Xenical (Slimming Tablets)

Debbie Delaney

I have been told these are no longer available on a medical card prescription. Does anyone know if this is true please?

biko

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=21016

A total of 41 drug and other products have been taken off the list of free medicines available to medical card patients as part of the HSE's controversial €130 million in savings measures.

The HSE hopes to save €6 milliion by cutting these products from free drug schemes.

The total list of products now deleted from State schemes is:
Glucosamine products:
Arithmel Tabs 500mg
Dona Caps 500mg
Dona Sachets 1500mg
Dona Pediatric for oral solution 1500mg sachets
Dona (PCO Mfg) Sachets 1500mg
Glucosamine (Pharma Nord) Caps 400mg
Osteoeze Tabs 625mg
Osteole Sachets 1500mg

Omega-3-triclyceride products:
Omacor Caps 1000mg
Omacor (Amimed) Caps 1000mg
Omacor (Imbat Ltd) Caps 1000mg

Orlistat (anti- drug- trade name Xenical)
Xenical Caps 120mg
Xenical (BR Lewis Pharmaceuticals) 120mg
Xenical (Clear Pharmacy) 120mg
Xenical (Doncaster Ltd) Caps 120 mg
Xenical (iMed Healthcare Ltd) Caps 120mg
Xenical (Lexon UK) Caps 120 mg
Xenical (PCOMfg.)Caps 120 mg

Debbie Delaney

Thanks for that Biko, that was a lot of help

xgtdec

aaahhhhh good ol Xenical, i actually have
Xenical to thank for the shape im in now, its not that they lost me weight....after 3 days on them i got eh..caught short....and decided then that diet and excersise where the way to go

WHIP IT!

Debbie Delaney wrote: »

I have been told these are no longer available on a medical card prescription. Does anyone know if this is true please?

Hang on, am I right in saying that, until recently, people with a medical card could get SLIMMING TABLETS free of charge??

xgtdec

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Hang on, am I right in saying that, until recently, people with a medical card could get SLIMMING TABLETS free of charge??

Indeed, although i dont have one and i had to pay for mine but yes you can charge the taxpayer for your weight loss...well...you could until now

g'em

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Hang on, am I right in saying that, until recently, people with a medical card could get SLIMMING TABLETS free of charge??

Used to annoy me too. Then I realised that a huge number of people who take these drugs have unfortunate side effects like poop-in-the-pants accidents. Fairly karmic really

WHIP IT!

g'em wrote: »

Used to annoy me too. Then I realised that a huge number of people who take these drugs have unfortunate side effects like poop-in-the-pants accidents. Fairly karmic really

"Barney's movie had heart - but 'Football in the Groin' had a football in the groin..."

The Guvnor

When a certain Prescription tablet came out, the leakage shall we say was well known.

Hence every order to the pharmacies was always accompanied by a few cases of tissues.

ebixa82

Debbie Delaney wrote: »

I have been told these are no longer available on a medical card prescription. Does anyone know if this is true please?

Xenical quite rightly is off the GMS

It's not a slimming pill as such. It comes in an 84 pack box, however if you eat a healthy meal you dont need to take it as it simply blocks the absorption of some of the fat in a meal. If you eat a fruit salad or salad it wont do anything as these dont contain fats.

So what happens when you eat a fatty meal? Well the undigested oily fats pass straight out. Unfortunately you hhave little control over this, and while you think you are letting rip a sneaky fart, your underpants are covered in a greasy, oily mess. It actually smells like oil and not faeces. Very messy.

I've heard of many people caught out, worst of all a cousin who wore a beige dress to a wedding and shat herself for all to see.

So it's more the fear of what might happen when you combine fatty food and these tablets that make people lose weight than anything else.

Xenical is only back on the market in the last month after about a year off it due to manufacturing issues. You can buy a half stregth form with prescription called Alli.

Both are expensive.

Moral of story. If you are fat and want to lose weight, don't be so lazy, eat healthy and exercise and don't make products that are likely to make you **** yourself with an oily mess!

Stench Blossoms

Slightly off-topic but does anyone know why the Omacor products are not longer available?

ebixa82

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Slightly off-topic but does anyone know why the Omacor products are not longer available?

Because Omacor are fish oils not a medicine.

If people want increased fish oils then improve their diet and supplement with an OTC product.

Same thing for Xenical, if you want to lose weight stop eating sh.ite.

I still can't believe people are getting Nicorette products on the medical card. If they want to stop then stop. If they want to die of smoking related disease, fcuk them.