Qsymia

I just started it yesterday.

Hi - I took Qsymia for 3 weeks now, to see what would happen. the first two weeks of the lower dose, i was ok. the 3rd week not so good, it was too strong for me or else a perfect storm of things to tottally eff up my system happened at the same time which totally made me think i needed to go to the emergency room, not sure what it was. I was not drinking enough water and became very constipated so that I am still having tummy pains for 4 days now. I asked the doc to take me off Qsymia completely because to me im not willing to go thru this just to lose weight. coincidentally when the medicine was upped to the stronger dose on thursday last week, i also had mostly fast food since wednesday though within my calories, but, not much veg or salad, some greasy tacos, no fruit, not enough water, and barbecue catered in to work, sandwiches, i fit it in my calories but for some reason not paying attention to eating enough nutrititous foods, and it sort of turned into a cement brick inside me ugh and perhaps the Qsymia may have dehydrated me somewhat, not sure 100%. also i met with my son and we had an emotional talk and what he said - stress all of a sudden hit me like a truck rammed into my chest (stress).

Two funny side effects - soda pop truly did taste weird like they said it would and i really did develop a case of chatty mouth and couldn't stop talking once you got me going. I lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks using Qsymia.

to get my body back to working again, im eating salads, veg, water, and no meat.

Not sure what happened, all was fine till the Qsymia was upped the higher dosage, but who knows if it was slowly developing in that first two weeks or if the perfect storm was happening slowly, or if was that dang bbq or what.. but anyhoo, back to just MFP and being good haha!

oh yeah, and i kept within my calories between this week and last week, and i lost 5 pounds , i am sure part of that was i was sick and coudnt' eat some days.. sheesh, seeing the scale go down 5 pounds scared the bejeezus out of me.. where the heck did that come from? thats not normal ... thats when i knew something was too severe on my body.. so that is when i made the decision im not taking any pills to help me lose weight, i was doing ok before. just thought i would see what it might do. so i found out.

Just Googled it. Side effects sound absolutely fabulous!

I'm still trucking along. I tracked all summer 1600 cal diet worked out, lost 5 pounds all summer long. I was so disappointed and discouraged. i've now been on Q for 14 weeks and lost 25 pounds. I haven't experienced any major side effects. Minor side effects, carbonated beverages taste disgusting, and occasional limb tingling.

My doctor started me qsymia and today was my first pill. I am a type 2 diabetic and needed help in getting this weight off. I took my pill @ 930 am and so far no reaction. I'm eating a 1200 calorie plan. Will weigh in next Sunday.

Day 10, no weight change.

I might have a little paraesthesia in my fingertips. It might be nothing, I'll check back in.

The meds say:

The most common adverse reactions in:

Adults (incidence ≥ 5% and at least 1.5 times placebo) are: paraesthesia, dizziness, dysgeusia, insomnia, constipation, and dry mouth

• paraesthesia (pins and needles, a pricking, burning, tingling or numbing sensation that's usually felt in the arms, legs, hands or feet.)
• dysgeusia (altered tastes: salty, sweet, metalic)

PAV8888 wrote: »

What would be your expected weight change based on logging if you are? What deficit are you targeting, if any specific one?

I'm keeping the CICO/food logging concept separate from this meds effort here.

My medical doctor had me attend a months long set of classes on food, nutrition, health, and wellbeing. The prerequisite to be prescribed this med is to be educated on health and lifestyle change....which they did.

To answer your question, I am going to try and log today. I kind of forget what the MFP setting have for my activity/goals etc. My half marathon training plan has me doing a :50 minute run, that I'll do after work today. The race is in about 60 days, and I should be able to run the whole thing barring injury between now and then. I'm about 100 lbs. over where I imagine I'd be super lean.

Here is where I am @Udare2bu , the first day of week 3. The "recommended" dose.

Starter Dose

• Take 1 Qsymia 3.75 mg/23 mg capsule once each morning for the first 2 weeks.
• You may or may not lose weight during this starter dose period. If not, don’t be discouraged. Move onto the prescribed recommended dose for weight-loss results.

On the first day of week 3, you will start the recommended dose,

• Qsymia 7.5 mg/46 mg capsule

chris_in_cal wrote: »

I took my last dose of Qsymia today.

I asked the doctor what I need to carefully stop and they suggest for a week I switch for every other day for a week. I did that, and today is the last day.

I took the start dose for 14 days.
I took the first full dose for 30 days and then got the second bottle.
The second bottle is where I started to ween off and I only finished for of them.

So about about 50 doses.

I lost about three pounds.

I had many side effects, and I didn't like being on the drug. But the side effect weren't horrible for me.
Between not liking it, and not having strong results, I'm off it.

I does not work for a lot of people, and it does work for some. I'm in the former category. Good luck everyone.

This was like my experience with Contrave. I could not tolerate the side effects. While it works for some people, I was not one of them.