@gracie71 Thank you for your input. I've been lucky in the sense that I have been an exercise instructor/bodybuilder my whole life. I went into the surgery in excellent health and came out of it with systemic inflammation. I am allergic to metal and on top of that a redhead and science knows that redheads react differently. I'd never had any surgery and had only been in the hospital to have my children. So this was all new to me. I finish prednisone next week and then taper off the other two meds. My labs have all been excellent from the beginning of triple therapy treatment, with the exception of a flare that happened when I tapered quickly down to 1 mg of prednisone (not much oversight by the lung doctor at that time -don't know why they had her be the oversight of my case except for pleural effusions but ultimately this was caused by ablation so cardiac should have overseeing this from day one). Now I have researched this so much I could teach a class. I think that I will be fine. I cut out all inflammatory foods prior to the surgery - sugar especially - and have focused on Kefir and greek yogurt for stomach and GI protection while taking all the meds. No difference in labs for kidneys and liver from before or after surgery so I think that made a huge difference in my recovery. I believe that food is the first medicine and ultimately heals with long term anti inflammatory diets. I appreciate your information on your eye experience. My eye appt is March, as I had to put it off due to prednisone changing eye pressure and we didn't want false readings. Take care and I hope you recover without any more issues.