Steroids in Medical Use

[Underworld]

When someone is prescribed/treated with steroids medically, they don't go through PCT once they come off.

Now, maybe this is because the doses are much lower than you and I might take, but I know in some cases(such as cancer) they use Anadrol which is minimum dose 50mg. Surely after a few weeks on that you'd need PCT.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

 

[Tux]

Usually steroids are prescribed as a last-ditch effort, and the dosage is quite low overall, recovering HPTA is the least of their concerns. Also, most MD's are quite hypocritical when it comes to using AAS to actually "HELP" the patient vs just enhance his physique. My father( an MD) called me way back around march asking if there were anything I could have him presribe to a patient and friend of his with liver cancer. He'd been refused a transplant, was loosing weight quickly, bad sleep, no energy or appetite, etc. I have them titrate him up to 15mg/day of anavar. Yes, anavar, even though it's 17aa and he has liver cancer. Guess what? He wasn't supposed to make it till his daughter's HS graduation in May, but yet he's still here and quite healthy, all things considered, in october, 7 months after being told he had a month or two to live. He WILL die though without a transplant, the anavar just prolongs his life and improves his quality of life by a large amount, which I think is worth it. There won't be any need for HPTA recovery when he's dead. Same with people getting 50mg/day of anadrol... they're getting it b/c of severe burns, or wasting diseases like AIDS, etc, HPTA recovery is the last thing on their minds, simply surviving is. And that's where steroids come in... they keep you alive, like it or not, and they keep you healthier than just about anything else. When I get my PharmD, I'm gonna start pushing for more AAS prescriptions to improve quality of life lol!

 

[VooDoo Chile]

Not too many docs know about PTC therapy anyway. But like Tux said, they're not too concerned with PTC. The doses are really low. I think the dosage for Test Prop. is like 100mg, once or twice a week. That dosage would bring a person with decreased test production back to a normal level.

 

[Ulter]

Yes that's it. They don't do PCT they taper the dose down slightly and you just come off. Keep in mind that anadrol is mainly used in women. And of course women don't need PCT. Oxandrolone is the drug of choice these days and there are two current studies being conducted, (sorry they have enough volunteers already), to get FDA approval for it as a cancer treatment. The reason that Oxandrolone looks so good to them is that you don't crash coming off of it at the therapeutic dose.