Im taking L-theanine again, possible withdrawal?

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I felt really off the yesterday and today. Coincidently, I stopped taking l-theanine as I felt it no longer helped my anxiety.

So either:

  1. I was going through l-theanine withdrawal
  2. It was helping in other ways even though it wasn’t really helping with anxiety
  3. Both of the above.

I suspect the answer might be 3.

I’ve just taken 400mg of l-theanine again now, so will see what effect that has.

I was experiencing mild confusion (really mild) and mild dizziness, and trouble thinking straight.

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I love l-theanine. Might take some now, after my poppy seed tea

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I took it for a while, at first I thought it actually made me relax. Then I started taking it almost daily, and I couldn’t tell if it was working anymore, and my anxiety returned. I probably built a tolerance or something. Eventually I stopped taking it.

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Same here, after a while it lost its effectiveness

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Well, after taking it, the mild confusion went away as did the mild dizziness .

I was taking 800mg of l-theanine supplement a day for about a year, so I think I might have run into some withdrawal issue by stopping it cold turkey.

I’ll try tapering off it instead of going cold turkey and see how that goes.

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