Is it possible that meds that didn't work before might work sometime later on?
I just came out of a cluster (as my pdoc called it) of bipolar episodes where I was rapid cycling for 4 years. I've been stable for half a a year now (the longest I've been stable since I first became symptomatic) thanks to clozapine.

However, my life kinda sucks right now. I'm sleeping 12 hours a day, can't work full time because of that, feel emotionally numbed, and I can't do any extended backpacking trips because I need to go to the hospital monthly to get blood work done and pick up new prescription the next day. I used to hike and ski a lot but now I'm sleeping so much and can't really drive for the first few hours I'm awake because of clozapine sedation/drowsiness. And oh the weight gain!

My pdoc said that we can try decreasing the dose of clozapine very slowly and he says eventually I can be on a lower dose but didn't say anything about switching to something else that wasn't as effective earlier (and I have tried just about everything before taking clozapine so there's nothing new to try).