Well - went to see the last conceivable doctor this morning, and he told me that all my recent results were spot on - long-term blood sugar, cholesterol, liver function, kidney function, practically-everything function, absolutely fine. Ergo, he said, and to echo a Facebook friend of mine, "Take the damn steroids, dude."
I started taking the steroids - 60mg of Prednisolone a day, thankyouverymuch.
The thing about steroids, as I've mentioned, is that your blood sugar's gonna soar. You're probably - I mean, seriously probably - gonna put on weight while you take them. So to some extent, my expectations for the next two weeks of weigh-ins have been put on a kind of steroid-hold. I walked this morning, and I'm gonna be able to walk and bike tomorrow, and so on, but I'm kinda poised for a couple of weeks of not only disappointment, but weight-gain, irrespective of the effort I put in. Gonna give it my best possible, of course, but let's not pretend, if things go wrong, that it's the end of the world. It's not the end of the world - it's what I need to do right now to hopefully - sooooo hopefully - get my hearing back. I can kick the crap out of the weight loss when that's done.
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