Has anyone tried the RapidTrim pill? Not an ad.

Amie_Girl
Amie_Girl Posts: 80 Member
edited January 23 in Health and Weight Loss
Before I came on here I was taking RapidTrim (max dose) for about 2 months. I lost 15 pounds just taking the pills. I didn't exercise and I ate whatever I wanted (and lots of it). I was really loving it until one day I my bones started to hurt. Everytime I moved it was like *snap crackle pop*. I couldn't even make a fist. I stopped the pills and it went away. The bottle doesn't say what's in the pills of course (propriatary formula).

Any idea what this could have been?

I liked the pills because I saw a great loss and it really got me enthused about weight loss. I still have a bottle and a half and I would like to use them (if not just to say I didn't waste 25 bucks). I also felt great on them. They gave me a lot of energy and took away the hunger.

Do you think that along with my multivitam (which I just started two weeks ago ish) that I would be okay? What the heck in the pills could have caused that?
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  • Amie_Girl
    Amie_Girl Posts: 80 Member
    PS: I know diet pills are taboo/bad. You don't have to tell me that. I just want a head start, you know?
  • Josalinn
    Josalinn Posts: 1,066 Member
    honestly? sounds like an allergic reaction. Did you talk to your doctor? Don't think of it as a head start, just jump into your dieting and exercise. Yes it is exciting to loose weight but that isn't real weight loss because you aren't changing your relationship with food or moving your body. Weight loss will come. In fact ditch the scale! take measurements of all your various circumfrances every 2 weeks after you start working out. I bet you'll see and feel the difference!
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
    Do you think that along with my multivitam (which I just started two weeks ago ish) that I would be okay? What the heck in the pills could have caused that?

    Unless they changed the formula those pills are still being made with the D3RPx2 chemical. I've heard lots of bad things about that stuff. Read the label and see if it's mentioned. Sometimes they slip it in under different names or just leave it out altogether. YOu need to google this product more to be sure.

    A multivitamin would be good no matter what I guess. Wouldn't hurt.
  • naturesgate
    naturesgate Posts: 45 Member
    I have no idea sorry. But those things usually come with a host of side effects down the line. Perhaps you should try some Apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, or green coffee bean extract. Its a lot safer and probably equally as effective as those pills you're taking.
  • Amie_Girl
    Amie_Girl Posts: 80 Member
    I don't think it's allergies. I was on it happily for two months.
  • paygep
    paygep Posts: 401 Member
    Well, sounds like getting 'keyed up' after taking the brown acid, or in other words, toxic buildup. It really doesn't list ingredients? NOT GOOD
  • Amie_Girl
    Amie_Girl Posts: 80 Member
    Diet pills often don't (I've never seen one that did) because thier specific formula is unique to them. They don't want other companies copying them.
  • TJMiddaugh
    TJMiddaugh Posts: 67 Member
    sounds like an adverse effect that happens when manipulating the body and its functions with crazy diet pills long term. is losing weight in that manner really worth all the other unhealthy side effects that could happen? i would rather just be overweight than overweight and jacked up from pills. playing with fire then surprised you get burned? bound to happen. you thought you were on it HAPPILY for 2 months, then your body said otherwise
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    waste of money there s no magic diet pill
    diet and exerciz e is the only way
  • Mischievous_Rascal
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    Here's the ingredients from their website: Glucomannan, chromium and green tea extract.

    Glucomannan is a soluble fiber. Eat Oatmeal and apples and...and...and... LOTS of natural foods instead.

    Green Tea: Have a cup.

    Chromium: This is from Wikipedia - " Trivalent chromium (Cr(III) or Cr3+) occurs in trace amounts in foods and waters, and appears to be benign. Although no biological role for chromium has ever been demonstrated, dietary supplements for chromium include chromium(III) picolinate, chromium(III) polynicotinate, and related materials. The benefit of those supplements is questioned by some studies. The use of chromium-containing dietary supplements is controversial, owing to the absence of any verified biological role, the expense of these supplements, and the complex effects of their use. The popular dietary supplement chromium picolinate complex generates chromosome damage in hamster cells (due to the picolinate ligand). In the United States the dietary guidelines for daily chromium uptake were lowered in 2001 from 50–200 µg for an adult to 35 µg (adult male) and to 25 µg (adult female)." You get whatever you need from the trace amounts in your food and water.

    If you lost weight on it, it's most likely water weight and maybe a bit of fat from upping your fiber and green tea is just a good idea. So, why waste your money, let alone have to deal with worrying that it's possibly hurting you?

    Best of luck!
  • Amie_Girl
    Amie_Girl Posts: 80 Member
    Here's the ingredients from their website: Glucomannan, chromium and green tea extract.

    Glucomannan is a soluble fiber. Eat Oatmeal and apples and...and...and... LOTS of natural foods instead.

    Green Tea: Have a cup.

    Chromium: This is from Wikipedia - " Trivalent chromium (Cr(III) or Cr3+) occurs in trace amounts in foods and waters, and appears to be benign. Although no biological role for chromium has ever been demonstrated, dietary supplements for chromium include chromium(III) picolinate, chromium(III) polynicotinate, and related materials. The benefit of those supplements is questioned by some studies. The use of chromium-containing dietary supplements is controversial, owing to the absence of any verified biological role, the expense of these supplements, and the complex effects of their use. The popular dietary supplement chromium picolinate complex generates chromosome damage in hamster cells (due to the picolinate ligand). In the United States the dietary guidelines for daily chromium uptake were lowered in 2001 from 50–200 µg for an adult to 35 µg (adult male) and to 25 µg (adult female)." You get whatever you need from the trace amounts in your food and water.

    If you lost weight on it, it's most likely water weight and maybe a bit of fat from upping your fiber and green tea is just a good idea. So, why waste your money, let alone have to deal with worrying that it's possibly hurting you?

    Best of luck!

    Those are just the three igredients they list. That takes up about a 10th of the pill. the other 750mg is a propritary formula.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member

    Those are just the three igredients they list. That takes up about a 10th of the pill. the other 750mg is a propritary formula.

    614
  • Amie_Girl
    Amie_Girl Posts: 80 Member

    Those are just the three igredients they list. That takes up about a 10th of the pill. the other 750mg is a propritary formula.

    614

    Oh you're so clever. We all want to be just like you.
  • RobynMWilson
    RobynMWilson Posts: 1,540 Member
    If you have to question them, should you be ingesting them?
  • sc10985
    sc10985 Posts: 347 Member
    That doesn't sound right at all. But no one on this forum can tell you it will be "okay" to take anything. And highly doubt anyone on here would anyway. You can do it without the pills!
  • scookiemonster
    scookiemonster Posts: 175 Member
    If you have to question them, should you be ingesting them?

    Indeed.

    The idea that you experienced something like that while taking these pills and are actually considering putting your health in jeopardy again just sounds insane to me. If something like that is happening, it sounds pretty obvious that the pills are causing some kind of damage to your body. Is $25 worth of pills really a higher value than your health? Sure, you might be fine... but you also might not. It's not like it was just that one last pill that caused the problem; it's far more likely that it's just a reaction that was building in your body for a long time and took a while to be severe enough for you to really register what was happening.

    I get it. You took a pill and you lost weight without having to put in any effort. You could eat whatever you wanted, never work out, and still lose weight. That's the dream, isn't it? Problem is that most dreams are not a reality. You lost weight, but at the price of putting your health at risk. Additionally, you're learning nothing about how to actually manage weight in a healthy or sustainable manner, and I'm willing to bet that you're likely gain all of that weight back, and then some. After all, that's what generally happens to people who pursue quick fix methods. Ultimately, you're hurting yourself more than you're helping yourself.

    You say you want a "head start," but there are no real head starts in this process. Do it slow and steady the right way, or you're likely to end up right back at where you started, and in my experience, it gets a little bit harder to lose each time you succumb to the cycle.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member

    Those are just the three igredients they list. That takes up about a 10th of the pill. the other 750mg is a propritary formula.

    614

    Oh you're so clever. We all want to be just like you.
    It's cool. I only used to work at Pharmaceutical company as a chemist... I obviously have no idea how to read a label.
  • ohmscheeks
    ohmscheeks Posts: 840 Member
    Correlation does not imply causation. I would have seen a doctor about the bone episode.
  • SteelySunshine
    SteelySunshine Posts: 1,092 Member
    Before I came on here I was taking RapidTrim (max dose) for about 2 months. I lost 15 pounds just taking the pills. I didn't exercise and I ate whatever I wanted (and lots of it). I was really loving it until one day I my bones started to hurt. Everytime I moved it was like *snap crackle pop*. I couldn't even make a fist. I stopped the pills and it went away....
    Any idea what this could have been?

    I liked the pills because I saw a great loss and it really got me enthused about weight loss. I still have a bottle and a half and I would like to use them (if not just to say I didn't waste 25 bucks). I also felt great on them. They gave me a lot of energy and took away the hunger.

    Are you serious? You felt great other than the aching, snap, crackling, popping bones right?
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    "Proprietary formula" is marketing speak for placebo. Any real, effective product would be protected by a patent, so the company would have no qualms about listing the formula on the label.
  • logicman69
    logicman69 Posts: 1,034 Member
    I would be very weary of anything that doesn't list the ingredients on it like that. You have to know what you are putting in your body in case of an alergic reaction. In your case, it sill might have been an alergic reaction, but a mild one at first that got worse over time as the harmful chemicals built up (think something like athleats foot, but streched out over a period of time). I would avoid them if I had any type of reaction like that.

    I know the alure of diet pills. I took several different types durring my weight loss jorney. Hydroxycut, Ripped Fuel, and Xynadrine (the old formula) were the most popular ones. I thought they helped too, except I noticed when I was off them, the weight would come back on. It took a while to wheen myself off them, but I did and I am much happier (and had better results) now that I am off. That is just my experiance, take it as you will.
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    PS: I know diet pills are taboo/bad. You don't have to tell me that. I just want a head start, you know?

    NO.
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    PS: I know diet pills are taboo/bad. You don't have to tell me that. I just want a head start, you know?

    Good luck with getting the results you want with the work you didn't do :flowerforyou:
  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    Look, it doesn't really matter what we say, does it?

    You sound like you are already convinced that magic diet pills are the way to go, despite a truly concerning and alarming skeletal side effect you've been experiencing. If you want someone to hold your hand and tell you it's ok, please continue taking them, you've come to the wrong place. This is a site for losing weight healthily, not to promote and swap suggestions for dangerous FDA unapproved drugs that you have no idea what is in the ingredients.

    Stop taking the pills, eat at a moderate deficit, exercise a little more, and you will the same results, for less cost and with no frightening side effects.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    Posting about this pill is inappropriate. Too many people want a quick fix and now you've possibly introduced some impressionable people to a potentially dangerous pill. I've never typed this before (and I've read some doozies) but I really hope this thread gets deleted.
  • bunnymum150
    bunnymum150 Posts: 311
    Do you think that along with my multivitam (which I just started two weeks ago ish) that I would be okay? What the heck in the pills could have caused that?

    Unless they changed the formula those pills are still being made with the D3RPx2 chemical. I've heard lots of bad things about that stuff. Read the label and see if it's mentioned. Sometimes they slip it in under different names or just leave it out altogether. YOu need to google this product more to be sure.

    A multivitamin would be good no matter what I guess. Wouldn't hurt.

    About a month or 2 ago there was a piece on one of the evening news programs re a military young man whom was using what sounds similar to what you are describing, could be something else. anyways - I believe this item is banned by the FDA however as the quote states somehow they are still getting this into products and putting individuals at extreme risk. Very frightening.

    wouldn't we all just love a jump start/quick fix?

    Sadly many of us have been there, done that, and I am hoping that you too will eventually come to the realization that we (I) strive for optimal health via activity and nutrition and along the way we shall lose some weight on that life journey.

    Please be careful:heart:
  • bunnymum150
    bunnymum150 Posts: 311
    oops - I forgot to mention that the young man in the military whom was taking this supplement died and i believe there was another individual with some health issues as well.
  • ami5000psu
    ami5000psu Posts: 391 Member
    So let me get this straight. You were taking a diet pill for two months. In that time period you experienced skeletal pain that stopped once you stopped taking the pills. And you still want to take them again. Did I get that right? Good luck with your diet and exercise goals.
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    PS: I know diet pills are taboo/bad. You don't have to tell me that. I just want a head start, you know?

    Eat at a caloric deficit and work out regularly. You will lose weight, get healthy... and your bones will not sound like a box of Rice Krispies (which, by the way, is made with a proprietary formula - or so I heard from an elf).
  • marygee1951
    marygee1951 Posts: 148 Member
    You've already made up your mind to take the rest of the pills. Can't waste $25.

    The majority of members here are putting in hard work to lose weight by making life-style changes - not looking for a jump start or a magic pill with awful side effects.

    What happens when you finish the bottle? :ohwell:
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