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SELECT: what a 20 per cent relative reduction means in absolute terms

Started 20 February 2026 · 9 replies · 70 hearts · read 912 times

NissaHaifa, IL · 20 February 2026
5 months ago

A question rather than an update: SELECT: what a 20 per cent relative reduction means in absolute terms

I have read the paper and I am not sure I have understood it.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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OskarWarsaw, PL
#1

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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BlueStroud, UK
#2

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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NilsUppsala, SE
#3

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK
#4

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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AmmiKarachi, PK
#5

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#6

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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JuniperMachynlleth, UK
#7

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK
#8

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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TarqWindsor, UK
#9

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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