When I was on the med merry-go-round I bought a paperback edition of the PDR and highlighted the drugs I’d tried. Red for those that had horrible side effects, yellow for those that I might give a second chance alone or with different meds. Green for those that worked. That was how I figured out AD were terrible for me. When I told the pdoc I was seeing at the time, he was like, oh yeah, we’re finding out AD aren’t good for bipolar 1 patients! Gee why are you giving them to me then?
don’t know if they make the paperback anymore but it was a great reference for me and my pdocs. I didn’t have to remember anymore. But since starting latuda I’ve been on just that for oh gee, years now and I threw the book away when I moved. Maybe I shouldn’t have.