Was looking at getting some of these on ebay as I just want to lose a few pounds and as im in a healthy bmi the pharmacy wouldnt sell them to me. Anyway they where quite a few on ebay and I put a few on my watched items. bUt the next day.. they where all gone!None on my watched items and none being listed. The auctions cant have ended otherwise it would have said s they where in my watched items!Has ebay banned them maybe??

It would be forbidden to be sold on Ebay under this:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policie...criptions.html

While you don't need a prescription you do need a pharmacist to be happy to sell it to you - as you found out.

If you are at a healthy bmi then just do some exercise to lose the few pounds and tome up. Alli is not some miracle drug, you still need to use it as part of a calorie controlled diet and regular exercise.

Ahh thanks for that. Yeah I know its not a miracle diet..really I just want it as just something in the back of my mind to stop reaching for the crisps or chips as I know I wont be fond of the side effects!!

I wouldn't reccomend to Alli pills anyway, and especially not because you haven't been prescribed them.

Two things really I've lost weight recently by cutting out bread and potatoes. I have rivita (original) instead of bread.

Secondly those Alli tablets you have to be extremely careful taking them as if you "go over" your fat intake they can cause you to need to change your trousers almost immediately. As the other poster said stick with the exercise - and a healthy diet. I heard that having one glass of wine was equal to eating a chicken kebab -

i never had any of those nasty side effects ya often hear about with the alli whilst i was on them

however a couple of months later i started gettin atrotious pains below my chest bone going into back and vommitting every time i ate

turns out iv got bloody gallstones seriously worst 6 months r so of my life... also, one of the stones came out and got stuck in bile duct causin me to get pancretitus aswel NOT a nice experience lol waitin on gettin gallbladder removed next month

im not sayin the alli pill deffo caused the stones but never had any probs before i started taking it and the alli effects the way your fat is absorbed which is obv gonna effect ur gallbladder in some way so ya hafta b suspicious realli.......

sayin that i was also on slimfast at same time as the alli so could have been either realli ill never know

so yeh i wudnt realli reccommend it iv act lost more weight on my 'gallstone diet' aka i cant reali eat much without gettin attaks so really shows me i should have done it in the natural way in first place lol

Browsing through the threads I was interested to read of your experience. I'm not medically qualified to comment, but I lived with gallstones for a long and painful spell and researched quite a lot about it at the time. I have seen Alli advertised on TV but all I know about it is that it causes fat to pass through your digestive system without being absorbed. For fat to be absorbed it needs to be broken down by bile, made in the bile ducts connected to the liver and stored in the gall bladder. I'm guessing that for Alli to work it must be a bile suppressant in some way ? So maybe this meant that instead of the gall bladder being regularily emptied , the signal to do this was supressed, so stored bile in your gall bladder went stagnant and started an inflammation or infection. (Gallstones are caused by bile which has gone stagnant and calcified into hard stones.)

When you eat fat, the gallbladder squeezes to push bile into the intestine to digest it. This pushing action can cause stones to be squeezed into the duct which gets blocked You have my every sympathy, I know how painful this can be !

The good news is that after your operation all those nights of pain and sickness will vanish. I had keyhole surgery and when I woke up they gave me the gallstones in a little specimen jar as a keepsake (!) I thought they would be like grains of sand or apple pips, but some were as big as grapes ! Lol, imagine trying to squeeze a grape through a drinking straw and that will give you a handle on where your pain is coming from....

I have digressed a bit from what I was going to say at the start, which is that if you have a gallstone problem to begin with, then Alli might compound that. But if your gall bladder is normal then you are unlikely to experience the severe problems the poster had.

On a plus note I must say that when I had the gallbladder problem I had to cut out as much fat as possible from my diet as fat=gallbladder contractions=pain. It was probably one of the best dietary wise-up's i have had. Over the space of 6 or 7 years I cut out all the butter, cheese, mayo, bacon, chips etc etc. I HAD to do it, but TBH it wasn't that hard once you got focussed. I've come to the conclusion that its better not to put it in your body at all, than to put it in your body and then take a drug to get rid of it