There's a diet pill that your doctor can give you called Meridian (not sure if that's the correct spelling)
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Please do not try diet pills because they are not the long term answer and many can cause negative health effects. Consider a healthy lifestyle change.
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Meredia. I was on several years ago. Its not covered by insurance and is about 125.00+ depending on the milligrams. It worked well. I lost a good amount of weight. But it only works for about 3-4 months and then you go off of it. I gained some of the weight back. So you really have to make a lifestyle change.
MERIDIA is a prescription medication that's used along with a reduced-calorie diet to help people lose weight and keep it off.
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There is a diet pill that your doctor can prescribe for you.. I apologize I can't remember the name, but it is the chemical name. I don't think it's called Meridian. The only problem with diet pills by prescription is that most insurances with put them on their non preferred brand list. That is because most diet pills do not have a generic, and insurances do not want to pay for your diet pills, because they figure you are going to have more problems with pills than you would with diet and exercise. it's all about money with insurance companies. i am a pharmacy tech, deal with insurance every day. ok, i just found the drug in my PDR book... it's called Meridia, no "n". it is used for people with a body mass index or BMI of 30 or more..there are about 16 different drugs that it contraindicates with, that is a lot. my book also says that the saftey and efficiency of this pill has not been determined for more than 2 years.
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