Common Slow heart rate, Headache, Luminous phenomena (Enhanced brightness), Increased blood pressure.

Expert advice for Ivazine Tablet
Your doctor has prescribed Ivazine to treat heart diseases, especially heart failure or angina (chest pain). Ivazine must be taken with food. Notify your doctor if you have a feeling of a heartbeat (palpitations), chest pressure, or shortness of breath. These could be symptoms of an irregular heartbeat caused by Ivazine.  Monitor your heart rate when taking Ivazine as low heart rate is a common side effect. Inform your doctor if you experience symptoms of low heart rate such as dizziness, tiredness, low energy. Monitor your blood pressure when taking Ivazine as it can increase your blood pressure. You may experience temporary changes in your vision such as enhanced visual brightness due to sudden changes in light intensity. These changes may occur within the initial 2 months of treatment and should gradually go away.

Q. What is Ivazine used for?
Ivazine is a heart medicine used in adult patients to treat symptomatic stable angina pectoris (chest pain) and chronic heart failure.

Q. How does Ivazine work in heart failure?
Chronic heart failure is a heart disease which happens when your heart cannot pump enough blood to the rest of your body. Ivazine mainly works by reducing the heart rate a few beats per minute. As increased heart rate affects the heart functioning in patients with chronic heart failure, the specific heart rate lowering action of Ivazine helps to improve the heart functioning and survival in these patients

Q. How does Ivazine reduce angina?
Angina is a heart disease which happens when the heart does not receive enough oxygen. Ivazine mainly works by reducing the heart rate a few beats per minute. This lowers the work of heart and heart's need for oxygen especially in the situations when an angina attack is more likely to happen. In this way, Ivazine helps to control and reduce the number of angina attacks.

Q. Does Ivazine lower blood pressure?
Ivazine can lower blood pressure, although it is an uncommon side effect. Uncontrolled blood pressure is a common side effect of Ivazine. Please consult your doctor before taking Ivazine if you suffer from mild to moderate low blood pressure or if you suffer from uncontrolled blood pressure, especially after a change in your treatment for blood pressure.

Q. Does Ivazine cause long QT interval?
Ivazine causes a decrease in heart rate which may cause QT prolongation, giving rise to severe arrhythmias (condition in which the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm) especially torsades de pointes.

Q. Is Ivazine a beta blocker?
Ivazine is not a beta blocker. Ivazine lowers heart rate by inhibition of the cardiac pacemaker funny (If) current that regulates heart rate, a mechanism different from that of beta blockers.

Q. Is Ivazine safe?
Ivazine is safe if used at prescribed doses for the prescribed duration as advised by the doctor.

Q. Is Ivazine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved?
Yes, Ivazine is approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Q. Is Ivazine a calcium channel blocker?
Ivazine is not a calcium channel blocker. Ivazine lowers heart rate by inhibition of the cardiac pacemaker funny (If) current that regulates heart rate.