The first night I took it I slept til 5:30 the next evening...my pdoc said over time that side effect would improve by about 20%. Um, not good enough. I had another friend who got knocked on her bottom by it, too...so definitely try it on a friday or saturday or some night where you have nothing else to do the next day. My pdoc swears not everyone has such a strong "knocked-out" effect by it.

He said I might get more hungry than I had been (but I am underweight a bit)...I told him if that were to become an issue (for me that is gaining more than 3 lbs), I stop. But I have some food and control issues, obviously. Anyway, we never got to that pt. with it anyway.

He did say people gain weight on it from eating more from being hungry, not just the drug itself.

I wish you the best of luck, finding the right med is so hard...I still haven't.