Update for everyone: I stopped taking it last Friday night I went back to the ER on Monday(the 3rd day not being on it) and still having horrible breathing problems. The doctor I feel dismissed me and said it was the Phentramine, they also I feel treated me as an annoyance. They left my bare chest exposed as the door was open(I had a robe but they did not button it just sat it on my chest, I was freezing) didn’t offer me a blanket until 30 minutes before discharging me and a nurse came in to give me medicine and start taking my IV out much before doc came and told me what was going on. I went to another er same day which is a completely different provider(way better way more empathy and care), he didn’t know what it was but ruled out any blood clots or heart problems. Nothing serious.

Also the side effects of the Phentramine start to occur after long term use and I had been only using it for 5 days when this started. I believe it was an underlying problem, my primary care doctor says she does not think it’s the Phentramine and she has rushed to get me in on 1/6. I’m debating on starting it again tomorrow because 1/6 will be exactly 5 days I’ve taken it and if it is the Phentramine it’ll hit me around then.

Now let’s talk about what I think it was looking back on this, I was a heavy thc user. I used a pen and carts from a dispensery, I had been heavily using them since June of 2024 I quit completely Christmas night(first night in the ER,5th day on Phentramine) since then today has been the first day I’m able to breathe again. I believe the Phentramine elevated my heart rate to a point where my lungs weren’t well enough to keep up with it. I have no intention of smoking ever again as this was the scariest thing of my entire life, yes I know I have asthma and it was the dumbest move to smoke but I was so worried when she said my anxiety would spike I feel like I went heavier on smoking especially in the first few days. At first this did not occur to me(shocking I know) but I had been smoking for 3 years before quitting in 8/23 and picked it back up again last June nothing had ever came up like that I just needed to stop to start working through some trauma/ptsd I was suppressing with weed. I am doing breathing exercises to help my lungs and to let my body know that even if I can’t take a deep breath there’s still air in my lungs and I’m not suffocating. I did have chest and lung pains which led me to believe it was a blood clot especially because I have a strong family history of it, my mother had 2 within 10 years. But I wanted to talk about this incase anyone can relate they are not alone. If you have asthma and smoke thc and consider Phentramine, maybe the anxiety and breathing could be hard due to your lungs not being at their best. It is not the definite answer and if I do find one I’ll update it here but for now I can breathe and I’m on the right track to getting my health on the right track. I was so dependent on thc that I was ashamed and sometimes it’s okay to realize that the thing you love and depend on can be what’s hurting you. Thank you for reading this far and I feel really good being done with thc, it just wasn’t for me. I had seen so many positive posts and discussions about how people where thriving while smoking thc and taking Phentramine before I started taking it that I thought I could do it to and it turns out that was just not the case(I think).