Was that clozaril/clozapine? It's not so bad. The weekly tests are only for 6 months and 4 years into the med I honestly don't even remember that part. After 6 months it goes to every other week and 6 months later to monthly. And the best thing is the med works. It helps a lot of people that nothing else helps, like me. Until I started clozapine I was in a mixed state most of the time. In the last 4 years I've only had one episode that was bad enough to require 4 days of an increased clozapine dose for hypomania (mania? I don't remember) and those four days stopped the episode. Otherwise I've had little shifts of my other meds and been ok. It's nothing like my old life.

I hope you find the med that helps you. For me it was clozapine and I tried what seemed like them all (really it was more like 40-50 and a lot of combinations of those.)