Sorry if you already got this question somewhere I don't usually use these sites.
My question is if you are sure it is not used to increase sex drive because that is the whole reason I am taking it
It quite well might be self-adminstered (no prescription) by given female bb'ers when wanting to increase libido; what I am saying is that this is not a medical use of the drug.
It is not a label use of the drug.
There is not a single clinical study supporting this as an off-label use of the drug.
Can I say that there is no whacked doctor out there that is doing it? No, there are bad doctors out there. But it certainly is not accepted medical practice, nor should it be.
Particularly at that dose.
It actually could be a good idea for an individual patient who was properly educated and understood the risks, at lower dose than this and with instructions and prescription for only occasional use. But in terms of good medical practice, few doctors would do this without research support. (Hearing that "drug abusers" do it to good effect doesn't count as research support.)
I'm astonished that not one but TWO doctors would prescribe a controlled substance off-label with absolutely no studies to support that use.
These are all the studies of oxandrolone that have either the word "sex" or "libido" in them, which any study on this subject would pretty much have to have:
oxandrolone AND (libido OR sex - PubMed result)
As you can see, nothing.
And over a great period of time, I have never heard of it whatsoever. Very bizarre.
If you already have it and wish to continue using it, I would:
1) Understand that there are risks of voice change and/or facial hair growth, which may be irreversible. The risk ends only when having experience with a given dosage and having been lucky and having had no problem: at that point, further use of that same dose is probably not particularly risky and use of a substantially lower dose is not risky.
2) Find the minimum dose which is effective in your case for your purpose, which quite likely will be 2.5 to 5 mg, and
3) Do not use more than 50% of the time, for example not more than 15 days per month or 30 days per 2 month period, etc. And if tending to use every week, there probably should be weeks allowed of not using it at all, but there isn't basis to say what that schedule should be. Personally I would allow at least a week fully off every month.
With the liver toxic anabolic steroids, the risk appears to be from continuing use rather than so much dosage. Where these steroids have been prescribed to women for proven medical purposes, liver damage has been seen from chronic use of doses even as low as 5 mg/day. So the low dosage does not change the fact that the liver needs "off" periods from these drugs.
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