#SuddenHearingLoss changes your life profoundly. It is a by product of many factors including #Diabetes and #HeartDisease. Mine was further exacerbated by my many years in the #MusicBiz (live and in the studio). #Neurologists will try desperately in the early days to reverse it with #steroid injections into your inner ear(s), but the window closes quickly before it becomes permanent. Living in silence (with some whooshing in the background) can be lonely, but BS free too.https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/11/deaf-hard-of-hearing-asl-personal-essay?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
At 56, I woke to silence: the strange, sudden loss that changed everything

Since the US has no federal mandate for hearing aid coverage, I found myself in a quandary – I couldn’t communicate with the hearing or the deaf

The Guardian
My thumb is numb. This morning, I had a #steroid shot injected into a tendon to, we hope, cure my trigger thumb. That first required a numbing agent so no one would have to see me cry. We'll see if it works. Either way, i should get buff from the steroids, right? #doctor

Here is my first video upload on #peertube
https://kino.kompot.si/w/kLPH263nLypaYsRe2LinG2

tnx to @g1smo for the help!!!

#steroid #eggpunk #MKNŽ

Steröid - Let's Rock, Loud Rock (live @ MKNŽ, Ilirska Bistrica, 28.11.2025)

PeerTube

A mystery 30+ years in the making!

In this #OpenAccess Brief Report, Wu et al. describe a novel physiological function of the #Arabidopsis
PPRD1 in #brassinosteroid #biosynthesis, and new possibilities for alternative #steroid reductases involved in steroid #metabolism.

🌱 https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70022

#PlantSci

💉 More than half of a sample of unregulated anabolic–androgenic #steroid products sold in Australia were mislabelled or mis-sold, according to #UQ_News #MonashUni #Griffith_Uni

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/are-steroids-sold-in-australia-what-they-claim-to-be

5 days til 💉💥🩻. 😱

#pain #anesthesia #steroid #injection #XRay

(I know - it's a new one on me, too.)

Why am I always dreading #steroid injections into my effed up ankle, when it always turns out to be a bit of a non event when it's done? Slight pinch when they inject the numbing agent, a slight sense of pressure at first and then ... nothing. All good. 🤷

27 hours without sleep, thanks to the steroid knee injection. My personal record for someone who needs 10 hours a night. The doctor forgot to mention insomnia is common and can last 1-3 days! I feel like I've drunk gallons of expresso.

#steroid #steroidinjection #arthritis #osteoarthritis #kneearthritis #corticosteroids

Oh, this is fantastic. The Police Benevolent Association is suing #NYPD Police Commissioner Caban and #NYC Mayor Adams over policy changes which tighten #regulations over anabolic #steroid use, requiring that cops show that it is medically necessary. The Police Malevolent Society would prefer that #cops be able to ingest as many steroids as they like, if it helps them assert their will. That will just tends to be rather #racist. https://boingboing.net/2024/05/01/nypd-union-sues-over-officers-rights-to-use-steroids.html
NYPD union sues over officers' rights to use steroids

Lawyers from the Police Benevolent Association have filed a lawsuit against NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams over recent policy changes relating to the use of performance enhancing…

Boing Boing