Hang in there & give the doctor time to research what will work best for you. I am BP II and I had no idea (actually denied it even though my wife knew) until I got the right diagnosis at age 61. Two or so yrs back. I am age 64 now. My life, and my daughters life, and my wife's life is better. Daughter age 22 now. In fact my wife probably would have left me had I not been put on medications. After maybe 4 yrs with another psychiatrist, my wife was right, I changed to the psychiatrist I have now. I didn't smoke pot much at all, but a week or so before being diagnosed, I spent just over a month in the Great Bear Rain Forest (Bella Coola, B.C.) and I was drinking a lot of Crown Royal whiskey. I was stoned (Didn't do pot after many yrs) a lot because a Nuxalk Indian, and another guy building my cabin over the last three yrs, always had pot for me to buy and or smoke. I was, as I had done for many yrs, smoking cigarettes. Once diagnosed I stopped everything including cold turkey cigarettes. All that stuff interferes with medications. Good luck!