SLIMMING PILLS EFFECTS

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Tired of your bad looking fat and the ways to reduce it? Looking for  easy and quick methods to drive out fat? And for the same, opting some pills? But wait! After reading this article, you will surely change your decision. Here is a case showing hazardous effect of slimming pill on a 29 yr old lady.

When Louise Craig visited a diet clinic in Falkirk she wasn't asked about her diet or lifestyle. After ten minutes she left with a supply of appetite-suppressing pills in her handbag. But far from losing pounds, the 28-year-old almost lost her life just three days after taking the first pill. 

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'I couldn't stand or lift my head.' Louise Craig, 28, was so desperate to slim that she turned to pills - but instead of losing weight, she almost lost her life

At 13st and 5ft 5in, Louise was so desperate to slim for a holiday, having unsuccessfully 'tried every diet going', she admits she paid no heed to either the credentials of the clinic or the dangers of such a pill. 

'After years of trying to slim, it felt like someone had handed me a lifeline,' says Louise, a housing support manager. 'The clinic's doctor took my height, weight and blood pressure, handed me a supply of Ionamin appetite suppressants and said the only common side-effects were a dry mouth and sleep disturbance. It seemed so easy and so safe.' 

But within hours of taking the first pill, Louise developed flu-like symptoms  - a heavy head and aching limbs. Terrifyingly, three days later she became delirious and suffered palpitations, double vision and numbness in her arms and legs. 'When I tried to stand up my legs buckled and I collapsed,' recalls Louise. 'I couldn't open my eyes or lift my head up and my mum says I was talking utter nonsense. She and my sister took me to hospital. 

'Doctors took one look at me and assumed I'd taken recreational drugs, something I would never do. Mum then gave them the packaging for the diet pills, at which point I was urgently attached to a heart monitor. It took two doses of sedatives to stabilize my erratic heart rate.' 

Chillingly, the medical team said that if Louise's mum had not taken her to hospital, she would almost certainly have suffered a heart attack that night. 

Louise still retains the file of paperwork relating to her own case, which resulted in the clinic being investigated by the Forth Valley NHS Trust. Perhaps tellingly, the clinic is no more, though Louise is unclear whether its closure was linked to her case.

 

It's a disturbing story, more so because Louise had been prescribed the diet pills  -  the subsequently banned amphetamine-based Phentermine, which was marketed as Ionamin and Duromine  -  by a qualified doctor. 

The drug was banned in the UK in 2000 after fears it could lead to heart disease and because it was being distributed by slimming clinics without the associated risks being explained. 

To the horror of many healthcare professionals it was reinstated in November 2002, but as a prescription-only.

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