I think it is very dangerous to diagnose yourself/have a non-professional diagnose you with something like bipolar. By all means bring it up with your GP if you are concerned but what you're saying doesn't particularly sound like bipolar.
Bipolar is not typically about sudden, brief mood changes (although some people do have rapid cycling moods). Generally people with bipolar have more prolonged phases of depression or mania (or hypomania) which may creep up on the person.
There is a school of thought that depression is simply bipolar in someone who hasn't yet experienced mania and by that logic some people with depression do at some point experience mania and become re-diagnosed with bipolar.
The fact that antidepressants didn't work for you is neither here nor there. Many antidepressants are effective in bipolar depression as well as unipolar depression although some increase the risk of a manic episode in someone with bipolar.
Hope that makes sense.
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