Friends of mine in the HS coaching game told me that he suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and had to take steroids for it, that being one of the few therapies, other than nsaids, which really help. I wanted to clear up that, when I mentioned steroids, I wasn't talking about anabolic steroids. prednisone, and family, as I said basically weaken and can even dissolve tissue over a period of time. I have no rotator cuff in my right shoulder. It's partially the result of repeated injury, tennis, kayaking, and construction, but it's also partially because I've had probably 50 shots of cortisone (precedent drug to prednisone) in that shoulder...