@saraheigen this forum is not supposed to provide medical advice, only experiences.

I have a kid on insulin who would die in days without it, and also on anti-convulsants and has not had a life-altering seizure in 10 years. My mother lived until 95+ thanks to medications. I took meds for cancer, and for my bones, and they have saved me.

So I would not say, in our experience, that meds are bad. Nevertheless they need to be carefully chosen, monitored for side effects as well as interactions, and the situation of a drug treating a drug's effects needs to be avoided unless the first drug is necessary for life. That's my view, as a lay person who unfortunately has dealt with a lot of medical situations.

Chances are you will keep some but a "wash out" meaning getting rid of candidates one at a time might be helpful.