I took the Alli pill for 4 months.  The first week, I lost four pounds, after that nothing.  I discontinued the use because it was doing nothing for me, and I didn't want to have to worry about 'treatment effects'.

Even after I stopped using them, I still had the treatment effects.  I was reading that on one of the message boards, and someone said it isn't from Alli.  My question is then, why do we all have the same symtoms after quitting?

 I'm curious to know how much weight you had to lose when you started Alli ?  If you lost "nothing" after the first week did you change things around any?   Were you meeting your calorie & fat gram count per day?  Were you drinking your liquids - exercising? 

Hi Rio1936,

There are many people on here who have stopped taking alli and did not experience any treatment effects so not everyone is experiencing this. I would love to help you, but need to know a bit more about what you are experiencing. What exactly is happening to you? Diarrhea is not the same as excreting oil so if you are having a problem with your bowel movements that is not from alli. You can check-in on the pharmacists board if you want to hear from the experts about how long alli is in your system and what happens once you stop taking it.

Betty Kovacs, MS, RD

I took alli for about 2 months with weight gain/loss/gain/loss, etc.... little to no over-all weight loss.  I did have some oil in my bowel movements on alli, and after stopping, I was back to my old constipated self.