Acomplia Side Effects Is it True?
Acomplia the first diet pill that revolutionized the weight loss treatments is well known in our days for it’s miraculous results. Nowadays obesity is a huge problem for our health. More and more people are obese. This is because we do not take care of what we eat, we eat more and more unhealthy food every day, with allot of calories, high in fats and the list can continue. Now the helping hand that acomplia can give for obese people who want to follow a treatment with acomplia is that it blocks the center of the brain responsible with the appetite.
As I said in one of my previous articles where I told you some tips on how to minimize the effects of the changes that it will happen when following a rimonabant acomplia weight loss treatment, the “side effects” are normal and actually the same without any help from a diet pill. The difference is that acomplia accelerates the effect of the diet and that is why you feel the side effects more harsher. You can minimize them by eating more fruits and drink more orange, lemon or grapefruit juice, do exercices and take long relaxing walks in parks or somewhere in nature.
Something to take into consideration when taking acomplia
It was said at one moment that one of acomplia side effects was depression. Studies showed that this kind of side effects appear only for persons that have been taking some prescription antidepressants drugs in the passed and have some mental instabilities. Also acomplia (rimonabant) is not recommended for teens under 21 years old. The reason behind this is that the brain is still under development until the age of 21 and by blocking certain brain centers could lead to some unpleasant long term side effects.
Do not take rimonabant with alcohol! I insist on it because many people are saying so what, if i take pills the worst thing that will happen is that they will not have any effect. They are wrong. Mixing acomplia (rimonabant), or any other diet, erectile dysfunciton or whatever other pill, with alcohol can get you to the hospital with bad liver and stomach damage.
DO NOT OVERDOSE. Always respect the prescription that the doctor or a weight loss specialist gave you. You will not obtain any quick results if you take more pills. That will intoxicate your body and you will end up in the hospital with bad liver damage or worse brain damage, or even worse.
Take this into consideration when dieting with acomplia (rimonabant), and with hope that this will help you in your fight against obesity i wish you good luck and belive in what I say: you will have a smile on your face each time when you look in the mirror if you respect the diet properly and consult your weight loss specialist each time you encounter a problem.
I’d taken rimonabant with alcohol and it works like I’d taken too much alcohol. Is it possible?
... wrote by luiz roberto felizzola on December 24th, 2007 at 8:04 am.
Hello!
Thank you for your comment. There is a simple answer to your question. As with any weight loss pills and other pills you should never use alcohol. The problem with alcohol is that it is very hard for the liver to process it. So taking rimonabant with alcohol makes it even harder for your liver to process the alcohol because it has do deal with the components of the pill. So following this the alcohol gets faster in your blood and you feel the effects as if you drank too much. Because the liver is already busy with processing rimonabant giving him alcohol will not help it do the job as he must do. Following this is the effect of “confusing” the liver on his job and there for you can experience head aches and vomit. Taking alcohol with the pill will do sooner or later damage and you can end up in the hospital with sever liver damage. Please be careful with rimonabant as well with any other pill you might take.
As an advice please do not take alcohol only after 24 hours have passed since you took the last pill of rimonabant.
Thank you again for your comment and if you have more questions please feel free to ask and we will answer as soon as possible.
Best regards and good luck with your diet!
... wrote by admin on December 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pm.
Hummm, maybe another reason why you shouldn’t mix alcohol and rimonabant is due to the psychodepressive characteristics of alcohol, which could induce, in those patients with a psychiatric history or a tendency to depression, a full blown depression which could lead to all the behaviors we already know, including suicide.
Just something to think about…
... wrote by Ricardo on February 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm.
Yes, you are right Ricardo. This is one other reason that rimonabant should not be taken with alcohol. The tendencies to suicide applies only to patients with psychiatric history and to those people rimonabant is not prescribed, only under strict supervision of their doctor.
... wrote by admin on February 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 am.
is it ok to take the odd one or two alcoholic drinks while on this medication if you do not have a mild depression, say just once a week for example you drank four uk units of alcohol?
... wrote by elaine on June 26th, 2008 at 8:31 pm.