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HCG Injections for weight loss?
Alrighty ….Here I go…. For those of you who do not know me on a personal level before the forum.. I use to Dance In Atlanta for just at 10 years and weighed no more than 115 lbs.
I retired from dancing in 2007 and opened my Studio. I went to the Doc mid of 2007 for my elbow ( thought I had pole elbow… like tennis elbow) anyway went to doc to get a shot of cortozine. Next thing I know doc wanted to do blood work etc… hour later ..comes back said I had a parasite in my upper linning of my Stomache? I was like WTF i came in for my elbow? https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_scratch.gif
But since she was the doc I went with what she said and she gave 5 Rx’s. I am HIGHLY allergice to sulfur. It is clearly marked ALL over my chart even with the little red tabs.
Within 4 days of me taking the medications I was at the point where my limbs where feelling harder and harder to lift, my legs began to swell and so did my arms. I called to make appointment with her couldnt get in for another 3 days. On the 6th day, i pulled up on internet and 3 of the 5 Rxs where Sulfa and all the symptons I was having was an symptons of Sulfur overdose. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_evil.gif
I march my azz up to doc , she was not in but the other doc was.. he looks at me an goes Woo! I give him all the Rx’s she had given me.. and all he says is don’t take them any more I was having an allergice reaction . I said No Shit.!
Within the next 2 months.. I gained 50 lbs. Yes that’s right 50 lbs. I kept going back to the doc .. and she said well theres not a magic pill i can give you to make it go away… I said " Well you gave me enough magic pills to put it on .. so im calling bullshit on that ". https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_evil.gif This was one of the side effects of being basically overdoesed with sulfur.
So now it is 2010 and I have been struggeling with getting this off… I was at my wit’s end….
always depressed..Then I had a student walk in and we got to talking and she lost 80 lbs doing the HCG injections. Well I went to Doc and today is my 3rd day.. Im doing the 40 day cycle… So Keep your fingers crossed this works for me … I am going to try to remember to post before and after pictures to let ya’l see my progress. So if it works for me and someone else is considering to do the injections you can use me as a referrence.
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your doctor needs.. an ass whooping of the most extreme variety. Where was the part where you slapped the doctor in the face and told her you weren’t seeing her anymore because she was a lousy whore? I know I’m being.. rude, but seriously. Allergies are no joke. Isn’t that why we go see doctors in the first place? So we don’t end up taking something that hurts more than it cures?!…Good luck on your HCG injections. I understand how they’re supposed to work, but I thought the only reason why it did was because it .. helped with the side effects of a mega-restrictive diet? Whatever! Good luck still!
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Ditto to what amcut said.
It is your doctors responsibility to not give you stuff your alergic to. And then the office not fitting you in for what obviously wasn’t normal and was getting worse is irresponsible too. You’re way nicer than me. I would have said f*** to the whole office, taken my business elsewhere and told everyone why they shouldn’t go there. But I’m kind of like that. I will put up with somethings but certain things I just can’t tolerate.
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Yal have no idea how frusterating this has been for me. I wanted to come off the table and backhand the doc when I was told…. " Well theres not a magic pill I can give you to take it Off " . So this is why I have decided to do the HCG injections. So since today is my 3rd day, I will post my results either in 7 or 10 days to see if thier is a change yet, I hope there is and I havent just thrown this money out the window. Its not like im just sitting on my azz all day. I instruct an average of 12 -14 pole dance classes per week, plus I am on the run from the time I get up to the time i lay my head down. So wish me luck..
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Good luch with the HCG shots Georgia! I’ve known a few people who have used them and successfully lost weight! I thought about it and even talked to my dr but he wouldn’t give them to me because my BMI is with in the "healthy" range (the high end)….plus he said you’ve already lost 90 you can lose 10 more on your own…I was pissed…but he was right. I can’t wait to see your before and after pics!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
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plus he said you’ve already lost 90 you can lose 10 more on your own…I was pissed…but he was right. I can’t wait to see your before and after pics!! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif
HOLY COW! 90lbs!!! Thats awesome! Ive got 20 to go until I reach the 80lbs lost mark. My reg dr is very old school and would prolly not reccomend gastic bypass.
Ive heard about the HCG injections, but im not fully informed yet. Ive had friends who were seeing a weight loss dr and they would get a shot of b12 and a prescription for a appetitie supressant From what my husband told me – exercise physiology major, prescription strength supressant are hard core compared to OTC. They also had to eat a very bland diet w/it. One girl lost almost 50lbs in 2 mos. She looked fantastic.
Good luck with the injections and let us know how it went. We must see progression pics!
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I gained 90 lbs with my pregnancy and then worked my tail off to lose it…so he said if I could do it with 90 lbs…then I could do it with another 10lbs. So as off today I put on 90lbs and lost 100lbs!! WOOT!
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Georgiapeach, I seriously hope you’ve filed a malpractice suit against your Dr. You have a very strong case there and the entire office as well as the Pharmacy should be liable.
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Hey everyone…. o.k so its been 4 days since I started doing the injections after you do the pig out stage of the plan. And I am happy to say as of yesterday ( because I didnt want to weigh today I wanted to do it tomorrow that will make 1 week on the injections) I have already lost 6.8lbs in 3 days https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_cheers.gif . I am so happy… https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif . by sunday I am hoping to of loss a total of 15lbs.
Plus i didnt even know this but one of my friends who I havent seen in maybe 6=7 months texted me out of the blue and i told her what I was doing and she said she just finished doing the same thing. She said she lost atotal of 30lbs in 40 days.
So I am still excited about the injections and havent given up.
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Georgiapeach, I seriously hope you’ve filed a malpractice suit against your Dr. You have a very strong case there and the entire office as well as the Pharmacy should be liable.
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What are these HCG injections??? I haven’t heard of these
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Here is the link to where I go. The website can explain it better than I can http://www.rapidresultsatlanta.com
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has anyone tried the HCG drops that you can buy online? just wondering if they work. If they do, I’m getting some!
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Honestly ladies, you may not agree with me, but I don’t believe in using pills, injections, or anything other than hard work and proper (read balanced) eating. I’d be afraid of things such as kidney failure, or the loss of too much weight resulting in (particularly for women) a very bad balance of body. If women don’t have enough fat, they lose their monthly cycle, because the body doesn’t believe you are healthy enough to bear children.
However, I’m glad you’re happy. I hope it all works out well for you, ‘kay? -
I wonder how much it costs
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It sounds a little too fast to be safe or real. dunno, but of course I was curious.
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I took the HCG Injections last year and lost 20 pds in a month! The injections are $15/shot and I self administered the shot every Friday! The diet plan was okay….I couldn’t consume more than 20g of fat per day! I was also receiving the b12 shot monthly for energy and I was taking an prescription appetite suppres called addipex!! I hardly exercised nor followed the diet plan!! After I stopped taking the injections my menstral cycle stayed on for a month and a half….then I had one regular cycle….then no cycle for 5 months!!! Not sure if this was a side effect!!! But I loved the injections…and I have an appointment to back to the Bariatric Clinic to restart the program!!!
The weight stayed off for a year…..and I didn’t diet or exercise!!!
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HCG meaning Human chorionic gonadotropin hormone???
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It sounds like basically, they inject you with a hormone that pregnant women naturally produce from the placenta to increase their metabolism to burn fat off so the baby gets the nutrients it needs. This in addition to a very low calorie/high protein diet (500 cal per day) burns fat off. It also claims to burn only fat and no muscle. After all what sense would it make in nature to take away the muscle of a pregnant woman? Also it says that the type of fat (there are 3 types) that it burns off is only the abdominal fat, or the type of fat that is mostly around your middle and not the kind of fat, for instance, that is on the soles of your feet to cushion your bones when you walk. The amount they give you is only a fraction of what a pregnant woman has in her body. I suppose that makes sense, imagine a pregnant woman goes on a diet, she would probably lose a ton of weight since her metabolism is kicked up so high. Not that it would be healthy for the baby o.O Ive researched it and so far no deaths have been recorded because of this. I wouldnt take my crappy researched word on it though. But since all they are injecting you with is a fraction of a hormone that is naturally produced in your body during pregnancy doesnt sound dangerous. What I wonder is, since its seems to be such a miracle fat cure, why is it sooo cheap? Less than $300 to burn off 30lbs or more in a month without invasive procedures or surgery or anything? Its not FDA approved either, but then again, Depo-provera IS FDA approved and it gave me osteopenia and im only 19 https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif so I wouldnt base much on that https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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This sounds interesting. I’m thinking of trying this. How should I get started? Should I see a certain doctor as well as my own first? I checked out the website mentioned in this forum and glad to see a lot of good testimonials and some real info on any side affects and what to expect. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_razz.gif
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This is just my personal opinion:
Ladies. There is no miracle cure for weightloss other than surgery which literally decreases the size of your stomach. Any supplement that claims you will lose lots of fat and no muscle without changing your diet or exercise in a limited amount of time is lying. Any supplement that is not approved by the FDA means that there is little known about the side effects of the drug or that what is known about it shows it is dangerous or ineffective (as pointed out earlier, some drugs approved by the FDA are still awful so what is in those that they don’t approve??!). Please do your research before trying these since there is no long-term study that shows the effect it could have on your body.
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It is far more likely that the low calorie diet it is paired with is causing weightloss or that the thought that the shots help you lose weigth makes you less stressed out about food and so you end up eating less (placebo effect). Trust me, if the drug was actually effective they would be charging up the A$$ for the stuff!!!
Our bodies are VERY good at holding on to fat, they are designed to do so! To claim that you will lose only fat and no muscle even if you don’t work out is plainly unscientific. Your body WILL burn muscle before it does fat if you aren’t working out because muscle takes far more energy to maintain and our bodies are, once again, very good at conserving energy and holding on to fat.Weight loss is hard. It takes physical work. It takes mental energy. It takes discipline. Please don’t cheat yourself out of the feeling of accomplishment you will get when you do it all on your own! I personally wouldn’t take the risk of putting some substance whose effect is not trully known in my body, especially hormone which can serisouly wreak havoc on your entire system. Again, just my personal opinion, I am not trying to offend anyone.
~Fleur
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Fleur, you took the words right out of my mouth, just with much, much better explanation and much less fervour. I agree entirely. Weight loss and health in our society takes a great deal of trying and dedication, and I wouldn’t want to use those "miracle" drugs to take away the sense of accomplishment I will have once I achieve my healthy lifestyle the way I want it.
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BTW, losing 30 lbs in 30 days means having a 3500 calories deficit per day. That would be like not eating and running for 6 hours every day (assuming you burn 600 per hour when running) https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif . Sound too good to be true? It is!!!
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Anything that makes you lose weight that fast leaves you with a shit ton of skin.
My elasticity is excellent, but I’m not going to test it with something that rapid.I’d much rather lose the dreaded 1 lb a week and have my boobs keep up with their deflation than lose 30 lbs in a month and have saggy boob bags sitting on top of my saggy stomach bag, on top of my saggy pubic mound, on top of my saggy thighs. Can you hear my morbid fear of extra skin coming out? LOL
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More research:
I have been researching this like a mad woman last couple days… I found out that HCG is mainly used for fertility treatments and IS a FDA approved drug for fertility but not for weight loss, for fertility treatments they inject you with 10,000 IU (international units) once a month, pregnant females have over 720,000 IU/L (international units per liter?) of HCG in them, and for this HCG ‘diet’ they only inject 200 IU once a week. Non pregnant females and males have less than 5IU in them normally. HCG is also the horomone pregnancy tests look for to determine pregnancy.
Serious side effects of HCG for fertility (10,000 IU a month) include…
severe pelvic pain, swelling of the hands or legs, stomach pain and swelling, shortness of breath, weight gain (from eating too much I imagine, HCG with this diet you would be eating 500 calories a day), diarrhea, nausea or vomiting, or urinating less than normal.
Less serious side effects include…
headache, feeling restless or irritable, mild swelling or water weight gain, depression, breast tenderness or swelling, pain, swelling, or irritation where the injection is given.It seems pretty safe as long as your getting it from a reputable doctor, I wouldnt trust these order over the internet sites. They are less expensive because you need a prescription for HCG and since you are ordering online it isnt legally obligated to require one if you get them that way. Online just seems alot more unsafe, on some sites it says alot of HCG has been contaminated from places like China and India. I would rather pay the extra amount and go see an actual doctor than risk getting a contaminated batch from some online site. I couldn’t find any reliable sources of information for HCG for the diet because people just bash it and dont have any sources for their information so I looked it up for fertility instead and base my results off that since its the same drug but used in much smaller doses for the diet purpose. I imagine anyone who says they had a serious side effect such as …tumors in their throat? must of gotten a contaminated drug because you dont get those sort of side effects from using much higher doses in fertility treatments, at least not that I have come across yet. I dont know, it seems pretty risk free, i mean, your using a drug thats already been FDA approved, albeit for other purposes, in a much smaller dose than said other purpose, has little serious side effects (and thats in the fertility treatment dosage 10k IU a month compared to 200IU per week for diet, so far every HCG diet site claims there to be zero side effects), REALLY TRULY SEEMS TO WORK (even if its just the placebo effect!) and is extremely cheap (in comparison to other methods..gastric bypass, lipo, ect) and non invasive, if I had the money to drop on this I definitely would. The only ‘bad’ thing seems to be the extremely low calorie diet, so I quote this site:
"Another potential source of concern when following an HCG diet is the actual diet plan. In order to follow the HCG diet plan to its fullest, you are also supposed to maintain a diet of 500 calories per day. Although following a diet with such a small amount of calories would normally be considered unhealthy, it is safe to do while also receiving HCG diet injections. This is because HCG helps prevent the loss of muscle mass. It also helps dieters retain a high level of energy while suppressing the appetite. Therefore, while it generally would not be considered safe to follow a diet with so few calories, doing so while also receiving the HCG injection is both safe and effective as a weight loss strategy." http://hcgdietinfo.com/articles/2009/04/24/side-effects-associated-with-hcg-diet-shots/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
site for side effects: http://www.drugs.com/hcg.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and http://www.sharedjourney.com/define/hcg.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Everyone needs to make their own decisions when it comes to their diets but please don’t just take the word of the web site promoting the actual diet. Buyer beware…
Every doctor that I spoke to has said this is a dangerous diet. Any diet where you are NOT supposed to exercise (and that includes playing on the pole https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif ) and you are restricted to 500 calories a day is suspect. This *might* (and I say might not even really being sure) be something that if you are severely morbidly obese – might be worth it but otherwise I would avoid it like the plague.
Here is a link to a blog that has one persons – again just one persons experience on the diet.
http://fatlosschronicles.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-fat-loss-journey-begins.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and they did experience muscle loss as well as fat loss.
-again I am not saying it doesn’t work…but anytime you drop down to a 500 calorie a day diet you will lose weight – but not in a healthy way.
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