Big Pharma ?????? Do they really know what they are doing?????

So my husband has been on cholesterol medication for many year, and I mean many years. They have had him on Niaspan along with the cholesterol medication. He suffers from gout or uric acid buildup in this body and his left ankle is very swollen. I thought once he retired completely, it would go down. Well guess what, it hasn’t. I do a lot of investigating medications and there side-effects since I had cancer. I really don’t want to take synthetic drugs because of what they do to us.
One day I decided to take a look at Niaspan and it’s side effects. Low and behold I see the statement, if you suffer from gout do not take more than 1000 mg a day. Well, his doctor, and I can’t really blame her, had him on 1500 mg a day for a while. I told him to only take 2 pills a day but the damage had already been done. So now he has to wear a brace which I don’t know if it is really doing any good. He now has been taken off Niaspan because they now realize it has no effect on helping cholesterol.
I understand that they want to protect us from heart attack but maybe if these companies and scientist would stop genetically modifying our food and let them naturally do what they are supposed to do maybe we would not have so much disease and obesity in our society.
No wonder antibiotics don’t work on us, we already have so much in our systems from our food that when we do need it for illness, they don’t work.
Right now, my husband is not on any drugs for cholesterol and we have a prescription for something to begin in January. Well not sure I want him taking it because of the side effects. The statement – if you are over 65 years old take with caution because the side effects can be greater than normal. Last spring his doctor put him on a medication- it was said to help his cholesterol and keep his sugar level in a better range. He was on the medication for 3 months and guess what – he gained 45 pounds and now has shortness of breath. The medication he is being asked to take said the side effects of this medication may never go away if you are 65 or older. I wonder if this is the case with this other medicine as those side effects have not gone away either. Having major issues with weight loss no matter what we do. So what do we do?
I think we all need to look at these companies that supply medicine and see and how they are training there sales rep. with regards to side effects. I don’t know if I blame them, I blame the Big Pharma companies. MONEY BEFORE PEOPLE. That’s they way to go.
What are your thoughts?