Exhausted after dealing with inflammation for a year

I’m 24 and I’ve been dealing with nonstop eye issues for almost a year now, and I’m honestly worn out. I’ve had around 3–4 flare-ups in the past year, and each time things seem to get better, something else sets me back. I’m hoping someone who’s been through something similar can tell me how things turned out for them.

My main problems have been recurring uveitis and macular edema (fluid leaking in my retina). I’ve been on steroid drops, which helped the inflammation, but they also caused my lens to swell and made my vision even blurrier. I was also put on dilation drops — first atropine and later cyclopentolate — and both of those made my vision blurry for days at a time. My autoimmune and rheumatology labs all came back negative, and my eye pressure has stayed in the normal range. My inflammation is down to about +1 now, but the blurriness still hasn’t gone away.

The part that stresses me out is that I’m young, and before all this I had perfect 20/20 vision. Now some days my near vision is crystal clear, but my mid and long-distance vision are terrible. My doctor said the steroid drops might’ve caused the lens to swell, which could mean I’ll need glasses permanently.

I’m doing everything they tell me to do — all the appointments, the drops, tapering correctly — but it’s been almost a year of this and I’m mentally exhausted. I just want my vision back and to know this isn’t permanent.

So I’m just wondering: has anyone else gone through uveitis, macular edema, lens swelling from steroids, or long-lasting blurriness even after inflammation went down? Did your vision ever return to normal? Did the blurriness eventually fade after stopping atropine, cyclopentolate, or the steroids?

Any success stories or reassurance would help me a lot.