Cortisone in a sentence as a noun

The one thing that seems to help is a cortisone shot _early_ which seems to knock about three months off the the disease's course.

So it was weird when my primary care doctor put me on a cocktail of pain killers, nerve blockers, and cortisone shots.

Athletes regularly use the steroid cortisone to recover from injury, is that not cheating too?

He has to take them in combination with cortisone and in quantities that severely affect his mood, blood pressure and energy levels.

In fact, as is the case with cortisone, steroids can improve an athletes chances of recovering from an otherwise career-ending injury.

The taking of anti-inflammatories [ibuprofen, cortisone … ] could be a factor in aggravating the infection.

Professional musicians take beta-blockers, athletes get laser eye surgery and take cortisone and opiate shots before/during competition, programmers take Adderall and Modafinil, male porn stars shot their penises full of ***** to stay erect for hours on end, etc.

Cortisone definitions

noun

a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone