@methel Yes, the variability in AF management and experience is astounding. Some have one episode and then claim to be free of AF for the rest of their lives, where others begin to have more aggressive bouts of it lasting days, weeks, and then suddenly it stops. For a while. The anti-arrhythmic drugs do work well for some people...if they can tolerate them and their side-effects (if they have side effects...some patients don't notice any change except that their AF subsides). The literature is clear and universal (notwithstanding the claims of some popular book-writing cardiologists who talk about a 'cure' for AF): the disorder is progressive, and the longer one is in AF, the longer one tends to be in AF. AF begets AF. And the heart in AF begins to deteriorate over weeks and months. So, that is why the cardiologist field has begun to claim that a catheter ablation is the gold standard of care now....and to get an ablation early before the disorder progresses to more intractable stages.