Bought some Meridia

[Sassy69]

Suffice it to say topiramate is also known as the California drug....it makes you thin and dumb. However precomp dietingmakes me dumb anyway,

Very true dat. Very true.

 

[gypsy]

Well - if you can't take birth control pills with it, then 90% of us can't take it. That sucks. A friend of mine starting taking Topamax a year ago for migraines, and lost a ton of weight on it. I got kind of annoyed by it, everyone was asking her how she was losing so much weight and she would just say "I exercise a lot". Yeah right beotch, it's the drugs, not your exercise. Damn, I was gung ho to try to get some of this stuff until that last paragraph - but being thin does me no good if I end up pregnant!

Well, as for the Meridia..... what a bunch of crap. I had just as much will power to eat or not eat when I wasn't on this stuff. I am so highly ticked off about it.... everytime I get my hopes up that I'm going to get a little boost out of something, it doesn't work out. I'm really relating to Sassy's story right now - boredom is my number one enemy at this point. The past two weekends it's rained, I've had no plans, and no money to do anything. So I'm sitting on the couch ready to climb the freakin' walls, AND I'm hungry, trying not to eat. What a miserable time! So I screw up, I'm starting to get really pissed at myself. Unfortunately, I live in crap hole Delaware where nothing is ever going on, and there's nothing to do.... Man, I'm miserable today. Isn't Meridia supposed to be an antidepressant also? It's not doing it's job on that front either.

 

[Sassy69]

gypsy - I really understand your situation. Lately I've been noticing this cycle that is very specifically related to my menstrual cycle. For most of the month I would be very happy if I didn't have to eat at all. I get hungry at the correct times, I eat, but I just wish I didn't have to. Its like the exact opposite of having cravings. The about 2 weeks before Aunt Flo comes, for some reason I seem to get specifically bored and I decided that I want some junk food because I'm bored. Its been particularly bad the last few months because I've been hanging in limbo waiting for the outcome of a couple different job opportunities I'd been pursuing. When I don't have a particular "regular schedule" or specific things to focus on, I get really antsy & very easily bored. So I've found that I REALLY ENJOY those damn Poppables or whatever they are called that are little KitKat's. So here I am pounding the junk food. Then I get stomach aches because I have limited tolerance for junk carbs. A couple days later the sugar & crap fat starts showing itself in bloating. Then between the shit I just ate & the ol' estrogen kicking in, I start breaking out. Then after that passes (this is about a 4 day time period) I again lose my appetite & just wish I didn't have to eat again. Then I feel great when Aunt Flo finally gets here, except for the occassional cramp, etc.

What an evil cycle.

 

[brunette]

gypsy, if meridia is not rocking you boat, have you any thoughts about using phentermine, it has a great review?

 

[gypsy]

I'll have to look into it a little more, I'm not opposed to anything specifically, I was just trying to avoid any type of stimulant. I don't enjoy ECA stacks very much, I seem to get quite stupid on them in that I can't concentrate well. I get irritable too, I guess from the caffeine. Then I can't sleep, and I have to take Ambien. I don't like taking one drug to counteract another drug. I will look into it more though. The Meridia was easy to get, I ordered it from an online pharmacy in India. Seems like getting that type of thing from an online pharmacy in the US is a pain in the @ss - they want your doctor's name, they want to call you.... I just want them to send my my stuff, then leave me alone The pharmacy in India doesn't have phentermine unfortunately. If anyone knows of an online pharmacy that isn't a pain in the @ss, let me know the url.

 

[Sassy69]

Phentermine is basically just prescription speed, n'est-ce pas? Its an evil stimulant. It still comes back to the fact that there are no magic pills to 'lose weight'. You are definitely better off spending your time focusing on your goal, making sure that your training & diet fit into your lifestyle and relaxing, with a view to the long term goal instead of hunting around for a magic pill for a quick fix. You will always end up paying in some way from any sort of quick fix - either with a rebound, a bad result from a fake or a hit to the pocketbook with no results / another fake.

 

[MS]

Sassy is a wise woman. Another option (which I have used with good results on Wellbutrin) is to take Wellbutrin (or topiramate) 2 weeks on and two weeks off. If you synchronize this with the second half of your cycle it can really help with cravings, plus I find it takes 2-3 weeks for the drugs to start fogging up my brain. Cycling them prevents the brain fog!

 

[Sassy69]

<sassy steps down from the ol' soapbox and bows to the further experience of MS spiced with amazing amounts of intelligence & common sense!>