A Dr I have never met wants to see me...

[JacquiThomas999]

I had a phone call from my Dr surgery earlier. A Dr who I have never seen, she is certainly not my lead Dr, wants to see me to discuss my Methotrexate. No idea why, any suggestions? I have two weeks to puzzle this out.

[medway-lady]

Our practice has a RA clinic, and we are invited in once a year for a chat. The GP I think may have an incentive to do this but it is a good idea as they don't change anything just sort of catch up with us.

[JacquiThomas999 in reply to medway-lady]

Let's hope so.

[Beaches2]

Could be just your annual " review" to check your meds and make sure blood tests are up to date? Do blood pressure and ask how you are! And yes I think they get an incentive to do these checks. It only takes about 10 minutes and I found it useful to ask a few questions without feeling as rushed as I usually do.

[craigsif]

Phone surgery and ask,say you very are becoming very stressed,and worried xx

[oldtimer]

The GPs are expected to do an annual review of anyone on long term medication.

I get an invitation to an asthma nurse review, a hypertension review and a chronic disease review.

When I turned up at the last chronic disease review the GP did not know why I was there either and had to go onto the computer to find out who had written the letter! (It was the practice nurse; the invitation had been signed by him obviously without looking at the content). Then he took off several of the repeat prescriptions (hay fever medication and the rosacea gel) which I had not used for a few months without telling me - and I had to get them re-instated. I will make sure I see one of my usual GPs next time who know what is going on, and communicate better. I remembered afterwards why I avoid this one!

[JacquiThomas999]

My meds review is in September, all my blood tests happen at the surgery and a Dr signs them off. I will just have to wait and see.

[64notout]

Perhaps this Dr's area of expertise is RA? There used to be one at my gp practice and she is missed.

[earthwitch]

Some clinics have GPs who specialise in certain areas, such as rheumatology. They may be just wanting to get to know you or to review how well your treatment is working, or your regular doctor may have asked them to review you.