Cymgen Withdrawal Experience

Hi All, thanks for this useful chat. I live in South Africa and have been on cymgen 60mg for about 8 months for anxiety and depression. It has helped a bit, but of late I feel it is working less and less. I work as a researcher at a university, and my job requires a good amount of creative thought and writing. Over the last 8 months, I feel that my creativity and ability to work effectively has been severely hampered. I tried to come off the cymgen 2 weeks ago, without knowing of the negative side effects. My withdrawal was severe, including vertigo, light headedness, flu like symptoms, diarrhoea, very poor levels of concentration and tiredness. I then did some reading, and am back on the drugs and feeling much better after just one day. I will now try a very gradual tapering, of about 10% reduction every two weeks.

Please, all, take coming off the drugs slowly. The withdrawal is bad.

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The best way to stop a medication like this, due to the effect it has on brain chemicals is by doing a very slow taper, rather than going cold turkey. Generally, the modern preferred method is to have the patient start to skip days, while gradually lowering the dosage, at the same time.

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