viscats,
A couple of options:
1. At 70, we aren't worth the time and effort of the medical community, so we just wait for THE permanent solution.🤪😱jk
2. Decide what hurts the most for you, research and document everything.
3. Join groups like this, and keep asking questions, in vivid detail, using different wording, until you get what you need.
4. Decide to just live with a problem. I have had to do this, for example, with my OMG migraines. I no longer care what the cause(s) are, just treat the symptoms. My chronic 💩💩pain, 17 years of tests and "miracle drugs" that have no effect on me. So, I buy miralax in bulk and pray for the diarrhea to kick in. I should have bought stock in miralax years ago... at least I'd be a rich person, full of 💩💩😳
5. Get a boxing bag and put a drawing of your pain on it, then punch 🥊 it out, til you are too tired to care. I did this.
Ain't getting old the pits‼️‼️
ShelleyW