How long does Contrave take to work?

Am jealous that you've had no side effects. I'm on week 3 and have a non-stop headache and nausea. I can manage to live with the nausea, but the headache needs to go. Within the first 2 weeks, I've managed to drop 5lbs. Am considering going back to the week 2 dosage since I was comfortable with that and it worked on controlling cravings. How are feeling now - your original post was 19 days ago.

The medication really doesn't suppress the appetite. It is more helpful to control cravings. That can take up to 4 weeks on the full dose. (So, 4 weeks once you are taking 4 pills a day).