Thanks fellas, appreciate the advice. My supplier has offered what seems like a reasonable price for Oxandrolone, so I've asked him to get a bottle (although he didn't know if the 200-tablet bottle had 10mg or 5mg doses, which makes like a HUGE difference). I'll give it a go, probably at a 20mg dose for a few weeks after coming off, and see how I get on.
I know what you mean about being sensible and taking the time completely off after my cycle but, hey, if we were all totally sensible we wouldn't be on this steroid users' site at all, would we? Sometimes, I reckon, there's an acceptable 'risk', and this for me falls into that category. Reading up further on Anavar on a respected roid site, I found the following:
"Anavar will not totally shut down your HPTA, especially at lower doses (unlike testosterone, which will eventually do this even at a 100mg dose, or deca which will do it with a single 100mg dose). This could be due, at least partly, to the fact that Anavar doesn´t aromatize (convert to estrogen).
Serum testosterone, SHBG (Sex Hormone Binding Globulin), and LH (Leutinizing Hormone) will be slightly suppressed with low doses of Anavar, but less than with other compounds. FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) , IGF1 (Insulin Like Growth Factor 1) and GH (Growth Hormone) will not be suppressed with a low dose of Anavar, but will actually be raised significantly (12)(13)(14) as you may have guessed, and LH will even experience a "rebound" effect when you stop using anavar (3) If your endocrine system and HPTA are funtioning normally, you should be able to use anavar with minimal insult to it, and can even keep most of your values within the normal range."
Doesn't sound too bad to me.