Drug details

Oxandrin (oxandrolone)

type of Appetite Stimulants, Androgens

Oxandrin (oxandrolone) Tablets is an anabolic steroid and is indicated as adjunctive therapy to promote weight gain after weight loss following extensive surgery, chronic infections, or severe trauma, and in some patients who without definite pathophysiologic reasons fail to gain or to maintain normal weight, to offset the protein catabolism associated with prolonged administration of corticosteroids, and for the relief of the bone pain frequently accompanying osteoporosis.

The drug is often used to treat Osteoporosis .

This drug may have the following side effects:

• headache, or
• difficulty sleeping, 
• an allergic reaction,
• swelling of the arms or legs,
• voice changes,
• new or worsening acne,
• changes in sexual desire.