I personally do not agree that AF is a progressive disorder. I believe it probably is if you do not stop all the triggers.

I had it real bad for 7 years in my teens. It was due to bein EXTREMELY sensitive to caffeine. At 76, I was having minor incidents that were becoming more often. I read that heart problems can be due to insufficient water drinking. Most of my life, I drank very little. My mother didn't drink water either and had alzheimers real bad for 8 years. After reading that heart problems can be related to dehydration, I made a commitment to drink water. I began Jan 1st. They kept diminishing and have not had even short episodes in about one week. Before that lasted only a very few seconds.

If it was true that it is a progressive disorder, I would have been gone years ago. And they would have gotten worse even though I was drinking more water, but they haven't.