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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your friend is probably very insecure about his own weight, and also anxious about trying this drug himself because he's in a position to read about the clinical trial dossiers and post-commercialization reports on severe side effects.

I have to say, as a biologist working in pharma, he's not wrong: some people have died due to complications from slow-moving bowels, and a lot of people taking this drug will realize they can't stop taking it, otherwise the weight will come back. If I had weight issues, I would hesitate to try it too, because I've read some research articles about it that are quite disturbing!

Let's just say it's not the miracle drug people think it is. I hope your husband and sibling are very educated about it and know the limitations of their medication.

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I totally disagree. I think it is a miracle drug. 75 percent of Americans are overweight. This drug helps tremendously, with relatively manageable side effects. To ignore that is so short sighted. [/quote]

What’s truly short sighted is to use drugs to fix the *symptom* rather than address the underlying problem.

(i.e. [b]why[/b] are 75 percent of Americans overweight in the first place?)[/quote]

I don’t think any of us would disagree with that. But it will take a generation or more to accomplish. I’m living now and need a solution now. Having lost and regained 30-50 pounds 5 different times during my life, this medicine is giving me hope that I can hit a normal weight and cut back to a small maintenance dose and be healthy for the long term. [/quote]

These drugs are essentially appetite suppressants?  Is that right?[/quote]

It’s not that. It does something to the inflammatory response and one side effect is appetite suppression, but it’s more than that. My close friend who went on it had her lifelong severe rosacea clear up within a month of starting, before any serious weight was lost. Her dermatologist told her that she’s seeing the same thing with other patients.

I don’t know what is going on but weight is just one piece of the puzzle here. [/quote]

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