Anyone taking Phentermine 37.5?

jovannadahling wrote: »

I really like the phentermine but I need to take it with topamax or I still do the compulsive eating. Does anyone do 11/2 or 2 a day. I only want positive answers here as I have good blood pressure feel great and am not ready to go to the emergency room. And sleep. Thanks

Alright, I throwing my hat in here. This isn't going to be a bashing answer by any stretch of the imagination but a weigh things out carefully. I take 75mgs of Phentermine a day. I take one 37.5 pill when I wake up, and one late in the evening. WHY I take this, is what will blow your mind. I don't take them for weight loss. Never did. I started taking them back in August of this year after my friends kept RAVING about how much energy they had from taking Phentermine! That they were going to the track, gym, lake, and doing this, that and the other, and losing all this weight! Well, I'd already lost over 170lbs on my own, but my energy levels were *kitten*.

I thought, I'll give this a try for maybe a month or so, just to get a little energy boost in with my workouts, because I wasn't having any problems with eating/weight loss.

Yeah, when I first started taking it, I was WIRED. I was at the track burning it up! I had tons of energy to do things with my daughter and felt great! But after a few weeks, I noticed something even more wonderful, that I never in a million years expected from it. When I started to lose my energy, I was disappointed, but what was replaced, was a calm. I was able to go to bed at night, and sleep without my brain constantly racing. I could focus on things without having the constantly troubling thoughts I'd always had. My mind was clear. And, after 23 years, I quit smoking. I was sitting on the porch one night, and halfway through a cigarette, looked at it and said, "this doesn't taste good any more, and I don't want it." I threw it out. I quit smoking that night and haven't looked back. I LOVED cigarettes.

My FNP told me it's because Phentermine works on a part of the brain in people like me, who are struggling with (take your pick of the host of mental illnesses), and instead of hyping us up, it calms us down. Eventually, I'll end up switching to something similar like Adderall.

My blood pressure is perfect, even with taking two pills a day.

I take Topamax as well. I've been on it for five years. I do NOT take this at the same time I take Phentermine. I take it before bed. I'm on 100mgs of Topamax. I was originally diagnosed Topamax for PTSD. At that time, my flashbacks were so strong and intense, that regular anxiety medications weren't cutting it. Even at the highest dosages, they wouldn't stop the flashbacks and panic attacks. Which is, where I'm just giving caution, here. Topamax is an antiseizure medication. So, it works by calming the brain. That's the only thing they could put me on to stop the flashbacks. It was SO strong that I would take it, and sit virtually comatose, yet, fully awake, because my brain was *that* calm.

Eventually, I built up a tolerance to it, but it's a hell of a drug. The reason I've been kept on it to this day, is the noticeable decrease in the frequency of migraines I have. I *still* unfortunately will get a doozie migraine here or there, but they're not nearly as bad as they were before Topamax. I do know this much. with Topamax, do NOT stop taking it cold turkey. This is a drug you HAVE to be weaned off of. Even if you've never had a seizure in your life, stopping this cold turkey can trigger a seizure. I make sure I take mine faithfully, every night.

Now, I will tell you, I can take a Phentermine, and 30 minutes/hour later, go right to bed and take a nap. BUT, I also realize that it may affect my body/brain differently than most/greater majority who take this medication. I take it with Effexor XR.