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Xenical



USES: This medication is used with a reduced-calorie diet to help significantly overweight persons lose weight. It also helps to prevent regaining weight previously lost. Orlistat works by blocking some of the fat normally digested by the intestine.


 
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Xenical

Uses
This medication is used with a reduced-calorie diet to help significantly overweight persons lose weight. It also helps to prevent regaining weight previously lost. Orlistat works by blocking some of the fat normally digested by the intestine.
Notes
  • Do not share this medication with others.
  • Follow your doctor-approved nutritional, reduced-calorie diet containing about 30 percent calories from fat.
  • Also, exercise is recommended; however, first consult your doctor or pharmacist.

Storage
  • Store at room temperature (77 degrees F, 25 degrees C) away from light and moisture.


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How To Use
  • HOW TO USE THIS MEDICATION: Take this drug by mouth, generally three times daily during (or up to one hour after) each main meal that contains fat.
  • Your daily intake of fat, protein and carbohydrate should be evenly spread over three main meals.
  • If a meal is occasionally missed or contains no fat, skip that dose of the medication.
  • Because this drug can interfere with absorption of fat-soluble vitamins (e.g., A,D,E,K), a daily multivitamin supplement containing these nutrients is recommended.
  • Take the multivitamin at least 2 hours before or 2 hours after this drug (e.g., at betdime).
  • The effects of this drug may begin as soon as 1-2 days after treatment begins; noticeable weight loss will take longer.

Side Effects
  • Fatty/oily stool, oily spotting, intestinal gas with discharge, bowel movement urgency or poor bowel control may occur.
  • If these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor promptly.
  • Side effects may increase in intensity if you exceed your daily dietary fat allowance.
  • If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.

Precautions
  • Tell your doctor your medical history, including any allergies, digestive disorders (malabsorption or cholestasis); low thyroid function (hypothyroidism) or other metabolism problems (e.g., oxalate kidney stones, hyperoxaluria).
  • This drug should not be used if you have anorexia nervosa or bulemia-type eating disorders.
  • Tell your doctor if you are pregnant before using this medication.
  • The manufacturer does not recommend use of this drug during pregnancy.
  • It is not known whether this drug is excreted into breast milk.
  • Because of the potential risk to the infant, breast-feeding while using this drug is not recommended.
  • Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.

Missed Dose
  • If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you remember.
  • If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule.
  • Do not double the dose to catch up.

Drug Interactions
  • Tell your doctor of all prescription and nonprescription medication you may use, especially cyclosporine; "statins" for cholesterol (e.g., pravastatin); "blood thinners" (e.g., warfarin); drugs for diabetes (e.g., insulin) or other drugs used for weight loss.
  • Do not start or stop any medicine without doctor or pharmacist approval.

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User Medicine Opinions for Xenical
Overall: 4 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 3 out of 5
Healing Power: 5 out of 5
No dependency problems: 4 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 5 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 55
Location: Canada
Time Taken: 4days times

Reason: overweight Date: 24 September 2008
Side Effects
Orange Stool, oil discharge that comes without me knowing it

Additional Thoughts


Overall: 4 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 4 out of 5
Healing Power: 5 out of 5
No dependency problems: 5 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 4 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 40
Time Taken: 5 days

Reason: Incentive to eat less high fat food Date: 3 July 2007
Side Effects
None to date

Additional Thoughts
2nd comment, not sure what happened to the first...anyhow...I have read alot about this med and I think it can mean different things to different people. For me, I am taking it as a deterrence from eating high fat junk food. I have lost 60+ lbs in the past 24 months and stuck at 195 (5'7) due to mental block. I am using Alli (from Costco-150 pills for $66) to help get past this. I do not eat more than 15gm of fat per meal and average 1200-1400 cal's per day. I do not want the gross side effects so as long as I take this med, 1 or 2 x per day until they are gone, I will NOT eat high fat food. I will post back and update on occasion. Highly recommend this for people who are already willing to eat less high fat foods in the diet and need extra incentive to not binge. I do not see this med as long term help, only short term. I don't think there is any cheating either as from what others have posted about eating high fat foods 3 days AFTER not having taken xenical. I think any food eaten in

Overall: 2 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 4 out of 5
Healing Power: 5 out of 5
No dependency problems: 4 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 4 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 24
Time Taken: 7 days

Reason: overweight Date: 5 July 2007
Side Effects
oily stools,constipation,acne

Additional Thoughts
i will like to know if it's normal the acne and the constipation for the first week I am very concern, fiber has helped me a lot,I am eating very healthy but still dont see any weight loos, please someone help me..

Overall: 1 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 3 out of 5
Healing Power: 4 out of 5
No dependency problems: 5 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 5 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 44
Time Taken: 7 days

Reason: Overweight Date: 6 July 2007
Side Effects
Oily orange discharge & a chemical odor so powerful that my husband could smell it through my clothes (and I was wearing a pad!).

Additional Thoughts
Very expensive pills. Doctor didn't tell me about the extremely nasty and embarrassing side effects. I didn't stay on it long enough to see results because I couldn't stand the leakage any longer. However, I'm sure this stuff would have drained every drop of fat from my body if I could just live in the bathroom for six months straight. Now it's being marketed over the counter as ALLI. NOT recommended!!!

Overall: 4 out of 5
Low adverse Reactions 3 out of 5
Healing Power: 5 out of 5
No dependency problems: 5 out of 5
Cost-Benefit: 4 out of 5
Sex: F
Age: 28
Time Taken: 2 weeks

Reason: To lose weight Date: 6 July 2007
Side Effects
Orange Oily Stool, very minor stomach cramping, sudden urge to use the bathroom after eating food with heavy amount of fat.

Additional Thoughts
Needed to lose 20 lbs. I'm 5 foot 7 and about 165 pounds...would like to get around 145 or less. I lost 7 pounds within 7 days of starting. Worked very good for me since I'm only overweight because I eat fatty foods. If you are dieting and exercising and eating all of the right foods it may not do much, but if you are like me and have a decent metabolism but do not eat the right foods it seems to work wonders. Also I'm only taking half of the normally prescribed dose.

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