@domiha There is a way to do this that would ostensibly limit your anxiety....which I do NOT discount and feel you are quite right to want to address, Mike. You can adopt the PIP approach (pill-in-pocket) and pop an Eliquis if/once you are apprised by ANY means that you have had more than a very short and self-terminating run of AF. Whether this comes via a loop recorder and a call from your monitoring agency/doctor or whether you sense it because you are symptomatic, or whether your wearable device or Kardia mobile tells you that you have had/are in AF, you have as much as 48 hours to start the anti-coagulation.

Or, you can tell your cardiologist/EP that, all things considered, you would feel a lot better having the loop implanted AND continuing to take at least a month's supply of Eliquis while having no apparent AF, at which you would voluntarily/unilaterally cease taking the DOAC.