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A 3x Daily Pill To Help You Lose Weight.
Contrave is a weight loss tablet that works in the brain to alter feelings of hunger and how your body spends energy. You’ll start off on a low dose of one tablet per day, and gradually increase this to two tablets twice a day over the first four weeks.
Contrave is a medicine that’s only available by prescription, so you’ll need to have a consultation with us about it before you use it.
Contrave weight loss tablets contain naltrexone and bupropion, and these work on the specific area of the brain that controls how much food you eat and how energy is spent. By affecting cravings for food, it makes it less likely you’ll overeat, which can lead to significant weight loss if you make adjustments to your lifestyle too.
The ingredient bupropion is also used in some antidepressant medications, as well as a popular stop smoking treatment called Zyban. So Contrave is quite different to the weight loss tablet Orlistat, which affects how much fat you take up from food.
Contrave has been shown to work well in clinical trials, and be even more effective when used alongside weight loss management counseling. In a study of people taking it over 56 weeks, there was an average weight loss of 5.4%, and an average weight loss of 8.1% in people who also had behavioral support. [1]
In a combined analysis of studies, up to 42% of people taking Contrave over 56 weeks lost at least 5% of their body weight, and up to 22% lost 10% of their body weight. [2] So it has proven to be effective for a sizable portion of people that take it.
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Read the instructions that come with the medication before you take Contrave. If there’s anything you aren’t sure about, let us know.
If you forget your Contrave dose, don’t worry – just take your next dose as normal and continue the course. Don’t take double the amount at your next dose, because this won’t have any benefit and increases the risk of side effects. If you’re having trouble remembering to take the medication, you might find it useful to set a daily reminder to take it at specific times, or take it with a specific meal each day.
If you’ve taken too much Contrave, you should seek immediate medical attention. Go to your nearest hospital and take your Contrave packaging with you if possible. Taking the tablets at the same time each day can help you to remember when to take your dose and can prevent from taking too much by accident.
There are some things you need to watch out for when taking Contrave, and not everyone can use it.
Here’s the official safety info. If there’s something you’re not sure about, let us know.
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Contrave is a safe treatment for the majority of people that use it. In a safety and tolerability review of weight loss medications, the majority of side effects associated with naltrexone and bupropion were transient meaning they only lasted for a short amount of time. [1]
But you should still read the safety info that comes with Contrave before you take it, and report anything unusual to a doctor.
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Some people who use Contrave may get side effects, as is the case with any medication. In some cases these might be mild or pass after a short time, but a minority of people may get more serious side effects.
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If you do develop serious side effects, such as an allergic reaction, get urgent help right away at your nearest hospital.
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Contrave shares some similarities with other treatments for weight loss. It’s a tablet, like Xenical, but works in a different way to this medication. Xenical, instead, works by preventing the body from digesting fat, which is eliminated without being fully processed by the body.
Like Saxenda, Contrave has an effect on appetite, but the way the medication is administered is quite different (Saxenda is an injection).
So which is better? It depends on a number of things: what you’ve used before, whether it was successful, and to an extent how much weight you need to lose and how quickly you want to lose it. Our clinicians can help discuss your weight loss goals with you before helping you settle on a treatment they think will work best for you.
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There isn’t a non-branded version of Contrave available currently, although the medication is known by different names overseas (in the UK, it’s called Mysimba).
The active components in Contrave are available in other medications. For example, Zyban, a stop smoking treatment, contains bupropion. But this isn’t suitable for use in weight loss.
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