If your psychiatrist is willing and able to create a list that is great, but it may or may not include details on what your experiences were with the medications. Consider asking that, if your doc will print something. That extra info is always something you can provide. I'd have something in writing (not on your phone). Ideally, print it or maybe the hospital doc would allow you to email it? The harder you make it for them the more likely they won't pay much attention to it.
There have definitely been medications I've taken in the past that I would NEVER try again. However, there have been medications that I was taken off of or didn't like a first time around, but liked a second time around either at a different dose or in a different cocktail. Please keep such a thing in mind. Also, I've had medications that gave me side effects the first time, but not the second time, or the second time I waited them out long enough to see the side effects ease or disappear. I also have a few meds I'd take in emergency cases that I wouldn't plan to stay on long-term. Heck, if I'm seriously psychotic or catatonic, put me on Haldol, Zyprexa, Risperdal, or Perphanazine. I wouldn't care. But then I would want to transition to something different once I was sufficiently stabilized, or just a little better.
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