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[quote=Anonymous]I am.   It's been 4 years now, maybe more even?  I love it, it's made a huge difference for me.

How it helps is that it suppresses my appetite by making me feel actually full. Like if I eat more I might get sick. That said, I think often times it helps in a placebo way though.  I don't have health insurance so it's a huge financial commitment and that helps my willpower to not binge.  I find myself thinking that if I binge on a day I took it, it's like flushing that $$ down the toilet.

I feel like it takes away the bingeing that think is driven by pure biological/chemical reasons.  It hasn't made me stop completely or anything but the type of binges I have now are more the mental weakness/stress/emotional eating type. So that's a % less of binge occurrences.

But, my body gets used to it and I have to either keep upping the dose or I take time off so it's effective again for a while when I start.  Basically I cycle on and off times with it; two months on, 3 week off or something like that. My dose is supposed to be 35mg but I usually take more like 50-55mg nowadays.  I also play a bit by taking it like 4-5 days in a row and then off for a few days.

Prescribed and monitored by by primary care doctor.

To be perfectly I probably don't have the healthiest relationship with the medication anymore.  I'm probably "recovered" enough to not take it but since it's basically speed, I think it helps keep my weight down just for that. [/quote]

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