First cycle won’t notice much on that dosage … slight strength . My wife did 10 mgs for 6 weeks gained 30 lbs on bench press

Short answer is yes. 5 mg is enough. Especially if this is the first experience of AAS for you. Long answer depends on your goals. Consider:

It will augment the work and dietary habits you adopt alongside it, and hopefully have adopted permanently. I would say the more important question is whether your Var is 100% authentic and dosed in the amount it is advertised. Choose to start either 2-3 days before your menstrual period begins or the 3rd or fourth day after it’s started but before it has completed - this will minimize the effect anavar will have on your cycle generally, but expect some delay or a shortening of the next period, but by then you’ll be about off this drug if you’re doing the typical 5 week run with the anavar. If you’re doing more weeks definitely keep an eye on your mileage as it will absolutely impact your definition and lean muscle mass but if you’re over training or not working out according to schedule for whatever reason at some point beyond 4 weeks, then I’d say just stop the var and wait a month or two and do another short 4-5 weeks when you are ready to put the full training in. Think of the lifestyle factor that go into your body composition and know anavar will greatly potentate their effect. It will also work some without any work from you but the risks aren’t worth the gains in this case, and you’ll get far less benefits anyway.

It’s okay to go up to 20mg but 10mg is adequate for 90% of women using anavar for their purposes. I’d say judge the effects after a couple days and see if you respond okay with the burden on your body physically, first. Surely, by the end of the first week at 5mg you should notice your strength has improved fairly significantly. If you aren’t sure it’s doing much increase to 10mg for your second week and stay there for the duration (ideally, 5 weeks imo but 8 would be a maximum for your first go at this.).

Generally, for women, by the end of the first week you will notice strength is noticeably greater. Two weeks in and the vascular effects will be evident as well. Three weeks will yield more of the same but the muscle building effects should begin to be noticeable, and by the fourth week they should be undeniably apparent. By the end of week five you’ll see the full results showing up but not to the full extent possible.

Certainly you could discontinue at that fifth week or at the end of six. There’s not much more it’s gonna show you past this point, though if you push the cycle duration to a maximum of 8-10 weeks (depending on your experience using this drug), it will give more of the same - greater definition, fat reduction, and enhanced lean body mass, as well as higher intensity of any side effects.

I’d say there’s no new effects past week 5 for women, so you could enhance the effects with a longer duration or dose but the only new effects to expect are virilization or other emergent side effects. This is a low risk in general but it is rapid if it occurs. The first cycle of anavar for women is important to assess your own risks and response to the drug. Future cycles can be more liberal with dosing or duration, provided there’s an adequate time between cycles to normalize your system and return to the body’s baseline.