If you know where you ' re going to be next , it might be worthwhile to try to make an appointment with a rheumatologist in the next town . Many rheumatologists can take a couple of months to get into for an appointment . It ' s going to be incredibly difficult to properly treat this disease if you do have RA if you don ' t have some sort of home base with a GP and a rheumatologist you can come back and see regularly . It ' s not as simple as just getting a diagnosis and then getting on medication the symptoms can flare up , and medication can stop working and need to be adjusted or changed . If you have RA or another autoimmune disease you ' re going to need an ongoing relationship with a rheumatologist somewhere you need someone you can call if your symptoms suddenly flare up . I know what the traveling life is like , and after I got sick I had to change my lifestyle significantly to be in one place more regularly .