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What bothers me about this far as I understand the drug doing the 'work' has bad side effects when given to men. Not as in some percentage of men, but 100% of the men will have unacceptable side effects.

So they're also adding other drugs to try and compensate for those. And of course that doesn't work very well.

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Which part? Letrozole, anastrozole, and exemestane (the three biggest AIs) are all incredibly effective at keeping estrogen levels within range given a knowledgable doctor providing supervision.

The biggest problem is that there is a lot of taboo with testosterone treatments and finding a doctor that keeps up to date with the research is incredibly difficult depending on where you are located.

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