Man, while I have no advice to offer I can tell you something to be aware of.

My next door neighbor has a daughter who is bipolar. She is now in her early 50s, but this was about 15-18 years ago. I don't know if she stopped taking her meds or she switched meds or what, but she had a breakdown.

She was taken to a state mental hospital in Baton Rouge and my neighbor and his wife were called to be informed she was there. They went see her every day and after the third or fourth day they noticed she was getting worse. From what he told me, she was unhinged. The doctors told them she was making progress but when they would meet with her there was nothing about her that showed making progress. I don't know how this part all happened, but they were able to have a doctor who didn't work there look at her charts from the hospital. The doctor advised them to go get her out ASAP.

A lot of the meds they were giving her were meds that once you start taking you have to ween yourself off of. Instead, they would give her something and if there was no sign of improvement, they would switch her to something else and within a full 7 day week, they switched her meds 4 different times.

The doctor then gave her lose dosage of the last meds they gave her, she had to ween off of that medicine then prescribed something else that didn't seem to be working so she had to be weened off of that medicine then finally they found what works the best for her.

They had problems with her when she was a teenager. She was diagnosed with BPD and she was taking meds and was able to function. She went to college, had a pretty good job and then I guess the meds she had been on just stopped working and that's when she had the breakdown. So I hope you can find a balance of the right meds for her and hopefully she doesn't stop taking them at some point.