Medications are an essential part of treatment for mental disorders. But medications have uncomfortable side effects and can interact badly with other drugs.
Your doctor doesn’t always know of these right off the top of his head. It’s up to you to take charge of your medications to make sure that your medications aren’t making you sicker!
You need to know everything you can about your medications, including what their common and dangerous side effects are, and if you take more than one drug, whether they interact negatively.
If you see more than one doctor, and it’s probable that you do, each one can prescribe medications without taking into account what the others have prescribed if you do not make it your responsibility to ask questions.
And each drug has side effects that indicate that something is going wrong. If you take multiple medications, what is a dangerous side effect for one may be a normal side effect for another. You need to know this information!
In this post I’m going to show you how to:
- Find online information about your medications
- Note each medication’s side effects and drug interactions
- Build a data sheet to take with you to your doctor’s appointments
- Talk to your doctor about your medications
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