Coping With Renal Failure

I’ve had disabling arthritis for years and was prescribed nsaids, which I faithfully have taken. (For at least 15 years, I’m 61 years old now) For the last 6 years I’ve noticed I’ve been getting weaker and weaker. The pain in my back had worsened and the nsaids didn’t seem to help. My primary physician had gone to another job and I had found a new physician that after a year happened to take the right test and I was in acute renal failure. My kidneys were functioning at only 30%, as we all know it’s dialysis at 20%. So it’s a long hard climb to come out of it, I hope just one person reads this and benefits from my experience. There are so many people in the U.S. with kidney problems, why only in the U.S? Is it from the medications that are so readily available to us from over the counter, or is it the drugs given to the cows and chickens meant to aide in their growth and health? It really makes you wonder….