Honestly I have never considered stopping my meds or questioned that I needed to take them. I have questioned why bother though. I have a built-in answer to what happens if I don't take them and do they work: my body doesn't like meds much and many, many times I've been on something that was working and had to stop it because of a bad side effect or because it became dangerous. I did have a several month long time period when I couldn't take meds because I had lithium toxicity (my blood levels were low because I was throwing up all the time and so it took a long time to finally get a level that was accurate) and all the vomiting meant I wasn't getting my other meds either so I didn't get much medication for those months at all and it was horrible. My body has shown me why I, personally, need these meds and also has made me battle for some combination that works reasonably well but can be tolerated. I think knowing why and that I do need meds is the sole blessing of my body's hatred of medication but at least there is one blessing in the mess.

40 meds tried
currently on 68th cocktail (dose changes not included)
will be starting 69th cocktail sometime in the next 3-4 weeks