If the doctor thinks it will help your transition to a new eating plan, you may be prescribed appetite suppressants as part of your treatment. By suppressing your appetite, your transition to a new and healthier eating plan is made easier.

When combined with the diet which our doctor will select for you, and aided perhaps by some extra exercise, you will be well placed to achieve a permanent loss of weight and to maintain that lower weight into the future.

Our appetite suppressant medications include diethylpropion and phentermine.  Both have been in use for many years by millions of patients throughout the world. They are specially licensed and controlled medications, subject to strict regulatory controls.

Until recently obesity was regarded as a cosmetic problem, as opposed to a medical problem, so these appetite suppressants were not available on the NHS.   Because of this very few GPs know how they work and some think of them as being amphetamines which they definitely are not.   We would be happy to explain the difference to you or your GP if you would care to telephone us.

Reductil ® is one of the newer appetite suppressants used for reducing weight and maintaining this weight loss. Unlike other medications, Reductil ® tends to make you feel full rather than not hungry. Reductil® has been used by over 1.5 million patients.   

Weight management with Reductil ® is most effective when integrated with a carefully monitored programme of healthy eating, physical activity and life-style modification.

We are not currently prescribing Acomplia (also called Rimonabant). the FDA has refused for the time being to licence Acomplia in the USA and the English authorities have raised some concerns about possible side-effects.   Since we are not prepared to do anything that could possibly jeopardise our patients' health, we are not prescribing it until its safety has been firmly established.  

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