I know that it can be scary but in my eyes the hope that I wont have to struggle out of bed in the morning seems a little bit much for me to pass up. Im only 20 though and i dont know if i could go on takeing 50 mg of pred, cell cept and mestinon for the rest of my life. I will be having the surgery soon too. Theyre sayin that they are gonna try to do the minimally invasive surgery but since im such a big guy ill prolly have to get cracked open and i wish that they would do it already so i can start recovering