Trippin: The meds are very effective and they are useful in helping me recover from the manic episode because they are used to control manic symptoms. I think even if I am not bipolar, the meds are easing my mind away from the episode and my episode was so bad it is taking so long to recover. It's not like getting hungover: I can't just bounce back from an episode and be okay. Bipolar or not, it is a mind-altering/life-changing event and I have to do everything I can to go back to normal.

Anika: I agree with you and I think that an option may be is to reevaluate me when I am fully off the meds. I think that if I cannot be tested now, a month or two off the meds will be the only sure way of knowing if it was AD-induced or not. Because yes, these drugs are heavy duty, however, I cannot simply jump right off of them because I feel normal. My friends and family have warned me that many people with bipolar will feel like they don't need the meds and then jump off their meds and have another episode. I sent my doctor a message last night so hopefully sometime today he will email me back. He is a good doctor and replies within a day or two.

Tsunamisurfer: I do realize that and it is something my doc and I will talk about. I don't intend to jump off them at all; since I have been on the meds I have been working really hard to slowly ease off them. I am just hoping I can be reevaluated to see if it was AD-induced or not. I think the meds have made me better than when I wasn't on them. I was depressed all my life until I took the AD.