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I Was Addicted to the Weight-Loss Drug for 15 Years: ‘I’d Spiraled to a Dark Place

Step Up to a Lighter Place –

July 11, 2019 – How easy would it be, I thought, to just take a pill and not be hungry? For an emotional eater like me, it seemed like the perfect solution. I looked up the nearest medical weight-loss clinic and took the first appointment. The year was 2001, and I picked the clinic with the nicest ad in the phone book. Little did I know, I would eventually visit them all.

When I stepped on the scale at the clinic, it read 170. I was informed that my BMI was firmly in the overweight category for my height. I am 5’6, so a normal weight for someone my height can be anywhere between 118-148 pounds. The doctor talked to me briefly about healthy habits, and prescribed phentermine, a commonly prescribed amphetamine-like medication used to suppress appetite.

Phentermine is one of four FDA-approved weight-loss drugs intended for short-term use only. (Five other medicines are approved for long-term use.) Potential side effects include an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, insomnia, constipation, and nervousness. On more than one occasion, I woke up with my heart beating out of my chest—scary as fuck, but not scary enough to make me stop.

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Leonard Buschel

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