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Side Effects
Appetite suppressants may cause some serious side effects, including heart and lung problems. You and your doctor should discuss the good this medicine may do as well as the risks of taking it.
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br> Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with y
our doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Chest pain; decreased ability to exercise ; fainting; swelling of feet or lower legs; trouble in breathing
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What Is It
Phendimetrazine are useful only during the first few weeks of a weight-loss program as their appetite-reducing effect tends to decrease after a few weeks. The Phendimetrazine can help you to lose weig
ht while you are learning new ways to eat and to exercise. Changes in eating habits and activity level must be developed and continued long-term in order for you to continue losing weight and to keep
the lost weight from returning
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Precautions while Using this Medicine
Your doctor should check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine does not cause unwanted effects.
If you think this medicine is not working properly after you have tak
en it for a few weeks, do not increase the dose. Instead, check with your doctor.
Do not take an appetite suppressant with or less than 14 days after taking a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibito
r. If you do, you may very suddenly develop extremely high blood pressure.
Taking a sympathomimetic appetite suppressant may cause a positive result in urine screening tests for amphetamines.
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Other Medicines
Tell your doctor if you are taking any of the following:
- Appetite suppressants (diet pills), other or
- There have been some serious unwanted effects on the hearts of people who used two
different appetite suppressants together
- Amantadine (e.g., Symmetrel) or
- Cocaine or
- Medicine for asthma or other breathing problems or
- Medicine for colds, sinus problems, or
hay fever or other allergies or
- Methylphenidate (e.g., Ritalin) or
- Nabilone (e.g., Cesamet) or
- Pemoline (e.g., Cylert)
- Monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor activity
- Amp
hetamines or
- Caffeine (e.g., NoDoz) or
- Chlophedianol (e.g., Ulone)
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Symptoms of overdose
Abuse of a sympathomimetic appetite suppressant (taking the medicine in larger doses or taking it more frequently or for a longer time than the doctor ordered) can cause the following side effects:
Changes in personality; excessive, excited activity; irritability (severe); mental illness (severe), similar to schizophrenia; skin disease; trouble in sleeping (severe)
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What special precautions should I follow?
Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Alcohol abuse (or history of) or
- Drug abuse or dependence (or history of)¡XDependence on appetite suppr
ssants may be more likely to develop
- Diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes)¡XThe amount of insulin or oral antidiabetic medicine that you need to take may change
- Epilepsy¡XDiethylpropion may
ncrease the risk of having seizures
- Family history of mental illness¡XMental depression or other mental illness may be more likely to occur
- Glaucoma or
- Heart or blood vessel disea
e or
- High blood pressure or
- Mental illness or
- Overactive thyroid¡XAppetite suppressants may make the condition worse
- Kidney disease
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