I know I seem to go on a lot about quick fixes, but this is what the majority of people are trying to use to lose weight, be it fad diets, amphetamine based pills, "carb blocker" pills (yeah, sure), laxatives or a plethora of detoxes that kill fat for good!
As I've said several times, this just won't work in the long term. What you might not realise is that a lot of these things can also cause some damage to your body, both short term and long term. Some are more obvious than others, not eating causes, well, death (as well as building up your fat stores anyway - it's the muscle that you lose), purging has a similar effect as well with the bonus of teeth erosion from stomach acid and laxatives cause malnutrition from lack of absorption, fishers (tears/cuts in the anal passage) and potentially bowel problems in the future. Some detoxes can do this also as well as take away a lot of your good bacterias.
What about ones you don't know?
I'm going to cover a few more of these quick fixes that you might not know about, but first I'd like to share a very recent experience with you all. As a warning for the guys out there, I am about to talk about periods! So if you're one of those dudes that can't hear about "that girl thing", I suggest you skim passed the next paragraph. I'll signal you or something when it's safe.
So for those that don't know, I am on Implanon, a contraceptive that is a rod inserted into the arm protecting you from pregnancy for three years (or as I like to call it, god's greatest gift to women since vibrators). As a quick overview, Implanon works by artificially producing and regulating hormones and stopping ovulation. As a result, some people can get either irregular bleeding or their periods can just stop altogether for some amount of time. As for me, I am quite lucky and my periods stopped altogether.
With my first Implanon, I would only bleed every eight months or so, my second I hadn't bled at all for two years, until two weeks ago. I was extremely surprised to find that I had gotten my period out of the blue, although that's how it tends to happen with Implanon. I had no pain which was odd, that usually accompanies them, given the large build up over time (sorry for getting a little graphic). So that annoyingly lasted for four or five days. At first I attributed it to just a build up, but then found that it was odd that the discrepancies of time (period on my first Implanon vs the time took on my second Implanon). Irregular bleeding on Implanon typically tends happen the first few months or the last few months before it has to get taken out. Given that I'm just about dead on two years, it definitely didn't fit into either of those categories. I then started to ponder if it was the Duromine causing this to happen.
As you may or may not know, high levels of stress on the body can lead to irregular bleeding, be it mental stress or physical stress from lots of exercise. Given that Duromine works by putting the body into a bit of a flight phase in order to pump up your metabolism and other functions to burn fat, resulting in higher blood pressure, dizziness, alertness to name a few. Not ruling out the potential of a regular old build up, I just waited it out.
Exactly one week after the period had finished, it started again! I decided that this was definitely not good news. Googling didn't really give me much (and it's not the best place to go for medical advice, let's face it) so I made an appointment with the doctor the following day.
I went to the sexual health clinic because I just don't trust general practitioners with anything sexual health related as the majority of them are well out of date with their information (a little fact I learned whilst studying sexual health myself). The doctor I saw checked a few resources and Duromine is not a listed drug that effects Implanon or vice versa. After discussing a few potential causes, we agreed that what could be "unofficially" (as in, not medically recorded anywhere from studies) happening in my body is that my liver is into overdrive and metabolising my hormones from Implanon. Bad bad news. Ovulation wise I'm still protected, but by metabolising the hormones, it is creating me to have a period when I shouldn't need to. I needed to control this as I had a big competition coming up and didn't want to be worrying about such things getting in and out of costumes (not to mention also the fact that it is kind of destroying my body). So for the short term, I am on the regular "irregular bleeding" treatment of additionally taking the pill to try to control it. Obviously this also isn't something you should do in the long term as it's doubling up on hormones (which I'm praying doesn't cause more problems), but it will hopefully allow me to regain control.
Alternatively, the other obvious answer would be to get the hell off the Duromine (which I am a little surprised wasn't mentioned to me), however I still have a bit more fat to try to lose. Stupidest response ever, I know.
Long story short, Duromine can cause your body to go into so much overdrive it actually causes your body to do a variety of stress related responses, including unnecessary periods.
(Welcome back boys!)
There are obviously many other risks and harmful things Duromine can do to your body, but this was just my most recent experience. I have also had to get up quickly out of bed in a bit of a panic (pup was trying to throw up and had to try to get her out of my room, running to the door to sign for a parcel) which has caused me dizziness to the point where I have to immediately lie down afterwards because I'm about to blackout.
Other listed medical issues are rise in blood pressure, body temperature, anxiety, aggression and of course, the good old risk of cardiac infarction, especially with long term use, better known as a heart attack.
This is why eating well and exercising is crucial to taking Duromine in order to try to keep your blood pressure down, not build it up further. Exercise needs to be light so you don't pass out like I nearly do when I just get out of bed.
I was going to cover a few more "what quick fixes can do to you" but I'll have to make that another entry, this has been long enough!
Stay tuned!
-MM
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