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We don’t always have a choice regarding surgery. My 4 hour surgery was due to cancer. My afib has been progressing for 5 years being in afib 30% of the time in recent months. I’m very symptomatic so those are lost days with exhaustion and very low BP causing me to be weak and faint. I don’t want to waste 30% of my life or have a stroke. I finally started Eliquis after that last TIA. I’ve had a lot of bad side effects to meds so I say no if at all optional. The 1st EP told me my case would take 2-3 ablations and no guarantee. He handles complex cases. I’m hoping for a better prediction with the second complex case EP I’m hoping will take my case. I recently stopped taking a cancer med that started the afib so I’m hoping the number of episodes will decrease without that x factor. We’ll see. I just had a 42 hour episode so I know it won’t stop completely.