Oxandrolone

Name: Oxandrolone Drug Interactions
Creator: Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS

20 interactions 107 cited references

Also sold as: Oxandrin Oxandrin®

About Oxandrolone

Oxandrolone is used with a diet program to cause weight gain in people who have lost too much weight due to surgery, injury, chronic (long-lasting) infections, trauma, or who are underweight for unknown reasons. Oxandrolone is also used to treat bone pain in people with osteoporosis (a condition in which the bones beco… Read the full Oxandrolone drug information page →

Medically reviewed by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS · Updated Aug 9, 2026 · Editorial policy · Data sources

Sources: FDA prescribing information (Structured Product Labeling), the published literature cited in each entry, DDInter 2.0 (a major open-access drug-interaction database), and legacy DrugBank interaction data distributed by the NIH's RxNav service (decommissioned in 2024) — analyzed and reviewed by our pharmacist team. How we build this library →

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1 Contraindicated 17 Major 2 Moderate

All (20) Contraindicated (1) Major (17) Moderate (2)

Moderate

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