Hard part for me is trusting my cardiologist and believing if they are "doctoring" or being pharmaceutical salesmen. Eliquis is expensive and there are additional side effects if you are Diabetic. I had AFIB once at the same time I had Covid and no signs of it after wearing a Holter monitor for over 2 weeks. Went through all the heart and stress tests and all those turned out okay. Yet the cardiologist shared that one known episode of AFIB means you are AFIB. After I shared that I didn't want to be on Eliquis due to side effects, he shared that basically I was playing "Russian Roulette" and to find another cardiologist. I'm looking for another cardiologist.

Well if you look at the scoring method they use to determine who should be on an DOAC it's pretty much anyone over 70, with hypertension and any cardio disease. If you score a 2 and at that age it's not hard to do, yep your a candidate.