Contrave And Vomiting (Page 2)

I have been on Contrave for 3 months. I have battled nausea all along, hoping it would go away. I've lost 15 pounds. The pill seems to make everything taste bad. Coffee, spicy food, even just scrambled eggs taste bitter and gritty. I didn't have any other side effect. This past week, the nausea has moved on to vomiting. I've used Tumms and Dramamine as well as a prescription anti nausea med on and off for all three months. I truly feel poisoned. I feel ridiculous that I have used this knowingly for 3 months and endured feeling sick. I've spent a lot of money and feel terrible even a week after stopping the drug. Please don't take this. I feel that fairly soon enough folks will complain enough to take it off of the market.

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I ended up having to go off of this pill. The headaches were UNBELIEVABLE. I was popping migraine excederen, aleve and ibuprofin constantly. My teeth were also hurting and so sensitive on this. As soon as it got out of my system (three days) i was back to normal.

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Re: David (# 3)

I agree! I too have suffered from the stomachy/ nausea & cramping side effects & found it is FAR more exacerbated after I stupidly eat something too fatty - lesson learned... smaller, heaththier choices thru the day works better for me.

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Re: Margo (# 20)

Everyone’s different and reacts to meds differently. Just because you had an adverse reaction to Contrave doesn’t mean everyone will and that it she be taken off the market. There’s always a risk of an adverse event from a drug. You should read the product insert you’d see that the FDA is willing to accept some risk if the there is a tangible benefit. Vomiting and nausea are generally benign and so is fatigue and not a justification to remove a drug from the market especially if it is helping people lose weight. The benefit of even moderate weight loss has a high impact on Quality of Life and metabolic disease like T2 diabetes, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia etc. Nausea and vomiting are no doubt uncomfortable but typically transient side effects however getting dialysis 12h/week forever for renal failure from uncontrolled diabetes is far worse. BTW I don’t work for the company that makes it nor do I prescribe it.

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I found it very helpful to take with a 1/2 slice of bread or a cracker or two and some protein like chicken breast or such. I "sandwich" the pills: I eat the bread and a little protein or just the bread and protean alone drink some water, take the pill and drink the 12-16ozs of water and then eat the rest of the bread and chicken. I had tried an avaocado toast and that did not work well because of the fat in the avo. Eggs and toast seem to be good but honestly it's the combination of the bread/cracker and a protein that works for me with lots of water.
And most importantly - DRINK WATER. not soda or high sugar juices. 12-16 ozs when you take it and thereafter drink water. I find this method has cut down on the uncomfortable feelings like nauseau and headaches.

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Re: Teri (# 11)

No don’t try again because I lost 54lbs. On contrave I gain all my weight back so my doctor gave it back to me again and the 2nd week I was vomiting so bad that I couldn’t work or lift my head up please don’t take it again your body will reject it

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