honestly man i think the glp-1 craze basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room for stuff like phendimetrazine. why take a stimulant that makes you jittery and only works for a few weeks when people are seeing massive results on tirz or reta? i remember those tampa clinics too lol- it was like the wild west of weight loss back then. but yeah it's definitely a schedule 3 drug so doctors are way more stingy with it now compared to the newer peptides that aren't stimulants.

i think the short-term thing is what killed it for most people. you can only stay on it for like 12 weeks before it stops working or you get too cracked out whereas you can stay on things like reta for a year. plus that "phendi" crash is absolutely no joke man- i remember feeling like a total zombie the second i stopped. everyone just moved on to the stuff that doesn't make your heart feel like it's gonna explode!

it is still around but man it feels like a "legacy" drug at this point lol. it's way cheaper than the new stuff if you don't have insurance but i think the side effects just scared a lot of people off. i used it back in the day and the dry mouth was so bad i felt like i was swallowing sand all day. i'll take the minor nausea from a glp over the phendi jitters any day of the week!

funny you mention tampa cuz that place was literally the capital of phendimetrazine clinics for a minute there. i think a lot of those places either got shut down or just switched over to selling semaglutide because that’s where the money is now. it definitely worked for a quick blast but for long term maintenance it’s just not practical compared to what we have now.