Quote from: Dani Davis on July 26, 2014, 12:40:15 PM
10 years ago I weighed 175 at 5 foot, 11 inches. I won't say how heavy I got, but in an act of desperation, I went to my doc and said I needed help, do something. After two months of required preliminaries he prescribed what I can only call the wonder drug - Phentermine. In 2 months I have lost almost 50 pounds, feel GREAT and have more energy than I have had in years!
If you look it up online, you will see testimony after testimony from people whose lives have been changed by it. Some folks lose 50 pounds or more in a single month. Like all things pharma, it must be monitored by your doc. I have to keep a log book of daily BP readings and my diet. I take it to him once a month so he can take a look at it, check me over and then I get a refill.
I've been on Phentermine (prescribed) for the last couple of months or so, and it is pretty amazing. I think its also somewhat dangerous and you want to be very careful how you use it.
I want to lose weight quickly, taking advantage of a level of motivation I've not felt in years (the wonders of estrogen and hope).
It massively reduces my hunger so that its quite easy to go on a very strict diet. Normally I find that very very difficult; I like food a lot. If I increase the dosage I find it hard to eat anything at all - one mouthful and I really don't want to take a second. Food becomes a duty rather than a pleasure. At the same time it gives me a lot of energy and ability to focus on work. I find I get dizzy sometimes though lack of food, and I'm afraid to drive like this. Once I upped the dose and felt a bit like I was floating, and that wasn't lack of food. That's not safe, but luckily its not a problem for my current lifestyle. I've had several other side effects, but they are unpleasant rather than dangerous.
I started of with a very low dose and even at that point the side effects can be noticeable. If I took a normal dosage I'd be afraid of what would happen (I'm sure I'd be completely dysfunctional, if not quite ill). At the same time I find I'm slowly building a tolerance and I need to very slowly increase the dosage back to normal. I can see that at some point its going to stop working, and doctors are not supposed to prescribe it long term. I intend to get the full benefit of using it before that happens.
I'm tracking my weight daily, and I can easily see the effect of what I eat the day before. It helps with motivation, and also experimenting with diet. I feel the time pressure of when I have to stop, so I want to get the most out of it as fast as possible.
There are a lot of testimonials online by people who have great success with phentermine, but there's also a great many by people who wish they'd never heard of it. Personally I think you need to go it into with very clear expectations and a definite plan, otherwise its not going to work out very well. There's a reason I was overweight in the first place, and without fixing that I'd put everything back on as soon as I stopped taking phentermine.
