I was on a med that made me feel like I was having minor seziures. I was awake for them too. I would just all of a sudden start shaking all over. I would feel the whole thing and know that it was happening. I could be driving, at work, at school, out with friends, or even at home and they would happen. I would remember them and would recall having them. I told my Pdoc about them and she took me off them right away. She never really could tell me what they were but once I got off that med they stopped right away. I haven't had one in 3 or 4 years. I was glad my Pdoc realized it wasn't normal and took me off them. I was also on Abilify I think is how you spell it. I was put on it at 14 back when I was first diagnosed with BP. It would make me sleep 16 to 18 hours a day. I would wake up through the week long enough to get ready for school, eat breakfast take my Abilify and walk to the school bus stop. I would get on the bus and sleep till it was time to get off the bus. I would go to my locker and go to class and would sit down at my desk and fall asleep sometimes the bell would wake me up to go to next class and then other times it wouldn't and I would wake up to the teacher waking me up and all the other students would be staring at me it was pretty embrassing for me. On the weekends I would wake up long enough to eat breakfast and take my pill and then I would go and lay back down because I would be so tired from the pill that I couldn't even keep my eyes open. I would wake up a few hours later eat lunch and go back to sleep, This would go on all day. The finally straw for me and my family with Abilify was I was at my Nana's house one day. I was staying for a few days with her. Well my cousins who were a lot younger then were there and like all little kids they wanted to play a lot. Well I woke up eat breakfast and took my meds. Well I went and laid back down on the couch because that was where I was sleeping. Well my Uncle who was about 17 or 18 at the time woke up and came in the living room and woke me up. Well I had like a 2 minute conversation with him and then fell back asleep he tried waking me up several times and each time I would fall back asleep on him. My nana that day called my mom and told her what had happened and my mom then called my other grandparents who were my mental health adovactes because they were the ones who seeked treatment for me because of some problems I had. Well they called my Pdoc at the time and told her what was going she told them to bring me in like two days later and they did. She took me off that med. It felt like I had almost an instant change in me. I had my energy back. I wasn't sleeping 16 to 18 hours a day anymore. I was finally able to be a kid again. As you see my experience with going off of certain meds made a whole world of difference in my life. I would never go off of any meds without talking to your Pdoc before hand because some can have really bad side effects if you do.