Healthy body doesn't need drugs.
I have have joint pain for ever since I turned 18 yrs old (25 yrs ago ...lol). I use to take ibuprofin and stopped taking it all together after I started seeing a chiropractor. I use to think they were quaks - learned I was wrong. Hard to explain until you go and get adjusted ... can't "fix" something overnite because problems could have existed for 10, 20, 30 + yrs. The older you are the slower it takes. I use to go 3 times/week and am down to once a week.... wish I made the time to go 2 times a week. I can think clearer, but that may not be a good thing.
You start to notice the crap you were oblivious to for so long .... you start to see there are ways out of things. Much easier to be a cloud and procede forward like we all do each day.
My wife works for pharmaceutical company - they do all kinds of gene therapy things. Sad part is the company is there to make $, not cure us IMHO. They would go out of business if were all were heathly.
All the big companies compete against each other to get the products out to market as fast as possible. Unfortunately the investors want products and not excuses to why they got beat out on a patent.
Sorry for your loss, Raven.
All kinds of nasty drug interactions going on - imagine being 75 yrs old and taking 10+ pills a day .... miracle the elderly live as old as they do.
Elderly friend of mine is about 75 yrs old, he meditates to control is lower GI isssues. Works much better than the pills the doctors want him to take.
Human body can heal itself if we allow it. The human mind is also much stronger tool if we learn how to harness it.
A little prayer can also go a long way.