Have you ever taken diet pills?

Thermodrene, Metabolife, and Metabolift... all of them worked reasonably well for the appetite suppressant, but they gave me cold sweats and headaches... I finally started going to a quack doctor who was prescribing me Adepex... which is more like real speed... it gave me the incentive to start walking 3 miles a day and to start working out and eating well... I lost about 25-30 lbs... and I have gained weight back, but that's only because I got pregnant.

No, but I probably should.

I tried Dexatrim when I was a teenager, with no result. Then I read that the medication in them is primarily used as a decongestant (phylpropanolamine)with appetite suppression being an occasional side-effect. Feh.

I would just dissappear...

It's strange you should create this survey. I have been wrestling with the idea now for a couple of days. I am strongly leaning towards taking them again.

I've taken methamphetamines. I wasn't hungry for a while afterward.

I tried over-the-counter diet pills many years ago and they didn't seem to help at all. I think it was Dexatrim, like Jody tried, so I must be one of the ones who doesn't experience the side-affect of appetite suppression. Just my luck!

What ever happened to phen-phen? I believe there are prescription based pills that work (though they sometimes kill you, oops), but mostly the allow you to lose weight. Maybe these are the ones they is describing. I think in the next decade we're likely to see diet pills that work well and are fairly safe. I've been wanting to do a survey on that, but this one touches on the subject a bit. So, maybe I'll wait.

yeah - not all diet pills are stimulants, or addictive. Some interfere with your hunger mechanisms - fen-phen affected how the brain uses serotonin, similar to some anti-depressants and psychedelics.

I think the problem is that we still have a very coarse understanding of how various physical processes work in the body, and that tinkering with something like serotonin affects a LOT of things, so we have lots of side-effects. How about nano-diet drugs which just dissolve fat away? :)

I have a tendency to forget to eat as is. I need a pill that will stimulate an appetite for healthy food.

I am fat...I feel fat. I should take about a dozen pills a day..can you tell I feel fat today? hmmm?

Nope

bullcrap

boob, you are very negative.

Bob, you are being very dark. May I suggest to you a positive session with an Onanograph?

bob is answering surveys from his pool.

I took dexatrim and some chocolate flavored chewy supposed-appetite- suppressants when I was a senior in HS. I took it to try and control my compulsive eating. I lost a few pounds, but the hunger did not go away, and I got headaches and tired and irritable, and my self-esteem was still low, and all I could think about was my next meal or whether I'd eaten too much in my most recent one. I finally gave it up a few months later when a friend loved me enough to dump my purse out and throw the pills away, and most of all told me he loved me as I was. The incessant hunger disappeared a few months thereafter, too.

I really, really do not recommend diet pills.