A good friend went thru a period of pretty high ibuprofen use and she now believes it was a major factor in the afib she just came down with a few months ago. She's off all ibuprofen now but on too many heart meds due to afib. She's working on that.

My daughter has been thru battles with opioid use and after that was all cleared from her body ended up on ibuprofen and she now is off it totally. Believes the edema is from it and thinks there may have been stomach bleeding which led to anemia. She says she's off ALL pain meds and I saw her yesterday and she looked so much healthier. She's getting regular D.O. work as are her teenagers.

Kitty, look at the Pain-RX, it could help you. I've never out of pain but I manage as best I can without chancing other damage. I have a post on the Natural Pain-RX Cox 2 inhibitor. Just a thought.