Sick of em!

It is also true that BP is a fad diagnosis too and that since there is no objective measurement, misdiagnoses happen.

One needs to adress that with the profesional, not on the board, though. If the doubts are serious, discarding them by "your diagnosis is talking" is not gonna help anything. The OP needs to share these doubts with a doctor, just to be on safe side.

True- and since it's a fad, that makes thosr of us who honestly have it kind of grumpy. Mismanagement of someone who HAS bipolar is a problem as well.

I would agree that talking to your doctor needs to be your first port of call. Recently I read a rather startling statistic, which is that the US has the highest rate of bipolar disorder, at four percent of the population. That's a staggering figure... the rest of the world it's one percent. So there is a possibility that there's been a misdiagnoses. However, you HAVE to talk to your pdoc about this. Going off cold turkey would definitely make you ill.

There's also the fact that just because you feel better on meds doesn't mean you're better. I feel much better on meds, but like others I have break through symptoms. (I've been having some for just over a week now.) In a way I'm glad I get these breaktthroughs, because they remind me that I do need my meds, and remove the temptation to stop taking them. It's too easy to forget pain... have you ever noticed that physical pain is hard to remember? Well, so is emotional pain. In the same way as, when you're depressed, you can never remember being happy, so when you are doing well emotionally it's hard to remember just how awful depression or psychoses actually were.

You need to be very very careful not to make things worse. By all means, talk to your pdoc about gradually reducing the meds. That way, if anything ugly pops up, you'll catch it in time. If you come off all at once then it's more likely that the something ugly will catch you.

You've probably heard it before, but feeling better is likely to mean that the meds are working! That is their purpose after all. Thing is, it also can create a feeling of being 'cured', followed by the temptation to go off them. A show of hands of this experience would be enormous. Myself included.
These are important questions to reflect upon and like so many have pointed out, speak with a professional about. Because VH is right. We simply can't diagnose here.
Oh yeah, definitely. More than grumpy.

Also second what mgran said (sorry, had a quoting on button issue). Pain is too easy to forget. At best it's remembered in a foggy sort of way. This is a big reason why I journal sometimes. It helps to see in black and white what was going on even if I can't "feel" it at the time. Gives me a reality check.

Don't be afraid to talk with the professionals. Reflect on the why you feel it's incorrrect and write the thoughts down. Don't leave out the bad parts, because a full picture is needed for an accurate diagnosis, right?