Hey I've been reading a lot of forums to see other peoples experiences after recently starting duromine and I was really afraid to take it at first because I also take effexor anti depressant for severe panic disorder and I had heard a lot of bad things about taking the 2 together but my doctor reassured me that I would be perfectly safe and I go for weekly check ups to see how I'm going too, I used to weigh 75kgs.
But since 2 years on the anxiety meds I gained 20kgs and could not lose it no matter what, I had bloods done and my insulin levels had risen a lot from them making it impossible to lose weight so yeah, I started on the 15mg about a month/5 weeks ago and after a week not losing any weight I went to 30mg and could really feel it working and was great the first couple of days but after the 3rd day I started feeling anxious and sick had to come home from work coz I started freaking out, felt better after then that night I woke up in the middle of the night heart racing and pretty much in a panic attack it was so scary I kept thinking I was gonna die or have a heart attack but I tried to keep calm and go back to sleep.
Then the next day I would wake up feeling fine again, this kept happening every night and I kept trying to fight it but it started getting worse like the anxiety started kicking in the late evening and I would just feel horrible and scared all night then the 7th day I took my younger sister out coz she had come to visit for the weekend and then all of a sudden while we were out I started getting really anxious again and I felt like I couldn't breathe properly.
I was completely freaking out and I had no one to call coz my partner was at work so I had to drive 20mins home having a major panic attack it was soo scary I thought I was gonna crash and then once I got home I wanted to go to hospital but couldn't find anyone to take me so I called someone to try calm me down then took a Valium and went to sleep that was the last day I took them and then the next day I was so depressed and disappointed in myself for stopping coz they were working so well I had lost 5 kilos in the one week and I was so happy to see the scales go down after 2 years of trying everything to lose weight.
So I went back to the doctors and they said I did the right thing stopping them for the time being because of my mental health so they came up with another plan to wait 1 week to allow my body to go back to normal then start back on 30mg but every second day in stead, believe me I was so scared after the first experience but had to give it ago because I really wanted to lose weight and thought if worse comes to worse I can stop. So I have now been on it for just over 2 weeks taking it every second day instead and am doing really well this time
I do get the odd anxiety ever now and then but nothing like before and because I already suffer anxiety disorders I knew I would be more prone to that side effect, the only thing that annoys me abit is the no sleeping, I was fine the first week but last 5 days I haven't been able to sleep.
Hardly at all maybe 2 to 3 hours a night but hoping that will wear off again soon other then that doing great, cut out all fizzy drink which I was addicted too lol and have much smaller meals and full quicker
so, so far I have lost 5.5 kgs all together because after stopping the first time I ate a lot of crappy food coz I wanted to give up and felt sorry for myself for having to stop then that week I put 2 kilos back on then since starting again I've lost 2 and a half kilos so my starting weight was 94 and I'm currently 88.5 hoping to get down 70 owe and I'm 22 yrs old not sure on my height but I know I'm classified as obese with Bmi levels, sorry for the novel lol was just trying to share my experience and suggest the every second day option to see if that may be more successful for you
goodluck!
