Qnexa May Be New Diet Drug Sensation

Remember the Fen-Phen debacle? Well it seems that the one half of the Fen-Phen combo that wasn’t deemed to be the cause of apparent heart damage in some of the patients who were prescribed the infamous diet drug, is the new half of another new sensational diet drug that hasn’t hit market yet, but is still in clinical testing phases, called Qnexa.  So far the clinical trials of the drug have been promising as far as their implications in weight loss.

The tests have been done on about 750 patients, and of those, the ones that are on the higher doses of the Qnexa drug, which is a combination of the former diet half drug and the drug Topomax, have been demonstrated to consistently be losing more weight than their counterparts who are on a part-placebo and part drug combo.

The most common side effects of the potential new wonder drug for weight loss are the typical ones that are listed for most prescription diet drugs, which include but are not limited to dry mouth, constipation, loss of taste (foods tend not to taste as good on most effective diet drugs, that’s part of the idea I guess), and a new one to me, which is itching.

No comments on whether it causes irregular heart beats of rapid heart beat, which is a common side effect of many weight loss supplements since they contain stimulants that tend to have this effect.  We’ll keep you posted on where this diet drug is on the pike, and when it comes out, if it passes the FDA approval process.