Alli/Orlistat - anyone taken this recently?

[Ladygooner]

Wondered if anyone has bought any of these pills over the counter from Boots to lose weight? Any success stories to tell or any negative stories?

[HAL9000]

A relative was recently prescribed Orlistat and asked me to check it out on the web: I couldn't find anything that merited serious concern.

It's method of action is quite interesting: it's not absorbed into the body but rather stays in the intestinal tract where it binds with the enzyme that usually breaks down fats so they can be absorbed. The result is that fats remain in the gut and are passed out undigested. The main side effects are issues like oily stools, leakage, flatulence, etc.

I didn't realise it was available OTC. I'd be tempted to try it if my diet wasn?t virtually fat free these days.

[woofmarkthedog]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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The main side

> effects are issues like oily stools, leakage,

> flatulence, etc.

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The usual then........which is nice!

[RosieH]

I was in the supermarket the other day, talking to my friend on the phone who was telling me all about her weight loss on account of swine flu. No idea what my side of the conversation gave away, but a lovely lady came and tapped me on the shoulder to interrupt the conversation and said that if I was talking about Alli, I should be aware that it makes you shit yourself.

[HonaloochieB]

RosieH Wrote:

No idea what my side of the conversation gave away,

> but a lovely lady came and tapped me on the

> shoulder to interrupt the conversation and said

> that if I was talking about Alli, I should be

> aware that it makes you shit yourself.

Ignore her RosieH she's just trying to put the wind up you.

[Sandperson]

Yes, I never thought I'd say it here but the words anal and leakage are commonly associated with the product.

[reenie40]

Read an article a while ago by someone who was doing a one month trial. The bit that put me off was when she woke in the middle of the night lying in a puddle of 'an olive oil like substance', and for the rest of the month couldn't go out without a jumper around her waist or a long top as a the 'olive oil substance' continued to leak at inopportune moments. Think I'd rather be a bit fat!