@greatestj You are welcome. Please understand that it's not a lethal disorder, but it does tend to degrade the heart over time if it is allowed to progress unchecked and if this means you spend more and more time in AF. The gold standard of care currently is a catheter ablation. They can stop the AF cold...not cure it...but stop it from happening, and that's absolutely the next best thing. The more a heart is experiencing AF, the worse it degrades over time...cardiomyopathy, mitral valve damage, and eventually 'heart failure', which is a horrible term and very misleading. An ablation stops the fibrillating mechanism from making the heart beat chaotically, and from there you can live with a huge sigh of relief. The person who performs this procedure is an 'electrophysiologist', and I would urge you to at least be acquainted with one or two of them via consultation.

Why do I go on about ablations? Because not everyone responds well to drugs, and sometimes not for long if they DO initially respond well and can tolerate them. The drugs have a way of losing their effect. I can explain more if you wish, but you should really begin to educate yourself about catheter ablations. Day surgery, you're home that night.