About Diet Pills

I have had success with Phentermine. I take it morning and afternoon and do not have any side effects except dry mouth. I do drink a lot of water now and even that symptom seems to be going away. I committed to myself to take Phentermine for three months and then stop. Hopefully that is enough time for me to adjust to a healthier lifestyle and to get in shape so that I will enjoy physical activities more. I do not have cravings any more and my appetite is suppressed.

I began the process of altering my diet prior to going on Phen though. For example, I quit eating fast food about four months before starting my new eating plan. Then each month after that, I gave up another problem food. First cookies and cake, then chips and dip, then high fat cheeses. These are the foods that I struggle with, so I gave them up one at a time while still eating whatever else I wanted. Then when I was ready to start the diet, I began eating 1200 - 1400 calories a day and exercising about three times a week. I also tried to be more physically active in smaller ways, for example, taking the stairs and parking at the top of the lot
rather than at the door. I hope to work up to exercising more frequently but take satisfaction in the small progress that I am making. There are still areas where I struggle, like weighing myself two or three times a day (I know I should throw out the scale, but I can’t yet), but I am not having trouble with cravings/binges. I am going to take this one day at a time, and if I don’t lose any more, I am going to be grateful for what I have lost, and not gain it back.

I could never have done this without the help of phentermine.

I am up there in age, but after all the years I’ve spent using diet medication, I am still unable to succeed in losing weight unless I take meds. The main *properties* in this pill do not suppress the appetite…as much as they give you an incredible sense of well being which in turn gives you the ability to resist screwing up your diet! (If this makes any sense). Prozac, for example is being used for bulemia, and OCD, because the energy one gets from the drug, starts the domino effect…You feel good…you don’t eat as much, because you’re not so depressed…you feel optimistic….plus, when you see the weight drop off, you buy something towear….yada….yada…

I have my own theories about overweight conditions, depression, and chemical imbalances. But most people prefer to lable diet pill users as weak, depending on a crutch, etc. THAT’S O.K.!!…..I suffered so much in my life, as a result of being fat, because I was depressed…..OR depressed, because I was fat!…..It doesn’t matter anymore to me….What ever works, I use. I endorse diet meds, and make it my business to keep supplied. …I love the feeling of being totally awake, and productive…I feel my creativity is in full swing….Didrex is still being written, because it hasn’t gone over to the schedule II.

It’s a few molecules off from dexedrine or benzedrine, but who cares? So many other diet drugs are really unsafe. An honest doctor will tell you the same. When I don’t take these pills, I am cranky, tired and feel like there’s a cotton filter in my head. Nothing is crystal clear. I have had no side-effects in 20 years, \thus, the continued use.

Didrex worked great for me… but I have suffered on and off from malaise type depression for years. Luckily I am “in touch” enough to notice when I started to get irritable. Lack of sleep can produce psychosis in anybody. The key is, “Don’t be a Moron. Listen to your body”.

The key is still exersize, with or without the drugs. Drugs made it much easier for me to get to the gym at the beginning. I was also inclined to work just a little harder and longer than I would’ve. I have a very hearty muscley frame however, and hate that feeling of “wuss-ness” or weakness, and always looked forward to gaining strength and endurance.

My mother suffered chronic fatigue from very low blood pressure and depended on low doses of Didrex to more or less keep her going. The outcome was a disaster: she became obsessively paranoid and needed to be treated for psychosis. She loved the high and ignored the personality changes until they were almost irreversible.

I am now on Didrex. Love it. Works like phentermine did when I first started taking it. Lots of energy, not hungry, motivated to exercise etc. I’ve lost 2 lbs. the first week.

My plan is to stay on it, until I reach my goal weight then drop back to phentermine to maintain.

Since it’s not prescribed much, I did have trouble finding a pharmacy that had it. Walgreeens had to special order it for me (It only took an extra day, so no big deal). Price was $31.00 for 30 day supply. My doctor was willing to prescribe it since I have not had much luck with other meds - Phentermine (worked for a long time, but then I hit a plateau), Tenuate (didn’t loose any), Tenuate + Phentermine (didn’t loose), and most recently Meridia (2 lbs per month).

My understanding is that it has a bad rap because it supposedly has a high abuse potential. But they said that about phentermine, and Doctors say that they see very few cases of abuse. My theory is that people who are overweight have lower levels of dopamine than thin people, and that these dopamine releasing stimulants bring us up to the level of a “naturally thin” person. They modify our behavior so that we think and act more like a “thin person”.