Thanks, Brad. I gotta tell you that I worry about your taking all the meds you've mentioned in various places, especially with a diagnosis of bipolar. Everything I've read about that particular condition leads me to believe less medication rather than more is better. It's dangerously easy to get into a pharmaceutical up-down roller coaster with that problem, and you already have a huge roller coaster to deal with with bipolar alone. If you start with lithium salts. Then mix in an amphetamine like Adderall and a narcotic-like sleeper such as Ambien. Then account for whatever other prescription meds you take. Plus grass. Plus alcohol if you use that, too. The end result is a huge tossed salad of medicines and substances that don't do a thing for anyone but the pharmaceutical industry.

I find myself wondering if a single doctor or pharmacist knows about all your meds and blesses them or if they've been obtained from several prescription-writers who don't know what the other guys are prescribing. If you can, please get one intelligent, sensible doc to look at everything you're taking and let him try and simplify things, starting with lithium as a base, so your mental and physical health won't be in peril from the all-too-frequent problem of too many pills.