I have a shoulder injury right now that basically has my life on hold. I had a similar injury last year but it went away and healed after a month or two of taking it easy. I did the same thing this time but it wasn't getting any better and I have had to almost entirely stop using my arm all together for it to heal up as best as it can. I feel like it's very slowly getting better week to week but it's taking forever. In the meantime I had to sort out my medical information and look for a doctor. Due to corona none of the doctors are seeing patients in person and I'm basically stuck waiting in a queue to talk to my doctor at the end of September over the phone, which is too long of a wait and sounds pretty useless. I'm considering taking some type of low dose of a steroid until then to hopefully heal faster and get back to normal.

Is taking steroids exclusively for the healing effects worth it? I'm not interested in using steroids for gains, I just want to heal this thing up and stop using it when I feel better. How hard is it find a trusted source? I know a number of you here are using gear, has anyone here used it exclusively to heal and gone off it? I plan on reading up on which ones are better for injury related use and how realistic this is but wanted to reach out on here and see if anyone's been in a similar spot.