I know this isn't what you want to hear, but I think you've already received your answer. There's nothing wrong with looking for natural alternatives, but you are most likely to get "relief or good improvement" by the use of drugs to mask the pain. I think most of the folks on here who have had their various pains for a length of time have come to terms with their illness, and the fact that they are most likely to have to learn how to cope with it in their own way. I wish there was, but I don't believe that most natural "cures", at the present time, will give you the kind of relief you (or I) would like.