Zoloft and heart palpitations??

Posted By Todd on November 04, 1998 at 09:35:01:







Hello.  About a week ago, I started taking Zoloft in order to treat my anxiety attacks (anxiety disorder) and my depression.  However, a day after I started taking the medicine, I noticed my heart would skip beats very suddenly and usually would not skip more than twice.  This is very scary to me.  I am a 16 year old boy with no history of any heart problems of any kind.  However I did go to to Children's hospital in Cincinnati where they did an EKG and a stress test in order to see if I had an irregular heart beat, because I was having some problems with exercising and a rapid heart beat/palpitations prior to going on the Zoloft for anxiety.  It has been almost 6 weeks since those tests were done and I have not heard anything from them, but usually that means everything is ok, or does it? (actually my EKG came back perfect).  
I guess my main question is, is Zoloft associated with heart palpitations and how serious can they be (life threatening?).    And also, were the tests I had done good ones in order to rule out any underlying condition that may lead to a serious heart arrythmia/cardiac arrest, while exercising or at rest (I mainly have my palpitations AFTER I run)?  
Thank you so much for your time in answering this question.
Todd

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