Phentermine and Weighloss

You've lost 33 pounds, though. (?) How isn't diet and exercise working?

Threads on this topic get locked for good reason.

Oh I'm not going to get all butthurt about it if people want to get fiesty. I was just curious if anyone had used it under a doctor's guidance and how it worked for them.

that isnt why they shut these down

it is because using speed/drugs for weight loss is unhealhy

you should consider a new doctor unless you want to be a drug addict the rest of your life

I lost my first 25 lbs using Phentermine- I was on it for about 10 weeks at the beginning of this year. During that time i started getting a feeling of my heart fluttering in my chest and it kept getting worse and worse to where I would get dizzy and thought I was going to pass out a few times. It was a pretty stressful time in my life for other reasons and i was not sure if the symptoms were from stress or the Phentermine- I would skip taking a pill for a day just to see if it made things better and never felt any difference. Finally right before we were scheduled to go on a 10 day camping trip in March I had a really bad heart-pounding out of my chest dizzy spell while driving that almost got me in a car wreck and I said enough and made an appointment to go see my doctor. He said it sounded stress related and told me to still go on vacation but see cardiologist when i get back- just to be sure- and even gave me an extra weeks supply of Phentermine since i would be out of town.

I left the doctors office kind of shaking my head and decided to leave the diet pills at home and not worry about my diet during the camping trip- fully expecting to pick up where I left off as soon as I got back. The heart symptoms kept up for the first four days of the trip but I tried to not let it freak me out anymore because I'd already seen a doctor. Then on day 5 of the trip with no Phentermine all the symptoms went away and never came back. Even though I quit taking the pills and never felt that way again I did follow up and spent the next couple months getting some scary and expensive tests done by a cardiologist and he said my heart looked perfect so no permanent damage hopefully. Even though it seems painfully obvious to me now- neither my doctor nor the cardiologist will acknowledge the Phentermine might have been the problem- whatever. I will never touch the stuff again.

Best advice is to be super careful, know the side effects so you can watch for them, and get off of it as soon as possible.

I took it for fatigue a couple of years ago (I have chronic fatigue syndrome). The pharmacist didn't want to give it to me because while I was overweight, my BMI wasn't high enough for him to feel it was safe. I think I did lose weight with it although it wasn't much. Mainly what I remember is how awful I felt the whole time I took it. It's a special kind of hell to have CFS and be absolutely exhausted, yet unable to sit down and be still, but that's what it did to me. I was totally compulsive and could not make myself stop doing things. I had to force myself to eat because food didn't sound or taste good to me. And there was this sensation that I can't describe well where I just didn't want anything to touch me. I felt raw and everything that touched me hurt. Even my clothes felt scratchy. I was generally miserable.

Some of that could have been exacerbated by the fact that I had a chronic illness and that I wasn't obese, but I know of others who have some of the same side effects. If you do find that you have to force yourself to eat, make sure you are getting enough calories so that you don't lose a bunch of muscle-- that'll only make things worse as far as losing weight and keeping it off.

So yeah, be careful. If you have side effects call your doctor asap.

I am 57 and my daughter is 35 we have both been on it before and had zero symptoms. We could take naps on it. We were able to make wise choices and eat portion size because we were not ravenous. Gave us enough energy to work out but not so much that we couldn't sit and read a book. I think it all depends on the person. But what I will agree on is that you must use this time to change your unhealthy habits. Use this drug as a boost to allow you to do those changes so they will be in place once you are off of it. If you don't you will gain all of it back quickly. I am not one who thinks drugs are evil or cheating. I think if it works for you then it is okay, esp since it is wide spread. You will not become a drug addict just because you took a pill that is an amphetimine. If you abuse it and don't take your 30 day break between ea 90 day period then you will have a problem when you get off of them. If you have an addictive personality then be careful. If you find yourself having symptoms or not being able to handle it ask for a lower dose. And actually you should start with the low dose so that if it starts to not be effective you can go to the higher dose. If you start with the higher dose 37.5mg you have no where to go if it starts to not work. Good Luck and don't worry about it.

Turned me into a psycho b****! When I told him, he said "yeah, it does that to a lot of people" then wrote me out another Rx for it. Fire that dr and find a new one.

I was totally compulsive and could not make myself stop doing things. I had to force myself to eat because food didn't sound or taste good to me. And there was this sensation that I can't describe well where I just didn't want anything to touch me. I felt raw and everything that touched me hurt. Even my clothes felt scratchy. I was generally miserable.

Understand that feeling. I knew I was about to rip someone's head off, didn't want to, but had absolutely no control over my rage. Also remember now that you mentioned something similar, I felt like I had bugs crawling on me or that my skin was crawling.