I went to a neurologist a couple years ago about chronic migraines. Nothing came of the tests and they essentially said it couldn't be fixed. At one point, they made a mention of some medicines that are sometimes used for migraines, but I said I was mostly just checking it was definitely idiopathic and I wasn't dying of anything, so I was content to just leave things there if it couldn't be "cured". I didn't want to have to take pills forever.
Apparently, they prescribed me something (propanolol, I think) and I just never knew about it. It's been well over a year since then. Not sure if it's even still a valid prescription, and I wouldn't feel comfortable taking this medicine without actually talking it over with the specialist, which I would have done at the time if I had known. Given that the wait last time was 8 months, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
Now, doctor visits regularly involve the exchange:
Doctor: <some question about the propanolol after looking at notes>
Me: Oh, I haven't taken that.
Doctor: you've stopped taking it?
Me: no, I never took it.
Doctor: You refused to take it?
Me: I never knew I was meant to take it!
It is frankly pretty irritating to have to go over this every time the GP surgery books me in with a different doctor (basically every time). As far as I am concerned, I didn't agree to this prescription and it never happened. Can I contact them to have them remove the record of it, or is removing things from the record not something they do? It seems very unhelpful and misleading to have this on there.