Tegratol and it's "cousin" triliptal did nothing for me (bipolar, OCD, bpd, ptsd). Depakote is the first thing in 5? years that's done anything stabilizing for me, but I haven't had weight gain and completely understand not being able to tolerate that.

For 2 years I had my meds changed every single week, definitely feel ya on the guinea pig syndrome.

Other semi-success for me was Geodon, but I ruined my run with that. However it caused me to develop (as far as we can tell, I've been off it for 6 months after 6 years on) permanent tremors.