Getting hypomanic while taking ADs doesn't necessarily mean that someone has bipolar. At the same time, not everyone who has bipolar will become hypomanic on ADs.

When I took just ADs, I definitely went hypomanic very quickly.

Motown, you've been struggling since you joined this site with how the pdoc had labelled you as bipolar and how you view having bipolar as being a death sentence and making you a horrible person.

You've been having a very hard time with that, and every time you talk about it you say so many things that are unintentionally cruel to those of us who have bipolar.

Please don't play around with the medications. You're going to mess yourself up more, and if you DO manage to get yourself hypomanic you are going to then become extremely paranoid and agitated about whether or not that one pdoc was right, and you will reset any and all progress you've been making.

So don't. Just don't.