Contrave And Suboxone
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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: Jaz (# 76)

Omg same. When do the withdrawals go away?

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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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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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Re: Kat (# 13)

One of the smartest replys I've read yet.

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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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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 (# 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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Re: Dweeb (# 10)

I’m glad someone finally said this! I ended up here bc I was curious if I could take Contrave as I am already on Suboxone and am not at a place of getting off of it yet. The first thing I noticed was the medications combined in Contrave (naltrexone/bupropion) were very similar BUT still NOT the same as the medication combination in Suboxone (Naloxone/Bupronorphine). So I wanted to research the difference before going any further. After looking up both medications used in Contrave I grew more concerned about the possible contradictions in the two taken together. So I search using Contrave with Suboxone and was brought here. I was reading all the comments yet thinking, but they are NOT the same ingredients in both. Why is everyone saying that? So I was glad to come across your comment. Thank you for being diligent and paying attention to detail so you can help inform people and hopefully keep many others from making the not so difficult to make mistake of seeing those ingredient names and thinking “oh it’s the same as Suboxone” when in fact a few letters changed in each make all the difference in the world. Also, as precipitated withdrawals are the WORST experience I’ve ever been through. So much more intense and painful than the already immensely horrible regular opioid withdrawal. Thanks again for being the one to point out this difference for people!

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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: 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: Sandra (# 5)

Get on welbutrin

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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: 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: 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: Di (# 8)

Exactly! Same thing here. I started filling out the info to order this and than I noticed that the bupropion was in it and the naltrexone. And than saw where it said that it was the same ingredients as in suboxone I could not imagine how this could be a weight loss pill. I have been on suboxone for year and have gained weight, never would I imagine that they would be calling this the new weight loss pill ! It definitely does not curb your appetite, Something does not jive here

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Re: Kevin (# 12)
Subutex is buprenorphine alone. Suboxone is buprenorphine with naloxone. Buprenorphine is an opiate. So if you take Contrave you will go into withdrawal because the naltrexone in the Contrave will block the opioid receptors in your body and the buprenorphine in your Subutex will not be absorbed.

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I took contrave and it does cause hot flashes and diarrhea. So tht could just b the contrave.

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Re: Big country (# 32)

The same thing just happened to me. What should I do?

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I had been on oxy80, oxy 6p+10 separate pill to not move me all the way up, then on top of that I had roxy 30 to take 4 x a
Day, soma, Valium, as much of us know our script would never last the month and begins to control younevery thought / on you your Ming 24/7. The best thing I did was suboxone I took it for 6 months 4x a day the I went to subutex (cheaper) I have been in it for 4 years. I was a bad addict for 7 yeats and it didn’t start tht way it’s sneakt........ strongly suggest no more pain pills from the doct. Suboxone was the best thing ever!!! Well 2 years ago I got shot point plank in face, blew my jaw to Peices 8momths to recovery, doctor put me on everything before plus feyntenol I was scared to ge off again but I did it!!!! Now I take honestly 3 suboxone once a week, my doctor things I’m doing 4 a day..., but the problem I started contravene today first pill I have been off subutex for roughly 7 days and I have never had withdraw like this in years I just wanted to end it as before when the pain was s to much and not bing stopped it. My question I was off subtex for 7 days and still fell this way that’s a problem. And if I ban man up and deal for a few days how long is a typical withdrawal system take I want off everything but would love to lose weight. Score I complimented that mission..... 3-5 days kind oh standard

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Re: Missy (# 60)

The active ingredient in contrave is naltrexone and bupropion. The active ingredient in Wellbutrin is bupropion and Wellbutrin’s generic name is bupropion hcl. So, yep!

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