My personal belief is that you need to fix the problem and not work to control the results of the problem. I like to use the analogy of putting buckets on the floor to catch water that is leaking through the roof when it rains. The floor is kept dry and all you need to do is keep emptying the buckets until it stops raining. But then it starts raining again and you are back to the buckets. Maybe it is time for a new roof or at a minimum a patch over the leaks.

As this relates to AFIB, you can take Eliquis and metoprolol or some other drugs to alleviate the impact of AFIB or you can do as other (and me in the very near future) and go the ablation route (actually the Pulse Field Ablation route) which should eliminate the majority of the issues that trigger AFIB.

It is all in how you personally want to deal with AFIB.