I don’t understand how I’m supposed to take it as needed for hypomania. 

-I take it the first night I feel jittery and can feel it coming on. 
-The next day I feel great and like a completely normal person. That evening I’m like, “cool I guess I’m not hypo” and go to bed without it. 
-then I wake up 3 hrs later and my next day is shot. Decide to take it again the next night and the process repeats itself. 

I don’t want to “just” take it before I feel I need it due to possible dependency issues and the potential weight gain. 

But I have no idea how to take it just for hypo episodes. I feel normal on it so how do I know if I’m back to being normal normal or if I’m drugged normal? How do I know when to stop when everything is normal? 

Any tips? 

Also in case it comes up, I’m on 100mg lamictal and seroquel “as needed”.