Stanozolol 10 mg

Stanozolol is a man-made medicine related to testosterone, the main male sex hormone, but altered so that its hormone effects are weaker. Your doctor has most likely prescribed it to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema — an inherited condition in which the face, hands, feet, gut or throat suddenly swell up. Stanozolol helps the body make more of a natural blood protein that is missing or faulty in this condition, which makes attacks less frequent and less severe. It is taken to prevent attacks; it does not treat an attack that has already started. It is a prescription medicine, chosen for your situation only.

Read this section before your first tablet, and make sure your doctor knows about your other conditions and medicines.

Warnings and precautions

• +Talk to your doctor before using it if you have any liver trouble. Stanozolol is altered so it survives being swallowed, and that makes it hard on the liver; long treatment can cause blood-filled spaces in the liver and, rarely, liver tumours. Your doctor will test your liver before you start and regularly afterwards, and may arrange a liver scan if you take it for a long time. Tell your doctor at once if your skin or eyes turn yellow, your urine goes dark, or you get pain in the upper right side of your stomach.
• +Your blood fats will be checked regularly. Stanozolol lowers your "good" cholesterol a great deal and this matters if you are on it for years, so your doctor will keep an eye on your heart risk.
• +Even while taking stanozolol you can still have an attack of swelling. Make sure you know your emergency plan, keep any rescue treatment with you, and get help immediately if your tongue or throat begins to swell or your voice changes.
• +Talk to your doctor before using it if you have high blood pressure, heart failure or kidney disease, because this medicine makes the body hold salt and water.
• +Women taking this medicine need to watch for a deepening voice, extra hair on the face or body, changes in periods or enlargement of the clitoris, and tell the doctor as soon as any of these begin — they can become permanent. Your doctor will use the lowest amount that keeps your attacks under control.
• +If this medicine is for a child, bone growth will be checked with X-rays, because it can make the bones stop growing too early and reduce final adult height.
• +Never take this medicine to build muscle or improve sporting performance, and never share it with anyone else.

Other medicines and Stanozolol

Tell your doctor or pharmacist about all other medicines you take, including anything bought over the counter and herbal products. It especially matters with: blood-thinning medicines such as warfarin, because stanozolol strongly increases their effect and can cause dangerous bleeding, so your doctor will lower the dose and check your clotting tests more often; medicines for diabetes, including insulin, because your blood sugar may fall; and steroid tablets such as prednisolone, which cause more swelling when taken alongside this medicine. Tell your doctor if you take a medicine containing oestrogen, such as the combined contraceptive pill or hormone replacement therapy, as these can make attacks of swelling worse.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding and fertility

Do not take this medicine if you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant. It can seriously harm an unborn baby, in particular the sexual development of a baby girl. If you could become pregnant, use a reliable method of contraception and discuss with your doctor which one suits you, since some hormone contraceptives can make your condition worse. Do not breastfeed while taking this medicine. In men, it can reduce the number of sperm you produce.

Driving and using machines

Stanozolol is not expected to affect your ability to drive or use tools and machines. If you get headaches, feel dizzy or sleep badly, wait until you feel normal again before driving or using machines.

Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you; check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure. Swallow the tablets whole with a glass of water. Your doctor decides how many tablets you take and how often, and will usually reduce the amount over time to the smallest that still keeps your attacks away; this is written on your pharmacy label and you must not change it yourself. Keep taking it even when you feel well, because it works by preventing attacks. If you forget a dose, take it when you remember unless the next one is nearly due, in which case skip the missed dose; never take a double dose. Do not stop without talking to your doctor, as attacks may return. If you take too many tablets, contact your doctor or your nearest hospital and take the carton with you.

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

Other possible side effects

• +acne and oily skin
• +difficulty sleeping
• +headache
• +swollen ankles or feet from holding water
• +feeling sick or stomach discomfort
• +mood changes, irritability or restlessness
• +hair loss or thinning of the scalp hair
• +in women: deeper voice, extra facial and body hair, irregular or absent periods, enlarged clitoris
• +in men: more frequent erections, smaller testicles, fewer sperm
• +changes in liver blood tests and a fall in "good" cholesterol

Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children. Store below 25 °C in the original blister or container, protected from light and damp. Do not use this medicine after the expiry date printed on the carton and blister; the expiry date is the last day of that month. Do not use a tablet if the blister is torn or the tablet is broken or discoloured. Do not throw medicines away down the toilet or with household rubbish — return anything you no longer need to your pharmacist.

The active substance is stanozolol. The strength of your tablets, in milligrams, is printed on the carton and on the blister. The other ingredients are lactose, maize starch, povidone, sodium starch glycolate, magnesium stearate and colloidal silica; the complete list is on your carton, which matters if you have been told you cannot tolerate certain sugars. The tablets are white, round, uncoated and scored on one face so they can be divided if your doctor asks you to. They come in aluminium blister strips inside a carton, or in bulk containers, in pack sizes from 10 to 100 tablets; not all pack sizes may be available in your country. Every carton carries a printed verification code and a GS1 DataMatrix square, which can be checked at ergopharm.net/verify to confirm the pack is genuine. Manufactured under GMP conditions by Ergopharm, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.