[AbiDrew85]

I'd encourage you, if you haven't, to look at the abstracts of papers on PM in Google Scholar. I'm no scientist, but it looks to me like PM is a lot safer than pharm hormones. There are ( I think) 3 kinds of estrogen, and PM replicates the safest form. I seem to recall papers that indicate that PM not only is unlikely to cause breast cancer, but actually to protect against it. The only thing that would make me consider pharm hormones would be the unavailability of PM.

Bryony,

He mentioned he was using and is considering using again injectables. Which are presently known to be the safest pharm hormones provided proper sterilization procedures are followed and the needle is properly injected and so forth. I'm using pills otoh, which aren't quite nearly as safe, but much cheaper... They're still considered "safe enough".

The truly "unsafe" pharm hormones are the pharmaceutical anti-androgens and the "conjugated" hormones. Such as premarin. And among those, finasteride, which is what finpecia is, is one of the safest pharmaceutical anti-androgens. Actually, it's essentially the same thing as saw palmetto only far more powerful. It only really becomes unsafe for "normal" males who can become clinically depressed and even suicidal on too high a dose due to the perceived and very real loss of their maleness.

Enough finasteride can actually completely shut down the testes, which is, I imagine, what Patti has done. I actually doubt Patti needs finasteride anymore and just going back on PM would be all that's necessary at this point for the body hair to slow back down again.