Back to the "Meridia" thing again! :-P

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Back to the "Meridia" thing again! :-P
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Thu, 08-28-2003 - 12:53pm
Well, I think it's kinda weird that I can't find anything about this drug on the Internet except what's on the meridia.net web site...I looked at the link I was given to an article on iVillage, and one person talked about Meridia, but not too indepth...I was really trying hard to find, like, a discussion board or a place where people talk about the drug and what it's done for them or hasn't done for them...but all I find when I look it up is all those online pharmacies that sell it "cheap" without the need for insurance...

Anyone have any idea as to why this might be? :'( I'm all diappointed now...

~Ri

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 12:02am
Hi Ri,

>>...I was really trying hard to find, like, a discussion board or a place where people talk about the drug and what it's done for them or hasn't done for them...

**I am surprised too .. Try this and see if it helps ..

Let me know :)

~Hugs~

http://www.ivillage.com/diet/features/memtips/articles/0,,192151_220940,00.html

http://www.ivillagehealth.com/news/archive/0,13611,412636,00.html

          Click & Join the fun!
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 10:32am
Hi! Well, the first article I've read before---it's really the only one that I've ever seen that had something in it that was a personla account of someone taking the medication.

The other list of links didn't have anything on Meridia--however it did have a heart-warming story about a man who went in for surgery to have a tumor removed from his bladder and woke up without a penis... :-) LOL "Texas man wakes up after operation, penis missing" (Not to laugh at others' misfortune, but the title made me say: "WHAT?!?!")

Thank you for your help, though! I gotta find out why this whole thing is...maybe there's some sort of packet or something I can order. I downloaded of the meridia.net site the PDF file all about the drug, but again, no personal accounts.

Maybe not enough people are taking it? I can find all the info in the world about the gastric bypass that could kill me, but nothing on the medication that might save my life. Go figure...LOL

~Ri

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 10:53am


Hi Ri,

Just a thought but if there's a big drugstore chain near you,

perhaps the pharmacists there can give you info. :)

I wonder if it has a generic name that might pull up some info.

>>I can find all the info in the world about the gastric bypass that could kill me, but nothing on the medication that might save my life.

**Another thought: you might ask the bariatric surgery board:

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-bhweightloss

Here's hoping you find something. :)

~Golly

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Registered: 04-04-2002
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 2:48pm
>>meridia.net web site

**Just looked at this site out of curiosity and it looks quite comprehensive to me Ri. I sure would hope that your doctor would have any extra information other than what is offered on this site.

I think Golly's advice is really good, finding a message board like this, with people on it who have experienced taking the medication or have heard about other's experiences taking it.

Good Luck with this. Hilary

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 3:03pm
Thanks! I thought it was comprehensive as well, but I was actually looking for personal accounts all along. I don't like impersonal information just being thrown out there, and being disguised as not being so technical. :-P I wish I COULD find a board like this one for people who take weightloss medications, you know? It would be great! :-) But alas, I have yet to find one... :'( *le sigh*

:-)

~Ri

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 3:14pm
I thought I'd see if there was anything on another board about the meridia drug and this is what I found:


http://nutrition.about.com/library/weekly/aa081402a.htm?terms=meridia

~~tracy



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Registered: 04-04-2002
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 3:35pm
Hey Tracy About.com That is the first place I spent time in when I found "the internet" A good site. Hilary
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 08-29-2003 - 3:42pm
So true Hilary - - when I first found out I was hypo-thyroid, virtually Everything I learned, I learned thru that site. Their thyroid board was a life-saver to me. The i-village has a very nice thyroid board with some nice people, but at that time it just did not have the activity and breadth of knowledge that I needed to learn about what had happened to me.

~~tracy

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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sat, 08-30-2003 - 11:58am
Unfortunately I don't have much time today--but did you try a GOOGLE search???? got to www.google.com--man those searches are good!!!!
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Registered: 04-04-2002
Sat, 08-30-2003 - 2:08pm
>>I was really trying hard to find, like, a discussion board or a place where people talk about the drug and what it's done for them or hasn't done for them

** There you go kiddo, found you one! Hope it helps. http://www.bontril-meridia-phentermine-xenical.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=3&SUBMIT=Go

Hilary

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