFR moved and I cannot work out whether below spec is why
my eGFR moved and I cannot work out whether below spec is why. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
Escalating faster than the schedule allows is the most frequently described regret on the site, and the mechanism is straightforward: tolerance is the limiting factor and it does not care about impatience.
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
Is this the first time, or a pattern you can see now?
money lost to a shop with nothing on file is the recurring story
Nothing here is medical advice, and the honest version of most of these posts is that they describe consequences rather than causes.
stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure
the regret is usually about pace, not about the decision
This. Correcting a wrong accusation in public is the hardest and most valuable post anybody makes here.