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August 18 2006

Pills that drive Thai women crazy

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A heart attack at the age of 24 prompted a Thai ex-girlfriend to throw away her diet pills. She's lucky to be alive - but her story is by no means unusual. If she talks incessantly, loses her appetite and lurches wildly between euphoria and despair, your Thai girlfriend is probably taking them too.

All over Thailand, countless poorly regulated beauty clinics dish out amphetamine-like diet pills to any woman willing to pay for them. The, often unlabelled, drugs are dispensed in strengths described as ranging from one to ten but impatient Thai women hell-bent on losing weight with minimal effort often choose the strongest and most dangerous. Many also exceed the stated dose in the mistaken belief that if one pill is good, two pills are better.

Seeking a quick fix to the effects of a self-indulgent lifestyle, Thai girls with farang boyfriends are more likely than most to get hooked. Go-go dancers in particular tend to fill out pretty quickly when kindly patrons remove them from their natural chrome pole habitat and deposit them in front of the TV.

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The risk of sudden death is well known to Thai women - and completely ignored - but the most insidious side-effect of the pills is the alarming personality change that's obvious to everyone except the sufferer. Serious bust-ups are almost inevitable when our pill-popping plumper starts to act like a meth-head.

A chum enjoys the services of the world's best maid but his diet-pill crazed Thai girlfriend fired her after finding a speck of dust under the sofa. Shortly afterwards, she accusing his driver of stealing and fired him too. Having dismissed the entire household, she then walked out herself the following day.

Of course, once the pills had worn off, she came crawling back (as they always do) and my friend was kind enough to forgive her. The maid was reemployed but, as it turns out, the driver really was a thief - which brings to mind the old adage that you're not paranoid if someone's out to get you.

At a recent dinner party, I ran into yet another respectable Thai woman who was on diet pills. She used to be a real class act but the drugs had made her brash and insensitive. Her stylish outfits had been replaced by bargirl gear and she proceeded to make a spectacle of herself by moving in on her best friend's partner.

Needless to say, she won't be receiving any more party invitations until she straightens herself out.

It was nice to see that she'd lost a few pounds, though.

[Posted to Relationships by David]

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Readers' comments

Wifey B says:

Yeah that takes me back a year. "What are those for sweet heart?". "For my tummy honey"... cut to ten minutes later and WHACK!! Hell hath no fury like a pill popping bar girl scorned!

Mr Thaksin, bangkokchat.org says:

fux me!!!!!!!!
what happened to the simple good old Yaba pill ?????

those were the dayssssssss my friend.

Thako.

Dana says:

"Go-go dancers in particular tend to fill out pretty quickly when kindly patrons remove them from their natural chrome pole habitat and deposit them in front of the TV."

Well, there is no reason to pick on Thai women; the propensity of women to pack on weight with years is one of the not-so-young-anymore man things that I have learned: and it is depressing. I inevitably fast forward the weight gain when eyeing a pretty girl and believe me it can take the blush off the bloom. So I am only eyeing young fit women now and I am less and less and less predisposed by anything remotely genetic or distinous to get involved in marriage. You marry her--she is going to get fat.

Curious says:

If they get charged up with these speed pills, doesn't that mean more energy in bed? Is this a good thing? Can you catch them at the right part of their cycle and get f*cked like an animal?

Or do they just act batsh*t crazy and worthless in bed? Comment on your experiences!

philH says:

This takes me back to my first live in "cultural attache". She was no oil painting (unless it was by Rolf Harris), a bit podgy but one of the most enthusiastic shags I've had.

Then she changed, and "people" were out to get her. First it was sitting up in bed chain smoking Krong Thip 90's all night (if that didn't give me lung cancer nothing will). But the final straw was her sleeping with the carving knife under the pillow. Fcuk that! Red card, you're off!

Never thought 'bout the tabs. Oh well you live and learn.

mike says:

Back in my youth the pill of choice was 'Captigon'...I don't know if I lost any weight, but I could drink till the Thermae turned the lights on...which back in the 80's coincided with the sun coming up.

Andrew C says:

I've noticed that you yourself have become a prolific poster, have you been hitting the slimfaster?

sniffer says:

Wild mood swings, temper tantrums, unpredictable and outrageous behaviour; how does this differ from any other Thai girl you know?

Bose says:

Using illegal weight loss pills is not very uncommon in other parts of the world as well. But what is so special about Thai women is their ingenuity in making things "fast and easy".

30 Paracetamol pills (7.5 grams) for PMS, or 20 Chlorpheniramine pills for a common cold are quite common, even within women carrying a degree in microbiology.

On the other hand, taking Folic Acid during pregnancy is uncommon, because it has no apparent effect. They also dislike their vitamins... maintaining a daily routine makes them feel "Ramkhan, Mai chob".

So, the easiest way to get rid of an infidel teeruk is to take her to a doctor for sleeping disorders, then sending her back to her parents before she takes her first pill.

Mr Thaksin, bangkokchat.org says:

Wonkers all wonkers.
I've been hooked on anti Viagra pills for yrs now.
Mine never goes down otherwise.

Thako.

Anonymous says:

Answer to Mr. Curious:

"If they get charged up with these speed pills, doesn't that mean more energy in bed? Is this a good thing? Can you catch them at the right part of their cycle and get f*cked like an animal?"

The two most extraordinary sex nights of my life were with a woman from the NEP. She kept initiating 'more' and 'more' and 'more' for hours. The third night I picked her up--nothing. Took me a year to figure out that the first two nights she had been on yaa baa. Hey, works for me. From now on I am very interested in sex partners on speed.

maltesenosher says:

ahhhhhh 'captigon and the original thermae!!!!!'; these youngsters don't know what they're missing do they 'mike'(i never knew they were diet pills and they never had that effect on me!)

Fat Falang says:

Hi,

What is the name of these diet pills? I dont want to take yaba, so i want to get these instead.

Hugh Jarse says:

The best known diet pill is Fukitol 1000mg, usually taken on the way down from a Pattaya highrise balcony.

But wait, that one is popular only with the punters and not with their teeraks!

Combover says:

I know them only as "blue & whites". About four or five should give you a buzz. The number of pharmacies willing to sell them is quite low these days.

I agree with Mike about the effect on one's drinking capacity. Unfortunately, extreme erectile disfunction is an additional unwanted side effect for me so it kind've spoils the fun in the end.

the yank says:

Funny, my buddy had a girl who I thought was on acid....

Turns out she was taking those diet pills. I made fun of her and her trippy ass attacked me. Finding this quite amusing I took her pills and made her chase me around walking street until she eventualy gave up and then started saying this every 2 minutes.. "fuk yu as howl" followed with a punch to my arm which actually hurt after the 100th time.

haha the memories

wahwah says:

Various forms of Amphetamine can function as a very poweful Aphrodisiac but tend to cause detumescence in the male

KF says:

I think I was married to the party girl you refer to,has to be the center of attention and move in on all the other ladies men.What a fool! "..the beauty of the diet pills."

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