WGP letter for ESA assessment . What to ask for?

Hi there.

I've been on ESA for a very long time now and as they're doing assessments again I'm sure I'll get my ESA50 in the next month or so despite my feeling of intense dread I need to get my act together.

My own beloved GP who used to write a covering letter for me has finally retired and and so I now have a new doctor who doesn't know a great deal about me or my condition.

Unlike some of the other GP's at this practice he has very kindly agreed to write me a covering letter, and said to just tell him what I want it to say. Well I have no idea what to tell him.

My main issues are pelvic pain which impacts on my mobility, severe depression, chronic fatigue and incontinence which still is yet to be successfully handled. I've been in the support group for many years, most of that without a face to face.

I don't want to be seen to be leading him, so should I tell him to mention the list of descriptors that apply to me? Or would that be seen as me back seat driving him too much?

Thanks for the quick reply.

I've already had a couple of warm up appointments with my GP just to tell him what ails me as my illness is difficult to treat as I cannot take any kind of meds whatsoever, including antibiotics or even pain relief as my inflamed bladder will go into painful seizures and bleeding. I've been left to it to self manage my condition for years sadly.

It takes time to explain all the complicated in's and outs of my problems and so I hope to try and boil it all down to the main support group descriptors.

I only hope is he's willing to take them on board and refer to them as my previous GP didn't, but would just write in more general terms such as "we cannot do anything to deal with her pain and fatigue. She sleeps most of the time etc, etc."

You are in the same situation as me. My family GP retired and now I have a new one who knows nothing about me. Unfortunately he's not been very helpful at all and won't even give me a list of the medications I am prescribed. I am agoraphobic and have been forced to make an appointment on monday to see him about all of this.