has anyone tried phentermine for weight loss?

I used it last year. I didn't stay on it long enough to see any significant weight loss. I hardly slept for 2 weeks straight, I was moody, I cried all the time for silly reasons and it constipated me badly. Never ever again!

I was on it. Be careful after taking it daily for just a few weeks I could not wake up without it and felt horrible coming off it. I also gained back everything I lost on it and wish I never took it. If I were you I'd really do some research on it and decide if you really want to take the risk. Its basically a legal amphetamine. Some people can take it OK well others it effects them negatively.

Diet pills and diets like HCG don't teach you portion control or moderation. And as you realized, they are not sustainable. Just eat at a caloric deficit and you'll lose weight.

I was on this for awhile two different times. When I came off it I had alot of emotional problems. I was moody, I felt vulnerable and the worst part is, the weight all came back within a few weeks after I stopped taking the pills. The second time I took it I did a diet and exercise regimen and stuck to it for a ew weeks. I lost nearly 30lbs. After stopping again, I gained back 45 lbs. I dont think its worth taking. To many side effects and then the weight gain.

Yes. I lost 80 lbs. I also never slept, or ate, and got dizzy doing the simplest things. Also, coming off it was the worst experience of my life. And I gained all my weight back, and then some.

kaylaheiser16 wrote: »

I was recently on the hcg diet and I lost 90 pounds on it I still need to lose 40 more pounds! my doctor told me to stop the hcg diet because I almost passed out on it and now my doctor put me on phentermine I just started taking it today I would like to lose 40 pounds on it with diet and exercise has anyone tried this pill and lost weight? If so how long did it take you and how much did you excerisice? and what did you eat?

Honestly? I would find a new doctor. You are basically swapping one dangerous method to another. With only 40 lbs to lose left I am shocked your doctor prescribed you a weightloss medication. It does not sound like your doctor has your best interests in mind.

I have to tell you that I was THIS CLOSE to asking my doctor for that Belviq or whatever it's called.

(Is that the one? You know - the commercial where the guy's plate is sagging under 900 lbs. of food at the barbecue and he's going "Do I have enough food?")

Anyway...the conclusion I came to is this:

If my problem now is my appetite, my problem later will be my appetite, too. I might lose WHILE on the drug (or I might not...well, for the sake of argument, let's leave that at "I might"). Then when I go off...?

I can tell myself, "Oh, it's just to jump-start my weight loss. After I lose a good amount, I'll be motivated to continue losing."

But if the problem is appetite, then being motivated won't figure in later either, whether I'm at the weight I am now, or 20 lbs. lighter, or 40 lbs. lighter. I'll go off that drug, and BAM. Here it will be again. I'm motivated NOW to lose weight. Yet I'm fat. Lack of motivation has never been the problem and never will be the problem. Learning to be satisfied with a normal, healthy amount of food has always been and will always be the problem.

And let's not even discuss how fast all that "motivating" weight loss can poof. Because I think we all know. Or most of us do. So many of us have been there. How many of us have sat there sobbing and shoveling in the food while popping out of those "skinny jeans" we were finally able to get "back" into? Watching it all go away? It is not motivation that is the problem and a loss is not, in itself, necessarily motivating enough to address very real appetite and habit issues.

So anyway...thinking about all this, I decided against the "Am I REALLY full? Have I had enough?" drug. Because whether I address it now, or address it 30 pounds from now when I've been on the drug, have to go off and bam, back comes the appetite AND the pounds, I do have to address it.

I have the whole rest of my life to deal with this. I can't just put off addressing it for a couple of months and figure that will be it, it will all be solved. Or that my motivation will be better. Motivation does not trump appetite. The appetite will be there - I need to deal with THAT.

May as well be now.

p.s. Obviously I don't speak for the whole world. This is just my experience, these are my thoughts, and my conclusions.

This sounds awful, I don't think it is legally available in the UK.

blueboxgeek wrote: »

This sounds awful, I don't think it is legally available in the UK.

Well, basically they're bennies. Amphetamines. Or, technically, a drug with a pharmacology similar to an amphetamine. I'm sure you must have amphetamines via prescription in the UK? (Though I wouldn't know whether you have them legal for prescription with an aim toward weight loss specifically.)

BrendaLee615 wrote: »

I was on this for awhile two different times. When I came off it I had alot of emotional problems. I was moody, I felt vulnerable and the worst part is, the weight all came back within a few weeks after I stopped taking the pills. The second time I took it I did a diet and exercise regimen and stuck to it for a ew weeks. I lost nearly 30lbs. After stopping again, I gained back 45 lbs. I dont think its worth taking. To many side effects and then the weight gain.

Not to sound so after-school-special-y, but this is what happened to the person I knew.

This is exactly how she became a drug addict. When she went to go off it, she started gaining weight so she continued to take it.

That was 24 years ago and you can just imagine what happens to a person who does a drug like that for that long. She is now a crack addict with liver cancer but I'm pretty sure she STILL uses phentermine, too. She lost her husband, kids, job, everything.

And this all could have been avoided if she just ate healthy and exercised. It's just crazy to me that anyone even prescribes these drugs.

I just stopped last week after a 3 month run. That is the longest you should ever be taking it. I lost 23 pounds over the 3 months (started at 163) and really the biggest issue I had was the insomnia. I also started to have same anxiety towards the end which is normal. I was expecting to have some serious withdrawal but so far absolutely nothing other than I find myself a little hungry late evenings. No weight gain back, actually have lost 2 more on my own. It's good for a kick start but my experience is different from a lot of people I know.
Note: This was originally designed for morbidly obese patients from my research, not for people with a moderate amount to lose. I won't take it again knowing this but happy I took it.

I took it several years ago, lost some weight but gained it all back plus some. It also lost its effectiveness after a while.

The few posters that are satisfied with it report that they lost weight with and without it. Which leads to the question: why do you think the pill had anything to do with your weight loss?