Contrave - Help! Horrible Nausea and Headaches?

I’ve noticed that several people have mentioned Dramamine as a possible solution to the nausea side effect. This will not work. Dramamine will prevent nausea caused by motion sickness but will not treat drug-induced nausea.
Stay well hydrated and eat small, easily digestible meals. In the approval trials most nausea and vomiting subsided after 2 weeks; try to wait it out. You can try to drink ginger tea or take ginger capsules.

I’m on DAY 1. I vomited my breakfast up 2.5 hours after eating and taking one co trace pill. I had sweating that stopped after 2 hours, horrible dry mouth that stopped after 10 hours but slept for 6 hours after vomiting- had my dinner and still feel ill, dizzy and sick. I’m afraid to take a pill tomorrow.

I am on week three. Taking two in the morning is making me very nauseous- but one in afternoon is ok. Do u think I should back off - or how long does it take to adapt?

Contrave made me soooo sick -- the worst sickness I have ever felt!!! I have had some serious pain due to injuries and surgery etc., but NOTHING made me feel this bad as Contrave - OMG!!! After just taking one pill I was practically on the floor with severe headache (10x my normal migraines), uncontrollable dry heaving and vomiting, extreme dizziness (room spinning), the worst nausea I have ever experienced, and unable to sleep. I want to mention that I am in general good health and run about 20 miles a week. I am 25 lbs overweight so I was prescribed this crap to control my binge eating episodes. The worst part is I paid full price since my HMO would not cover it.

Is there anyway to get our money back? The Pharmacy does not give refunds due to policy so I am at a loss :(

Thanks!

I'm new to this forum and have found some very good tips for the nauseating/vomiting while taking Contrave and will get some Dramamine today. My question is does anyone take the adipex/phentermine along with the contrave? My Dr said that she wants to wein me off of the phentermine while taking the contrave so that my system will get acclimated to the contrave. I've been taking it two weeks now and have lost a total of 10 lbs but the nauseating feelings are driving me insane. I get car sick and I never get car sick.

I just started week 4 of contrave today. I always take my morning dose with food, evening dose I just take before bed. I haven't had any sleep problems, but do have nausea and headaches off and on. Also when I am eating a meal, the first few bites taste good and then they start making me queasy. Does anyone else have this? I haven't lost any weight yet. Anyone else have similar situation? When did you start to lose the weight?

I'm with you! It was crazy expensive for me to feeling like this. I've been on it for 6 weeks now. Have gotten great results. The nausea and headaches were terrible weeks 2&3 but came back worse this week. Ugh I feel like I'm pregnant all over again. I'm taking zofran every 6 hours and still feel like poop. Nausea for days is no bueno

I wish I had some answers. I'm a little upset with my doctor giving me an expensive prescription that I took one day and I cannot metabolize it well. I become soaked with perspiration on my face and neck and I never do that. I become very hot and flushed, dizzy, nauseated and it worries me. I can't work or function well for 70 days on these pills obviously. I read all the posts and everybody is becoming sick from the drug. Does anyone here know of another weight loss medication that actually works really well? It's too bad because Contrave really works but the side effects are so intense I can barely stand it. Good luck to everyone here working on it.

I am on 2nd week of contrave and now have eye pain and 2 like blisters on lids. Also headache on right side only . Want to stop but product working for now.

I'm curious if anyone has started this drug recently? I just started today. Been drinking lots of water, and making sure I eat something with Contrave. So far I just have the jitters. I didn't have a chance to work out today. So I think when I do that will subside. I'm having issues with sleeping tonight. That's why I'm here... So how often should I take the drenamin? Is this something I will have to take every night?
Thank you and good luck to all!!!

I have been taking contravene for almost 4 weeks. Because my eating issues are mostly at night, I take my pills in the afternoon and evening. I'm still at 2 pills a day. 3 makes me very sick. I wake up feeling sick most mornings. Less so if I don't eat too much the night before. Some mornings I have vomited. Although because nothing in my stomach, nothing comes out. Only other barely tolerable symptom is constipation. I drink a ton of water every day. Always have. Have never been constipated before. I hoping if I get the constipation under control that the nausea will stop as well.

I want to say to us all. Keep trying. It is a long process but worth the effort. Be proud and keep trying. We can all achieve our goals.

I have total empathy. The first two days of taking the medication, I was so miserable specially at night even I was taking it in the morning. The headache kept me in bed moaning out of pain. I used Bonnine Which helped so much. I couldn't make the headache go away.out of depression I started tapping. It did miracle. The headache ended in 30 seconds after tapping. I hope this can help.

I actually had to stop a few weeks in. It was the same for me. Felt like a stomach virus two weekends in a row. It was unbearable and not worth it in my opinion. My Dr. Switched me to Belviq. I'll see how that goes.

Omg thank you so much to all of you ladies for giving so much feedback I suffer from chronic migraines and my medication has made me put on a lot of weight so in addition I asked my doctor if there was anything that could help kickstart me to drop some of the weight I am two weeks in with contrave and until I saw these post I could not understand why my migraine medication was not helping and why I was feeling so nauseous lately when that's the one side effect I have never felt from my migraines I really thought that something else had gone horribly wrong, I am so grateful because I know exactly why I have been so miserable these past two weeks again thank you all so much