✅ Generic Name:
Verapamil Hydrochloride Tablet 80 mg
✅ Prescription Status:
Prescription-only medicine (Rx) – Must be prescribed and monitored by a healthcare professional.
📄 Description:
Verapamil 80 mg is a calcium channel blocker used to manage high blood pressure, angina (chest pain), and cardiac arrhythmias. It reduces the force and rate of heart contractions and relaxes blood vessels, leading to improved blood flow and decreased oxygen demand of the heart.
Each tablet contains 80 mg of Verapamil Hydrochloride.
🌿 Nature / Class:
- Pharmacological class: Calcium Channel Blocker (non-dihydropyridine, phenylalkylamine class)
- Therapeutic class: Antihypertensive, Antianginal, Antiarrhythmic
- Mechanism of action: Inhibits calcium ions from entering slow channels in vascular smooth muscle and myocardium, leading to vasodilation and reduced myocardial oxygen consumption.
🎯 Purpose / Indications:
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Chronic stable angina and variant angina
- Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (e.g., atrial fibrillation, PSVT)
- Migraine prophylaxis (off-label use)
- Sometimes used in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
✅ Advantages:
- Reliable control of blood pressure
- Effective in controlling heart rate in arrhythmias
- Reduces anginal pain and frequency of attacks
- Oral dosing allows convenient maintenance therapy
- Also available in sustained-release forms for once-daily use
📦 Common Packaging:
- Blister packs or strip packaging
- Typical pack sizes: 10 tablets per strip
- Box may contain 10, 30, or 100 tablets depending on manufacturer
- May be sold under brand names or generics (e.g., Calan, Isoptin)
❄️ Storage Conditions:
- Store at 15°C to 25°C (59°F to 77°F)
- Protect from light, moisture, and heat
- Keep out of reach of children
- Store in original container or blister until use
👨⚕️ Patient Advice / Precautions:
- Take exactly as prescribed, with food or shortly after meals
- Do not chew or crush extended-release tablets (if applicable)
- Avoid grapefruit juice – it increases blood levels of verapamil
- Report dizziness, bradycardia (slow heart rate), swelling, or constipation
- Use cautiously in elderly patients and those with liver disease
- May interact with beta-blockers, digoxin, or antiarrhythmic drugs
- Not recommended in heart failure, severe hypotension, or advanced AV block
- Inform your doctor if you are pregnant, planning pregnancy, or breastfeeding