Doctor prescribed me duromine.....

[Razzberry]

I could have written your post a fortnight ago! I was telling my doctor that I was finding it incredibly frustrating that I still was not losing the weight after having my son 6 months ago, even though I have been going to the gym for the past 3.5 months at least once a day for 5-6 days a week, seeing a dietician and eating very well. I am 164cm and 70kgs. I would like to get back to 64-65. According to the BMI I am in the overweight range, but not by alot. My doctor said I can give you a script for Duromine that will help you lose the weight. I hadn't heard of it and then googled it and was horrified at what I read. I assumed it helped people with hormonal issues that was making weight harder to lose (which I am getting sorted at the moment, having bloodtests, ultrasounds and seeing a gyno tomorrow). Then when I read the info I saw it is for people who are obese and it is an appetite suppressant (which I don't need). So now I feel like my doctor thinks I need it and therefore must think I look fat and awful. As someone else said, it has brought up alot of issues I thought I had put to bed from my teenage years with self loathing my body (even though back then I was 50kgs and a size 6-8!).

The side effects look really nasty, I don't think it is worth it. For me, I have stepped it up at the gym and also thrown in more walking/running during the week as well as getting my hormonal issues sorted.

[Marley&Me]

Im not sure if this was for me or Ausgirl.....


But I did it for competitive reasons.... I was doing long distance runs and still had what I considered "jigly bits" around my hips and bum. 5kg slows you down enough to count. I could not for the life of me, shift that weight. I had the said "perfect" diet for competition and even with running over 70km a week, that weight was still hanging in there I ended up giving up competition running because I simply couldnt get my body where I needed it. At the time I left competitive running (12 months after trying duromine) I was 56.5 kg and my body was stuggling (periods became very sparse)

I'm happy where I am now. My body has come back to "what it wants to be" which is 67kg, 8kg up from the place where I thought I could lose 5 more kg. I see now what I was doing to myself, but couldnt then, my eyes were on the prize, not looking at what was best for my body. It took alot for me to realise that my body just wasnt, and could not be the build I wanted.

Oh I see, fair enough

Because I have a very fat stomach which is not a good place for women to carry weight and thunder thighs lol!

I am 60kg and 163 cm and I have a jiggly bloated belly too LOL. But I am just trying to watch what I eat to stop bloating, helps a lot.


Wow, I don't have kids yet, but I gotta say I'm a bit scared of the lengths ladies are going to to loose baby weight. While I enjoy going to the gym a few times a week I doubt very much if you would find me there 5-6 days a week let alone 3 months after I gave birth

[Razzberry]

Its not just baby weight. I actually lost all of the weight within a week after giving birth bar 2kgs but then I put it on again. The same happened when I had my daughter. I have crazy hormones and needed assisted conception to fall preggers so I am trying to get my body as healthy as can be again to try and fall pregnant on my own without the need for any intervention!

[blazed]

Hey there

I went on the jap (depo provera) and gained 15kgs from it, when I changed nothing about my lifestyle! My doctor said that weight gain is a side effect of this but I didn't think that it would be so much.
I sm now over weight and cannot shift it and my doctor has not offered duromine for me.
Does anyone know a doctor that will prescribe this?

thanks in advance

[dinky]

Duromine is possibly the worst drug I have ever seen! Seriously its used by a lot of long haul truck drivers to stay awake. My Mum was prescribe Duromine many years ago and her specialists said that this caused some of her heart problems, including heart attacks! Whatever you do, stay away from this drug, its not worth it in the long term. You will lose weight while on the drug but the minute you stop, it all goes back on, so you start a nasty cycle!