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I'm curious about your experience with dextroamphetamine in regards to appetite. Besides attention disorders it's sometimes prescribed for binge eating and seems to work well. I once took a (possibly too large) dose of it and sure enough I felt no desire to eat anything for the whole day, along with feeling a bit jittery. You mention trying to lose weight so is it not working in that way for you? Or if it does to a small extent, are you expecting to gain weight after going off of it?
Dextroamphetamine does reduce my appetite. When I first started taking it I had some hopes that I would just start losing weight, but that didn't happen. Appetite or no, I enjoy eating too much. However it has been helpful in making dieting easier than it normally would. I've had a concentrated campaign of trying to lose weight for 7 months now and I've managed to lose about 20 pounds. Skipping breakfast, not eating any sweets or fast food, small lunches, vaguely counting calories, that sort of thing. Even with dextroamphetamine it has been difficult to do.
I was a bit worried switching to bupropion would sabotage my weight loss efforts, but apparently suppressing appetite is a known side effect. Supposedly dextroamphetamine works by stimulating the release of dopamine, and bupropion is supposed to lower the rate dopamine is removed from the brain, so I guess it makes sense they have similar effects there.
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