[jesusplay]

I have bipolar 2. I'm on zyprexa, prozac, and lamictal.

I've had a few break through days where I feel 100% but mostly I'm low mood or depressed.

Do meds just manage symptoms or cure the bipolar?

You can not "cure" Bipolar but you can manage it and learn to cope and meds can help this

[lifelies]

It seems that you're taking an antipsychotic(Zyprexa, [Olanzapine]), an anticonvulsant used as mood stabilizer (Lamictal, [Lamotrigine]) and an antidepressant (Prozac, [Fluoxetine]).
As you can guess, those antisomething drugs don't really cure anything - they just help your brain to cope with it. Antipsychotics are widely used for Bipolar disorder (I don't really know why, but I bet for prevent/avoid psychosis in manic/depressive/mixed episodes). Anticonvulsants like Lamotrigine are also used as mood stabilizers (just like lithium) - they help you to be more in the middle of your mood - neither too depressive or too manic. And, finally, an antidepressant like Fluoxetine is used -obviously- for coping with depression.

So they should help you to manage your symptoms, not to cure them. As far as I know, there's no way to "cure" a mental disorder - there're just plenty of ways to manage them (drugs, therapy...).
Cheers,
Lana
Lifelies

[deelooted]

What dosage of olanzapine are you on? This one works very good for me...so far!