In reply to Andy Mountains:
Don't know you mate, but recognise your posting-name as sensible and positive contributor to the furore of UKC
Good luck with it all mate.
I suffer a chronic condition that I have seen people die of, and I have done for 30+ years. I have just been lucky that my condition has never worsened like others. Or is it luck? I like to think the fact that I have never let it get me down, have never let it get in the way of what I want to do, and have never had an issue discussing it with folk (it's in an embarrassing, taboo area
has meant that I have just gotten on with it.
(Well, that and the fact I finally, after 10 years, started taking my medication regularly and properly, much to my doctor's relief).
So my advice is get the op done, recuperate properly and as advised, take your drugs as you're told, and then get on with it!
Good luck mate, and positive vibes indeed.