"i am a black male   50 years old 5&#039;5 beginning weight 226 pounds. i started taking contrave 08/18/2017. today is just about my 4th week taking it and i have lost 9 pounds. at first i thought is wasn&#039;t working but now i have to make myself eat. only side effect i had when i first started was a little nausea an a few headaches. after two days the side affects were gone. i weighed 217 this morning and my goal is to get down to about 190 pounds. so far so good."