st0psign,

I didn't know there was a word for this, dysthymia. It sounds like this is common for bipolar 1? I mean I can, and do, function but I feel like I am just so slow and tired. It would really be nice to enjoy life instead of being like this all the time.

ElsaMars,
Sorry your feeling so bad. I hope you feel better soon. I am on Geodon and tegretol also and occasional Xanax and one more to take in case of mania (olanzapine).

Maybe my pdoc might be willing to try AD? I don't know I just got to get up the nerve to ask him. Its such a big risk. When I go manic, it gets bad and I don't come down for a month or more. I have to go IP. Sometimes multiple times for the same manic episode. I guess I better think about this for a while. I don't want to risk stability but I don't want to stay like this either ya know?