Hi Gem, I don't know if it is "supportive" to knock something someone is going to do, as long as we know it isn't a good idea??? If not sorry, I hoped it might be... I took phentermine for awhile, not for any "extreme" purpose but to head off a problem with compulsive, neurotic eating that I used to have when visiting my parents (I didn't used to keep any tasty food or easy snacks at all at my own place, so with the selection there in addition to parental stress... you get it).

Anyway, as you may have read the appetite supressant effect of phentermine starts being ineffective for most people within a couple weeks... I read that that is why it's banned or not available in some countries, is considered a waste of time... A friend of mine and I indeed both experienced that.... Also, for me, when it worked it would supress for a few hours but when it wore off, WATCH OUT!!! Craving city, make up for all the forgone food and then some. And, it made me very irritable.

I'll leave out the part about how I'm kind of convinced I did some kind of damage to something in those three months I took it at the average dose, things that continue now, a couple years later, that had never happened before. Because I've never had it looked into and I don't know anything for sure, and mine weren't noted as symptoms/side effects anywhere that I saw.

Sorry if none of this was the right thing to say, but really I wouldn't pin any hopes on phentermine (or its cousin tenuate). I wish you the best in finding your way!