I have bought Xenadrine EFX yesterday, and this morning I took my first dose. I was hungry, but it said take before breakfast, which I did, then 30 minutes later, I can't even eat breakfast. I do feel a bit nausea, but when I think about eating I feel more sick.

I took 2 of the ephedra-free pills. And after about 30 I started to feel warm and feel quite jittery. Yes, I do know that, although it's ephedra-free, it still has "bitter orange" which comes close, but way not as harmful as ephedrine, so please no lectures about that.

It's now 6:50 am, I took it at about 5:30. I'm not as jittery anymore, but I feel cold and I got some diaarea. (Sorry for the misspelling.)

My question is for people who have tried xenadrine efx.
What dosage do you take and have you experienced side effects? Did anybody have problems eating, and or nausea?

I guess I should try taking only one and let my body get adjusted to it, right?

Also, I have been taking Metabolite for the last 2 weeks, and in the beginning one made me jittery, but lately I took 2 in the morning/lunchtime/late afternoon and had no side effects anymore.

But I thought I should quit Metabolite anyway and try something without ephedra.

So just to make it clear, I only take the Xen EFX now, and nothing else.

Please share your experience! :)

hey augi...

yes, i take efx. i too felt a little jittery when i started taking. may i suggest you start with one in the morning and one in the afternoon. two, in the morning, on the first day is too much. Also, definately eat with it. Take it with b/fast. not so much, before. it will still curb your appetite! (im currently fasting on a protein shake and have decided not to take it while i'm doing that b/c its just bad w/out food! makes me sick too w/out food!)
Try that and see how it goes. the jittery-ness does wear off. try this for the first week. and yes, loose stools do occur.

good luck!

thanks dietqueen! I was actually hoping that you reply, because I remember you posting that you take xen efx.
Yeah, I'm gonna take 1 morning/1 afternoon.

And yes, no wonder I felt like I'm on crack or something when I took 2 on an empty stomach...

Do you think I should take another one in the afternoon? Wonder if a 2-4-6-8 diet would be ok to do while one is on it.

i think today you should skip the one in the afternoon...let your body adjust a little. start that off tomorrow.

Thanks again. I'll follow your advice and won't take one later. I still feel the effect of them a little bit, 3 hrs later.

I hope I can get some sleep soon, because I got up at 2am this morning, to drive my husband to work, and then I took the Xen EFX at 5:30am and now at 8:30am I'm still up, but tired. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/yawn.gif

Hah, guess I should have slept first and then take the pills... http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

yea, the first time i took it, i took my afternoon one at around 7! duh!!!!!! could NOT sleep that night!

good luck! get some rest! :(

Hi,

I hope that you do feel better now. I take Xen EFX too, but my result is a little confusing... weight drop a little 1st week but came back up again the mid 3rd week... maybe i did something wrong too.

heehee... see sometimes i take 3 sometimes 2 per day depending IF i remember!

I did not feel any side effects after my first day, and that was just slight nausea, that didn't last though. Anyhow, i'm still trying... and good luck to you too !

My sister in law took some and she got sick from them. She took them back to the health food store.

Hey augi! just checkin in...

how are you doing with it?

Hi there!
Well, on Monday - my first day on Xen EFX - The scale showed 270 lbs in the morning, at 2 pm it was 267. I drank a lot, way more than usually, but I'm pretty sure it was all water loss. (With those pills you need a lot of water, they are SO huge!)
I acted like a zombie, wasn't able to go to sleep until 5pm. Took a 2hr nap.
Yesterday, I only took one pill at first, but then an hour later I took another one, because I didn't feel jittery at all, and thought this dose is probably not doing anything.

So in the end I did take another 2 later on, but never got jittery. I think this is so weird, because of what happened on day one. I can't have gotten used to it already?!? And yesterday, I was extremely hungry and it didn't seem to curb my appetite. :( I pigged out big time, had a huge bowl of pasta. :(

So today, on Day 3, scale back at 269. I had 2 metabolite at 7am. Maybe I need the ephedra to lose weight, since I got so much to lose? It's almost 9am now, and I feel like taking some of the XenEFX. I wonder if you can take both. I don't want to get a heart attack or something. Hah, don't want to be a guinea pig either. ;) - Since I couldn't find any info, on taking both, online.

Oh, I did a search on "synephrine", one of the ingredients of the EFX version and there was some pretty interesting stuff. Explains the jitters.

Well, I'm a little confused now. Should I continue with the EFX, and give it some time to see if it works, or continue with the metabolite, with ephdra.
What do you think?

well, personally i am very against ephedra so i might not be the one to ask that. i definately dont think you should combine them. pick one and stick to it for a while to see how it works for you.

the reason you may have been able to take the normal dose of efx w/out jitters is b/c you ate right? the first day you didnt. right?

imo, you should give efx a chance.

Very true, when I ate I had no jitters at all. I was thinking, if there are no jitters, it probably stopped working.
Guess if I can't see it, I don't believe it.

Today I'm gonna only drink water, and flush all the bad stuff out. I feel so heavy and stuffed from the carbs.

I'll finish the XenEFX and then see what happened. I know 2 days is too short, I'm such an impatienced person. That's why I'm happy I found this board, because I have nobody else to talk to about this, and then easily give up... :mad:

I have read something interessting, don't know if it's true, but a lot of websites keep mentioning it.
They say, that if you take Ephedra you prohibit "true" ketosis. (Did a search on ketosis ephedrine) So that's not cool at all. :(

Again thank you for so much help and support! :D

ive got xenadrine rfa-1 do they work they should arrive within the next 1-2 weeks and do they come with full instructions

They should come with instructions on the bottle.
With the EFX-kind you are only supposed to take 4 in a day, don't know about the RFA.

Just wanted to pop a few words of wisdom from my personal experiences up here.
First of all, I recommend anyone who hasnt used fat burners of any kind to start out with 1 tab at breakfast time and go from there. Peoples bodies react differently and you dont want to over do it. Also, throwing your body into the intensity of full dosage can be very harmful.
Second- Please dont take Xenedrine with Metabolife, the results could be scary there as well.
Lastly, True results take time, you cant rush it or it will be back in a few months.

I dont mean to come on the board and sound like a know it all. I never post on these boards just browse but i was a tad worried after reading some things here and wanted to share my thoughts. Ive used alot of fat burners and in my opinion they do work, if used properly, along with exercise and proper eatting habits.
Be safe all.

Clan

So true clan. I agree with you completely. You're not a 'know it all' :) We welcome positive wisdom! :)
Post more often, its fun :)

Well this is my very first post so hi ya all. I started a lowfat diet and exercise program (the firm) in August. By November I had lost 30lbs. December was a wright off but I was back in the saddle in January. The weight is not coming off like it did so about three weeks ago I started EFX.

It made me sick the first day only and now I feel nothing from it. I am not sure it is helping me a whole lot and I wonder if I should stick it out or am I wasting my money.

I think I decided to post because I need some support. I am working my guts out but I am not getting the results I want and I am feeling very discouraged today. I am currently 220lbs so I have a long way to go. Help!!!

ah,yes...that wonderful ol' plataeu! Fear not mommy! we've all been there! drink, drink, drink that water and keep on movin! you will get there.

welcome, btw! :)

I started taking Xenadrine a week ago and I does help. I started taking it because my diet/exercise program has pretty much plateud. I work out 4 times a week and I eat a pretty healthy diet. The problem for me is the weekends. I like to have a few beers on the weekends as well as less healthy food such as pizza and such. Once the work week starts I am back to my diet. Anyway, I have noticed that my workouts are much, much better. I have a lot more energy. I started taking only 2 pille/day....one in the morning and one with lunch. I don't thinkI will bump up to the 4 pill/day dosage. The important thing to remember is that this is not a "magiz pill" to turn you into a fitness buff. I think you must combine it with a decent diet and exercise. It has curbed my appetite and I do get light headaches or "pressure" on my sinuses, but I deal with it. I plan to "cycle off" this product once I drop 20 lbs and only take one pill right before I work out. good luck with it....

I started taking Xenadrine a week ago and I does help. I started taking it because my diet/exercise program has pretty much plateud. I work out 4 times a week and I eat a pretty healthy diet. The problem for me is the weekends. I like to have a few beers on the weekends as well as less healthy food such as pizza and such. Once the work week starts I am back to my diet. Anyway, I have noticed that my workouts are much, much better. I have a lot more energy. I started taking only 2 pille/day....one in the morning and one with lunch. I don't thinkI will bump up to the 4 pill/day dosage. The important thing to remember is that this is not a "magiz pill" to turn you into a fitness buff. I think you must combine it with a decent diet and exercise. It has curbed my appetite and I do get light headaches or "pressure" on my sinuses, but I deal with it. I plan to "cycle off" this product once I drop 20 lbs and only take one pill right before I work out. good luck with it....

um Ive been taking it for about two weeks, started with half the dose at first because im 135 and im 16. I was ok for awhile it was curbing my appitite and i was seeing results. then it stopped for a while working so i went to days without any and started again. Yesturday I had a panic attack, the first one, everything has been difficult, but my mom believes its the caffine in the pills thats triggered it. I havent been eating much at all latly cause i feel like the pills arent working again. the panic attack was scary. I can put up with the crazy way i cant breath with it, but my chest felt convulsions, and i felt like i was going to have a seziure. I think my mom wants to blame it on the pills, so i dont know if its just a serious proble i may have developed. both my mom and older sister suffer from panic attacks, but i never hear of anyone else having this problem from the xenadrine efx. my question is, do you think the pills could rele be the cause of it all?

Hi, y'all! just tought I put in my two cents... I used X-EFX a while back and it did help me loose 40 lbs. I hit a plateau, stopped the pills and did coconut oil for a while. It worked for 5 lbs. more but I also stoped because my face was breaking out. So, I am back on X-NRG this time. I do recommend starting off with ONE pill. I can't handle two at the same time so I do one in the am (yeah, with food!) and one around 2 or 3pm. Oh, and give it time...It took me around three months...Good luck!

Going for the last 20!

A.

Also ONE LOVE... you're too young for the pills. Read the label!!! You need to be 18! Your body is still developing, try it the old fashion way for a while...

I've just started taking this so I can't really tell you what to expect. However - since you are 16, I would highly recommend talking to your doctor first. Your body may not be able to handle the chemicals in this medicine at this point - also, make sure you read the warning labels on any medicine!

*Reese