Finally my husband is on the right medication and I can breath again. He had been so impossible that I got to the point where I nearly left him. He went to the Dr just over 2 weeks ago to get some more Xanax, he also made the mistake of taking me along with him
After having a good chat with the Dr the Dr prescribed him some Tegretol. We got the medication that night and he took his first one that night. With our amazement including the Dr's amazement they worked straight away.
He still has mood swings every now and then but they are kind of funny cause instead of doing his block to the point where you have to leave the house he does it in a calm way. Hubby even said to me that he must have been a real bastard before. I told him he was worse then a bastard, had me in tears most of the time. He is so glad that I went with him to the Dr that afternoon and said something cause he feels so much better now.
The Dr told us that this medication is only new to the market. He had a big smile on his face when I told him that Hubby is 90% better then what he was before he went on the medication.
I hope this will enspire many people out there that have tried medication after medication with no success. Go to your Dr and ask for Tegretol, give it go and hopefully there will be more people out there that suffer from Bipolar that turn into happy people 
I will of course keep you all up-to-date on how things are going but I think I already know that this medication is the best. Oh yeah another excellent news is that this medication doesn't make you addicted to them.
Not sure about Tegretol being new to the market. Tegretol has actually been around a while. It may be that it is new to the market for Bipolar Disorder because it has been prescribed for Epileptic Seizure Disorders for years. A lot of the Epileptic drugs are now being cross used for Bipolar Disorder.
Irregardless... while we can state that our meds are doing well for us... we can't suggest or advise others on what to take. Each med does something different for each person and while this med may work out well for your husband... another individual may have the opposite effect from it. It's between the individual & their pdoc.
I am glad for both you & your husband however, that he has found a med that seems to be helping him. I so know the med merry go round and it is very frustrating to have to keep changing, tweaking, and so forth the med or med combos. Keep in mind, your husband will likely have this going on in the future but for now... if improvement in symptoms and symptom control is a happening ... then yeah!!
One little thing though... encourage him gently but consistently about the meds cause often times.. when someone starts to sense some stability & feel better in comparison to where they were... more often than not, most will tend to want to quit their meds.
We live in Australia so we tend to get things last here. When I say it's new to the market it's what the Dr told us. All I wanted to do with this post is to make people aware that there is hope, there is a treatment out there that can help you. I know that some people will not be able to take Tegretol having said that what I am saying is if you have been on so many different medications and nothing has helped. Ask the Dr about Tegretol, there might be that chance that it will work just the same way as it worked for my husband. If for some reason you will not be able to take it then there might be one out there that is similar that will work for you.
Yes I am very excited to have my husband back to the way he used to be. I was very close of leaving him cause he was imposible to live with, he used to put me down. I suffer from Depression as it is, only mild which I tend to be able to control on my very own but when he puts me down on a daily basis it makes it hard for me to control my depression. Just after christmas I tried to kill myself cause I couldn't handle him anymore, I know it was stupid but with everything I have had to deal with it was bound to happen, I was bound to hit rock bottom. I can only be strong for both of us for a certain amount of time and if something doesn't give then I go down with a bang.