This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
If you are asking about a document, quote the exact wording of the line you are asking about. Paraphrasing a specification is how a discussion ends up about a document nobody has read.
I am reporting what happened, not recommending it.
Noted, and I have changed what I was going to do on the strength of it.
Post #120 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.
"Has anyone had this happen" gets you anecdotes. "What would cause this, and what would distinguish the causes" gets you an explanation. The second question is almost always the one you wanted.
The specific question in the title is more useful than you might think. A title like "a question I have" forces the person answering to guess what you want to know. A title with the actual question gets you an answer in two hours instead of two days.
The arithmetic in post #124 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Timeline questions need the timeline. Dates, in order, with what happened on each. "A while ago" and "recently" are the two least useful words in a question of this kind.
I would want the raw data before agreeing with my own summary of it.
Answering the question post #123 raises rather than the one it answers.
Units. Everything needs units. This is why we ask every single time. I have seen the same arithmetic done three different ways depending on whether the person was thinking mg/mL or mg/dose or something else entirely. Stating the units makes that impossible.
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