What I am baffled is when people say "remember you are on these pills for a REASON!" as if you are never supposed to stop taking any medication after your symptoms subside. Then they are suprised nothing works for them and they get episodes even on three AP coctail. D'oh, your body is so accustomed to these, that it doesn't react to anything anymore. This is one of the reasons for minimalist medicine. Since this stuff doesn't prevent episodes entirely, you want to have space to add emergency stuff and not have your body used to a strongass combo. What happens your body compensates it to return to its normal bipolar mode, it seems.