I've been on Mysimba for eight months now. Would have liked to have joined a support thread at the start, but only just spotted this one!
In eight months I've lost nearly four stone, twenty five percent of my body weight, and bmi has gone from 32 to 23. I never set a target because the guidelines said you would only lose 5-8% and I had planned to try the least expensive med first before moving onto injections.
As it happens it worked so well there was no need to change.
Trying to stabilise my weight now, but still losing a pound a week even on only one tablet a day. You have to buy 112 tablets monthly so I now have a nine month stock pile which I plan to use to hopefully reset my 'set point.' Don't know if that is how it works but definitely too scared to try going it alone.
For me these tablets have been a miracle. Yes, I've changed my life style: high protein and fibre, minimal carbs, and upping my exercise, but I wasn't able to do that without the help. The food noise completely vanished pretty much overnight. No interest in snacking and now I enjoy food, whereas previously I just enjoyed eating, if that makes sense.
Side effects have been minimal: nausea and stomach pain for the first two months, some hair loss, which had settled now, and an ongoing tendency to constipation.
My only regret is that I increased my dose up to four tablets daily on the schedule advised and I didn't need to go that far. I would have preferred to have lost weight a little more slowly.
Good luck to anyone else using/considering these meds. Hope you too have a good result.