diet.pills

Along with laxatives, ipecac, and diuretics, this is another substance that, after taking it for a short time, your body will become use to and it will then require more-and-more diet pills to get the same effect. Diet pills can range from the typical ones that you see at the store such as Dexatrim, to "diet pills in disguise" such as caffeine pills that are used as appetite suppressants. Common problems experienced during the abuse of diet pills include dizziness, jitteriness, insomnia, and high blood pressure. Below are more symptoms:

• Headaches
• Vomiting
• Shallow Breathing
• Blurred Vision
• Hallucinations
• Convulsions/Seizures
• Fatigue
• Chest Pains

You'll see above that I listed hallucinations as one of the side-effects of diet pill abuse. Realize that I'm not just talking about little hallucinations where you think your cat is talking to you. A friend of mine took diet pills and hallucinated that spiders were crawling all over her and her room, while another friend of mine remembers the music playing slow down and her room spin after taking a dose of diet pills. Taking diet pills along with other medications such as anti-depressants can also cause an OD or lessen the effects of each medication. All in all, you can make your own judgement on what is worthwhile - Taking these pills and getting hallucinations and possible lifelong medical damage, or not falling into the diet trap and saving your money.

diuretics

Last but not least, here is the abuse of "water pills." Diuretics are similar to laxatives in that the person *thinks* they are losing weight, when indeed all they are losing is vital fluids. Diuretics not only elevate your heart rate leading to heart arrythmias and dizziness, but the dehydration that follows leads to kidney and other organ damage. Because of the amount of fluid lost after the abuse of these pills you also mess up your balance of electrolytes within your body, which is another way you end up just asking for heart arrythmias. In the end, you also regain back all of the fluid that you lost in the beginning and the body retains more water to try and account for what was taken out, causing you to feel even fatter than before.

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