@todd1968 You will lose nothing by seeking a really good EP for a consultation. The idea is to get the ablation before you progress/if you are progressing to more advanced stages of AF with its attendant unhealthy changes to the heart.

Ablations have been undergone successfully for millions by now, and they have been doing them for at least 20 years, with improvements all the time. It has an exceedingly low risk of complications in the right surgery/right EP. If by chance yours is not successful, you still have two options: try again (I did, with the same EP, and he succeeded in ridding me of the AF, now going on 31 months!) or resume the drug regimen.

I hasten to add that I am not a health expert by any means. I am just a semi-educated reader and watcher of sometimes technical videos about cardiac electrophysiology, arrhythmias, and their treatment (although I know much more about AF than I do the other typical arrhythmias). My point in reaching out to you is that, in my uneducated opinion, you risk of developing eventual toxicity or just systemic intolerance to amiodarone is many times higher than is the risk for a single attempt at ablating the disordered tissue, wherever it happens to be in your case. Just something to chew on.

Todd1968….. in Arizona they put you in the hospital. They don’t just put you on that drug… Ablation is always a better choice before taking the drugs… Sometimes ablations don’t work and at that point you need to look for something else… Good luck to you.