Mistake 3: Believing "it makes you go blind." Sudden vision loss (NAION) is a real but rare signal, it is absent in several large studies, and it is not confirmed to be caused by the drug (Liu 2025)
Wilmot EG, Edwardson CL, Achana FA, Davies MJ, Gorely T, Gray LJ, et al
This is likely why the long history of diet pills has been such a troubled one: from fatal hyperthermia observed with dinitrophenol in the 1930s to heart valve damage associated with fen-phen in the 1990s to increased risk of heart attack and stroke with sibutramine in the 2000s
One at a time, not all at once
Materials and methods Subject population Parents of patients seen from 20082011 in a medically based autism clinic were requested to consent to allow their childs medical information to be anonymously abstracted into a clinical database that contained medical history, physical examination findings and the results of neurological and metabolic testing