Make your heart act up in what way?
I took zoloft for a short period of time. It made me sleepy. My mother-in-law has taken it for years and she says it helps her cope a lot.

Make it race or skip beats. I have a heart monitor on now from pvc's after my surgery. It's already skipping around.

assuming the dr knew about the heart, i'm sure would not give you anything that would harm more, you will feel better when you take this honey

Zoloft worked for me about two years. Great med. I had no problems.

I took zoloft for a while beginning of this year. I had bad side effects for about 2-3 weeks but after that it was a life saver. I rarely felt anxious while I was on it. My school insurance expired because I graduated from school but if I still had an insurance I would be taking it now. I didn't really have any heart problem with it. good luck

GREAT MED! NUFF SAID! :)

Deb, we all seem to jump to heart problems when we have anxiety. It is because it speeds up when we are anxious. Your meds, after about 3 weeks, should relieve a lot of your anxiety.

Well, it happened. I took only 1/2 of 25 mg. zoloft, sit straight up in the bed from sleep with my heart feeling like it was coming out of my chest! Had skipped beats after that for a while.

Please try it and let someone know that you are taking it.

I researched zoloft in some pharmalogical books I have and on the Pfizer website and none of them listed the med to cause any heart problems or complications. Ativan causes heart problems, arrhythmias, and possible heart attack but only when combined with the med haloperidol. Otherwise it has a low occurence of side effects. Hope this info helps you. Good Luck!!

Crying became one of the major reasons I needed to be medicated. Had been on cymbalta but, then started having sucicidial thoughts and, I am not willing to take my own life ever so, stopped taking it immediately. When I told Dr. symtoms he refused to prescribe anything else since, he said they all had the same effects. In going to a different dr.(was referred by family physician) and, when I told him that I cannot carry on a normal conversation he was writting out a script for zoloft. Newbie here so not sure how to reply to board yet not knowing a soul.

I've heard it can make the heart race, etc. But I wonder if that means it's dangerous? I think you could probably tell your doc your concern and then just let him monitor you fairly closely while you take it or increase the dose. You'll be fine if he's watching.