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

Expert advice for Ivabrad Tablet
Your doctor has prescribed Ivabrad to treat heart diseases, especially heart failure or angina (chest pain). Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad.  Monitor your heart rate when taking Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad used for?
Ivabrad is a heart medicine used in adult patients to treat symptomatic stable angina pectoris (chest pain) and chronic heart failure.

Q. How does Ivabrad 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. Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad helps to improve the heart functioning and survival in these patients

Q. How does Ivabrad reduce angina?
Angina is a heart disease which happens when the heart does not receive enough oxygen. Ivabrad 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, Ivabrad helps to control and reduce the number of angina attacks.

Q. Does Ivabrad lower blood pressure?
Ivabrad can lower blood pressure, although it is an uncommon side effect. Uncontrolled blood pressure is a common side effect of Ivabrad. Please consult your doctor before taking Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad cause long QT interval?
Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad a beta blocker?
Ivabrad is not a beta blocker. Ivabrad 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 Ivabrad safe?
Ivabrad is safe if used at prescribed doses for the prescribed duration as advised by the doctor.

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

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