I'm so sorry since l also had pericarditis after having a PFA. It was
painful, I stayed in hospital extra days and was on medication for a week.
It certainly was not a bounce back recovery like PFAs appear to be touted.
My electrophysiologist was an excellent physician and his heart hospital
had been chosen to participate in trial PFAs. My opinion is that this
procedure is still new to our country and is in need of more evaluation and
testing. In retrospect l wish that l had gone to Mayo Clinic because l
believe they have taken a more cautious, collaborative, and guarded
approach to PFA. Please take your time in healing after pericarditis and
the procedure itself. It took several weeks for me to start feeling better
and less tired.

@neel Thank you for asking - I am doing much better. I was on triple therapy and I am now almost off prednisone - .25 mg this upcoming week and then done. Then I taper off naproxen and then taper off the PPI and finally colchicine. I hope that it does not come back. I've researched this so much over the last year! I can't believe a year of my. life has been dealing with this but here I am. Europe gives colchicine a couple weeks before ablations and heart surgery and it shows a lot of promise in helping tamp down inflammation that can cause pericarditis. I wish I'd know that ahead of time - I would have asked to be put on it. And of course hindsight - but if they'd given me ibuprofen instead of Tylenol which does nothing for inflammation - I may have been just fine. But who knows. Water under the bridge. I hope to never have any kind of surgery again but if I do - most likely will head to Mayo, even though my electrophysiologist was the best, head of the department, excellent track record. She'd never had this happen to any of her patients. But I am doing much better, back to teaching my exercise classes and trying not to get nervous when I feel a twinge.....Best to you as you recover!