Dosage Of Contrave

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This is the end of my first week with one pill per day. I just took the first evening pill. I don't understand. If one pill in the morning is working, why do I have to increase the medicine. I have RA, Sjogrens, Graves disease, fibromyalgia and am hypothyroid. I take plaquenil, nexium and synthroid. I would rather not add any more medicine to my system than necessary.

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Hello, Annie! How are you?

The dosage is generally raised, because based on testing, that is the dosing regimen that was found to be safe and effective for most people.

Whether or not you take more is entirely up to you, but for the best results, it's usually a good idea to follow your doctor's instructions.

The FDA lists the typical side effects of Contrave as possibly including nausea, dizziness, headache, insomnia, nervousness and anorexia.

Is there anything else I can help with?

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Hi Annie. You probably feel just right on one pill but if they double your dosage, then dependence gets easier on this drug. Big pharma's intention is to hook you real nice and proper. Making you dependent on a pill for the rest of your life means constant cash flow for them. A pill that if you stop taking will lead you into withdrawl. Don't believe me?
If you look on the FDA's website at the conversations between the makers of suboxone and the FDA for ten long years back and forth. Each time the FDA asking the same question and each time getting a half ass or lame excuse as an answer from the makers of that drug. For no reason that I could read, one day they changed their tune 100% in the opposite direction and seemed excited too get suboxone on the streets pronto. There was no proof to read but one can read between the lines that somebody probably got handed a gigantic sack of money. Want to know what the whole topic was about.? For 10 years the FDA asked questions such as: how do you come off of your drug, what is the wean down schedule of your drug, are there plans on making a smaller dosage of this drug so that people can wean off of your drug that you wont state how a patient would try to do in the first place?
How could anyone with a soul approve of something like that. Its the absolutely most addictive force that the pharmaceutical market has ever produced and not know how to stop taking it. Answer: They do not want anyone to stop taking it. Hell is not enough punishment for the person responsible for these crimes but I do hope that's where they spend eternity. It would be easier than coming off of suboxone.
Hope that helps someone if not Annie. ; )
J

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I have ms and take fluoxetine twice a day. Can I take contrave while still on fluoxetine, if not how long does it take for fluoxetine to leave my system. I have been taking it for yrs. I would rather give Contrave a try now because I am very overweight

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