[AnnieBL]

Here's a treasure trove of info on the drugs some portion of us will at some point encounter if we continue to walk this path.

http://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_m2f.htm

I realize most people wouldn't consider these drugs to be "natural", but its so loaded with info I thought it should be shared.

Lotus has everything dealing with herbs covered, and I know you girls aren't going to flame me for this at least

Enjoy!

A treasure trove indeed. Thank you Sarah. While I'm far past the fork in the road that might conceivably have led me to transition, all this is good to know, particularly after my own male function seems to have been permanently (despite what Sammie`s endocrinologist says, and very little now to my regret) by drugs prescribed for other purposes. I too was taking only 50mg of spiro, but in retrospect I think my T had probably already been shut down by high doses of beta blockers on top of digoxin. Might BBs be an alternative to spiro as an AA? Going off at a bit of a tangent, I understand that many musicians and other performers take beta blockers to overcome performance anxiety: could this have a bearing on what seems to me to be a high incidence of transition among them? My guess is that the BBs certainly helped me weather not only GD but also the anxiety of being at the wrong end of an eight figure lawsuit for ten years. Now PM seems to have taken over the anxiety control function, though at least the litigation is I hope now over. The interactions between prescription drugs and their users are tricky enough - herbal interactions are far more complex. In either case I am infinitely grateful to those who have laboured to master the complexities involved.