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

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

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

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

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

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

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