Contrave And Suboxone (Page 4) (Top voted first)

I started today with my first dose of contrave, 1 pill in the AM. I also take suboxone 8mg (4 1 time a day). My doctor stated that the interaction of the two should be minimal..yeah NO! I got diarrhea, hot flashes, chills, body aches, and pretty much every withdrawal symptom known to man. I now dont want to take the contrave because I am not ready to stop the suboxone. Should I just stop the contrave and continue the sub? Or how should I go about this?

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Re: Dweeb (# 10)

The dosing says ten days off subs then wait three days on contrave and u may re introduce suboxone without withdrawal symptoms.

How's this work? And why don't we lose weight on suboxone tablets?

Is there any medication to help with weight loss when body mass index is obese and patient is on some form of suboxone sublingual?

I'm legit searching to change my quality of life for quantity of life before I kill myself with this weight. Morbid obesity was on my mothers death cert. I don't want it on mine.

What's to be done for persons like me who need medication guided weight loss?

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Re: Kevin (# 12)

Read the patient insert people. It clearly say 10 days off subs. 3 days after onset of contrave reintroduce suboxone. With little to to no side effect of withdrawal. I read this in two different places as I read problems that could arise... as well as clinical responses in the Q and A.

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Re: Kbear (# 19)

Have you ever been on a stimulant before? They can make you feel weird. If the "high" isn't your cup of tea. I'd say firstly talk with PCP and decide if side effect has pros and cons (ie. I feel wierd but I'm getting skinny). Which ya wanna live with? Pick ya battles. Personally when I'm on a stimulant, I plan my day out to be active and productive doing things I'd maybe put off for years... Cleaning, culling, having garage sale, etc. etc. Savy?

I can not stand the way I feel on a stimulant as its packing or as its crashing me if I'm docile. I have to be involved in some activity. To use the energy up. Usually persons with severe anxiety who take tow or three different meds that treat anxiety (as u do) aren't on the norm prescribed a stimulant. Period. Visavié the anxiety disorder to begin with... makes perfectly good sense to me. Possibly it is a medication you should even be on due to your anxiety disorder. But please. I'm not a doctor. Speak to your PCP about all of this before u make any real decisions

Hope this helps u somehow.

They make it so hard on us and for us. We have to be our own best advocate and we have to know wtf they are giving us. And why. We have to be informed. I'll never understand a person who blindly takes anything or everything the primary care doc says to take without pause to find out what said med is what its for what it's doing to you. Do I need it? Is it killing me? What will kill me if I take this with that... Yeah.

Can't be uninformed anymore and pass the buck saying I didn't know too much info available now and too many advocates to help those who can't help themselves. Jeez I went on like freight train. Sorry this is so long. I do feel it was all relevant. Hell. Everything is relevant.

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Re: Sandra (# 5)

Get on welbutrin

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Re: Susie (# 6)

There not the same ie do not mix Suboxone with contrave, it's has 1mg of naloxone a opiate antagonist and will serious with drawal.

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Re: Susie (# 6)

They are not the same Bupropion is Wellbutrin which is not found in suboxone.

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Re: Dweeb (# 56)

I’m so glad you are on the thread, I swear I have read all 4 pages; every single time I am thinking “What?! Oh dear, some of these poor people are so badly misinformed.”… or “What?! Why is this person trying to inform people when they themselves aren’t correctly and fully informed”, there you are to answer or correct with the PROPER medical terminology and information! So THANK YOU!! People who don’t know should not pretend to and advise others, especially on medication interactions. **Yes, I realize my previous reply looks like a 12 year old typed it bc I accidentally hit “submit” before I went back to proof and correct misspellings I knew I made as I was typing quickly w the intention of returning to correct before submitting and looking like a DUMBA$$, but now I get to live with looking like a dummy, so there is that** Anyway, thanks again for correctly getting this information out there to help people who don’t quite understand.!

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Hi there. I wouldn’t take Contrave with Suboxone. I’m on 1 mg of Suboxone and I had very bad withdrawals. Contrave is not for everyone.

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Re: Dweeb (# 10)

Sounds like hell to me. I am prescribed naloxone/buprenorphine tablets. I would never take these 2 medications together. Sounds like people are just trying to get a double dose of their suboxone, not realizing what they going to go through. Us drug users do extensive research into what we are taking and no one is doing it by accident.

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Re: Kat (# 13)

One of the smartest replys I've read yet.

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Your dr sounds like a buffoon firstly how would he know that withdrawal from anything may be minimal he probley has read a text book secondly 8 is far to much sub to take a day it will do your head in besides depression anxiety and if you do need pain relief nothing will work for you. It's no wonder drug!!

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If I just tried one Contrave 1 time, how long do I wait before taking a Suboxone and not have to worry about withdrawals?

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Re: Jaz (# 76)

Omg same. When do the withdrawals go away?

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You more than likely gained weight because your eating food again (with a primary craving for carbs in the form of sugar if your a normal addict). Happens to be a positive side effect of having more rational drives on recovery.

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Hi, sorry for you problem but I do recall the commercial saying that Contrave and Opiods should not be taken together.
Hope you get better, the reason I know this is I've taken Suboxone for a few years and I Just found out that it's Now being used as a weight loss supplement. Go figure . . . Good Luck -Kelly

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Suboxone contains two medicines, both the naltrexone (in the form of naloxone) and importantly Buprenorphine, a partially synthetic opioid antagonist. This binds to opioid receptors along with the naloxone to provide the relief from withdrawal symptoms. While the naltrexone (naloxone) will not allow a full-opioid antagonist on the receptor, it will allow Buprenorphine...this is how it helps both relieve symptoms of withdrawal and prevents usage.

Taking the naltrexone alone would push all the opioid receptors clear of any antagonist all at once... Instead of a gradual withdrawal, the person would go into a series of acute withdrawal. As with taking the naltrexone and then taking full-opioid antagonist.

Ask any opiate patient who has been brought back with naloxone how they felt...not good.

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Re: Big country (# 32)

Omg! I did this yesterday around 11am. I ran out of Wellbutrin and thought I would take contrave instead since it has Wellbutrin in it-i take 16 mg suboxone strips daily. Bad idea! Had seizures all day long (have never had a seizure in my life) terrifying. Sooooo sick. Still feel pretty crappy. I did take 16 mg of suboxone at 3pm and it helped a little. Still feel terrible today but much better than yesterday. Went ahead and took my regular dose of sub this am at 5. Please pay attention this is so dangerous!

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Re: Ang (# 43)

I wish people would stop saying that they are not the same meds. The bottom line is that they come from the same FAMILY. They would never have been able to make one w/o the other. They come from the same FAMILY of drugs. They are just in different forms of the same derivative, meaning they would have never come to the conclusion to put a form of this medication in a DIET PILL. Hell if that's the case, why don't they just hand out Methadone to people who are struggling with weight issues. Suboxone is the DEVIL. These People think it's ok to give someone something that's not been studied long enough. Truth is that Vicodin / Hydrocodone are WAY better for you. They are 2 drugs in them that we have known about for 100yrs. But now they keep saying the opioid epidemic is way outta control. People, it's outta control because of ALL these Dr.s who were told it was ok to prescribe pain meds to those who Really Need it. NOT....the reason the opioid epidemic is on the rise is because people can't get their meds they've been taking for YEARS, so guess what now they are turning to illicit drugs, etc.. I want to know how they can compare people who OD on illicit drugs, to the person who goes to the Dr. monthly and gets their prescriptions legally. That doesn't seem fair to the people who actually take their medication as directed.

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I'm on vivitrol (naloxone injection) I got it too soon one time years ago after about a week off sub's...worst withdrawal ever...sent me to the hospital, was sick for three days straight...come to find out I could've sued...yeah buprenorphine is an opioid...naloxone is an opioid antagonist... It's literally ripping the bupe off your opioid receptors causing w/d...good luck.

You have a legal case on your hands...go to the hospital, get it documented and lawyer up.

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Yes because subutex does not contain naloexone. May be misspelled. It is minus the opioids blocker Suboxone contains

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