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focusedmom07 wrote: »

anyone taken this before? my doctor put me on this today. he told me to only take half the pill. He also put me on a 1000 calorie diet. i started out weighing 297 and now down to 224. I am not sure why he gave it to me. I work out 5x a week an hour a day. I have heard ppl take it and do great but i read the reviews on this meds. and it scared me. i am also 5'4" and i am 27.

It sounds like you're doing pretty great without it. 70+ lbs is awesome! I'm not a medical expert, but your doctor sounds a little sketchy. Of course, I don't know the full context of your relationship with him/her, either.

I'm in a situation where I need to switch doctors. I walked in to my current one, he looked at my chart and told me my weight was a little too high, I should be concerned, I need to focus on getting healthy, and that I should follow his dietary advice.

Well, he totally ignored the part where I told him I'd already lost 75 (at the time) and am working on the last bit using a sustainable calorie deficit. Seriously - in one ear and out the other. He didn't care that I had lost - all he cared about was that I still need to lose more. I'm sure if I went in after losing the 10 I have since my last appointment, he'd probably credit his own advice for the loss.

My point being - sometimes it's worth getting a second opinion.

sofaking6 wrote: »

focusedmom07 wrote: »

i thought i was making good progress....but guess not...idk

Remember that half of all doctors graduated in the bottom 50% of their class - you don't have automatically take the conclusions or advice of one doctor to heart. Did you ask him why he prescribed the pills? Does he know about your loss to date?

Ha... I see what you did there.

Yeah hopefully you find a good doc. I had a "doctor" at so called "medical weight loss" who had me on like 800 calories at 6 feet tall. I was always sick working out. Sure i lost weight, but those calories were not enough to survive on

christinev297 wrote: »

I was at my doctor complaining that i had 20 odd pounds to lose? And bam! He wrote out a script for phentermine. I foolishly took it too, and I lasted around month before I couldn't handle the side effects any more..

What kind of side effects did you have? Also did you stop cold turkey? I am currently on it and it's not really helping me lose weight and it's making my thinking different....

christinev297 wrote: »

I was at my doctor complaining that i had 20 odd pounds to lose? And bam! He wrote out a script for phentermine. I foolishly took it too, and I lasted around month before I couldn't handle the side effects any more..

It is truly scary the amount of times this med. is prescribed.....even for those who are doing well losing weight on their own or for those with only small amounts to lose.

I'm in Aust. just like you Christine and accompanied my husband who is in the process of re-losing weight the 1st thing the Doc. offered was phentermine..... FWIW.....he needs to lose about 40 lbs. I'm glad I spend so much time reading on these forums because the information here has made me very aware of the potential for outright harm from phentermine and probable yo-yoing once you come off the med.

We said about our involvement with a calorie counting site and that hubby planned to increase his exercise etc etc but the Doc followed up with ....

"But this drug is perfectly fine, recommended by Pharmacists, had trials done on it's effectiveness." Basically talked about how good it was and when we declined he then offered him the one that stops fat being absorbed, its name eludes me at the moment, but the one that can have embarrassing pants type consequences if you eat too much fat.....the whole appt. was an eye-opener and in all honesty in every other way he is an excellent Doc and very knowledgeable but on this matter he was going with some drug rep. hocus-pocus.

To the OP.....please take care. Read other threads about this drug and the effects it can have. Be very careful if you do take it. For my 2 cents you are doing very very well on your own and have your head screwed on in a much better way than your Doc. particularly seeing that 1000 calorie idea is foolish. Also just keep reading and learning from MFP....it is a terrific resource and you will find many very successful people here who are more than willing to share their ideas and help you should you need guidance.

All the best.