Well, I confirmed today that I hate seeing nurse practioners rather than doctors. Usually the urgent care I go to has a dr there, but today it was an ARNP. I also confirmed that I hate women health care providers.

Here's what happened.

I ended up having a small UTI. Then she freaked because the test also showed keytones and protien in my urine, which meant I was borderline diabetic and that I needed to stop taking al my meds beacause all of them make blood sugar high. I know one of them has that possibility (the AP), but I will risk that chance if it means not having psychotic symptoms. To tell me they all raise blood sugar and that I needed to get off them was not appropriate.

She asks when the last time I had blood work done was. I told her 2008. Then she asks who my PCP is, so she can send the information from today to them when I go for follow-up. I tell her I don't have one. She freaks again and asks how I am getting my medication then. I tell her a psychiatrist. She then tells me if you are on long-term medication, you should be getting bloodwork done every 6 months. And that my psychiatrist is a horrible doctor if he is not monitoring what the medicaton is doing to me.

WTH?!? That just flat out pissed me off. She is only an ARNP at a walk-in clinic...who is she to question my psychiatrist.