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hi everyone

i feel like every post i've made to this site so far have been about how crap i've felt on phentermine. i've been reading through the archives for the last couple of hours trying to find out if others have felt like i have and for suggestions on what to do. i'm in my second month of phen and am getting totally frustrated and am about to give up. so with no real answers in the archives i'm turning to all of you.

i'm taking duromine 40mg and wanted to know if anyone else has taken that brand and dosage and had no luck. instead of being energized i feel tired (and i do eat enough, i make sure of it. and drinks lots of water) and have pretty much from the beginning, and i've only lost 2kg (about 4.4 pounds) in the month+ of taking phen.

i moved to australia about 9 months ago and triggered old emotional eating habits that i thought i had long kicked and managed to gain 10kgs (22 pounds) in about 6 months. i struggled to get it off again, and then turned to phen when a friend had great success with it (she lost more than 5kg in the first month! she was lighter than me to begin with, but somehow i thought being heavier would make the weight come off quicker...it is an anti-obesity drug afterall...). but instead of success i'm frustrated.

i decided i'd try to take a bit more and see if that helped, so i took an additional 1/2 of a 40mg capsule this morning. it didn't change things except perhaps make me more tired.

ok i've babbled on for long enough, sorry this is so long. anyone out there able to help or tell me about their own experiences?

thanks

cheers,
natalie

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[Gerald Bostock]

Hi, Natalie,

Feeling sleepy or tired isn't a common side effect of taking phen, but it does happen - you're not alone.

Many people here take their phen with a healthy dose of caffeine. You might try a couple of cups of coffee or tea to see if that helps. Others swear that taking it with orange juice increases the energetic effect for them.

You didn't say if you're exercising. If you aren't, you might try adding a brisk walk or other beginning cardio to your day. It will not only jump-start your metabolism, but it will add to your energy level, as well.

Others here may have more advice.

Good luck!

[teppar]

gerald thanks for your insights. i've decided not to take the phen for a couple days and see how i go. if i'm fine off it then perhaps this is not the medication for me. afterall i'm not really losing much with it anyway. i am excercising....not as much as i should at the moment i know, but more than i was previously and still nothing....

we'll see what happens after a weekend off. hopefully i won't turn into a roaring moody monster without phen

cheers,
natalie

[LauraCA]

Natalie:

Is that just a "brand" of Phen? If you are taking 40 mg. and sometimes 60 mg. (when you cut one in half and take it too) then it makes sense that you feel yucky. Sometimes people get tired when they take amphetamine-like drugs. Be careful, that seems like a lot of phen and it's really a pretty strong med.

I got super frustrated at first. I started at 167 and the weight didn't really seem to be coming off. But in time it did. I think it was TooHolly who told me that the phen is just a "tool" to use with eating healthy and exercising, blah blah blah. Well no matter what weight at which you start, it's frustrating to not see weight come off as fast as when we were 18 years old and decided to go on a crash diet.

I have lost 23 pounds in about 4 months. If I did my math right, that is about 1.074 lbs. per week. That's not that much, but once I started seeing results it became easier.

Hang in there mate (that's my trying to be an Aussie!).

[teppar]

hi laura

sorry i'm a bit behind catching up on posts. duromine is a brand of phen. it's what they sell in australia, and i don't think any other brand is sold here. it's by 3M.

i'm beginning to wonder if you're right in what you said about the amphetamine being too much for my system. i started with the 40mg right off the bat and it's pretty much made me tired from othe beginning. i only tried the 60mg on one day to see if that would make them any better for me, but it seemed to make me sleepier. i've decided to stop taking for a few days, and then look into splitting the capsules and trying only 20mg a day for awhile and see how that does. maybe the 40 is just too much for my system and it's shutting down.

i know i have to be patient, and it's only a tool, but i was only looking to the phen to "kick start" me and give me a big initial loss to help remotivate me to continue losing. i'm not a very patient person and if i don't see immediate results i tend to get discouraged. i guess i'm going to have to change that attitude though, because phen isn't giving me that "kick" i was looking for. i'm going to to have to kick myself