At 5mg, the usual and expected side effects of nausea and diarrhe...

At 5mg, the usual and expected side effects of nausea and diarrhea, which were worse if eating carbs. Those side effects were not that bad, and I lost 6 pounds during the month I was on the medication. I then was increased to 10 mg. That was when I started experiencing problems. Incapacitating abdominal pain and profuse diarrhea which would last for about 2-3 hours, and hit me in the middle of the night every night I was on the medication. I also had *very* intense carb cravings and a compulsion to eat and just couldn't stop eating. My doctor took me off it after a week of this, and said that he had heard of the increased appetite and carb craving before. In one week, I gained back the 6 pounds I had lost the month before.