CONTRAVE may help patients make long-term changes to their eating behavior, lose weight, and keep it off. Across three long-term studies, patients taking CONTRAVE lost approximately 2-4x more weight than with diet and exercise alone. In one study, patients who stayed on CONTRAVE for a full year and participated in intensive behavior modification lost 25 pounds on average.
For people who started with a BMI 30 to 35, more than 70% of those who saw results at Week 16 and remained on treatment for 56 weeks were able to move into a healthier, non-obese category (BMI 29.9 or less) after 1 year on CONTRAVE.
If you have not lost at least 5% of your body weight after 16 weeks of taking CONTRAVE, your healthcare provider might tell you to stop taking it. CONTRAVE does not work for everyone in the same way.