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Yes, don't you just hate it when the only reason for your A-fib is "being old." And then the line "but A-fib isn't going to kill you." Well, guess what, it isn't improving my life much! I can't drink more than one cup of 1/2 caf, no alcohol, no tonic water, no chocolate, no "excessive" exercise, lose weight, no heavy meals, no extra salt, no bad sleep habits, take a crap-load of meds, no "stress" as if walking on eggshells waiting for the next episode to pop up isn't stressful! I absolutely hate this condition and I am doing everything I can to get an ablation with the hope that it will arrest this demon before I go crazy.
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Unfortunately surving one ailment only leads to battling another. All the meds and imaging and procedures often just prod another sleeping or newly formed ailment to the surface.
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You pretty much mirror my feelings about Afib. I got the same talk from my cardiologist and primary care provider. When they told me that a lot of people live with Afib I just told them that I am not a lot of people. I like to fix things when they are broken not just cover them up and hope they don't get worse. You are the patient and this is your body. I went around my cardiologist and PC and contacted a hospital that does the pulse field ablation and set up everything on my own. PFA was successful and now the stress level is back where it should be.