@wews don’t they monitor NSR during ablation?. Induce afib and keep ablating until cannot induce? Maybe a better EP?

@wews I found your experience very helpful and I wanted to tell you that I had my ablation on 11/24. On my 6 week follow-up, I had not had any A-fib episodes but the PACs that I thought I was experiencing fairly frequently are, in fact, premature supraventricular complexes! Now I have a new "diagnosis" and have traded one form of arrhythymia for another! The APRN was rather blase about this; she said it wasn't soon enough to call the ablation a "failure" which really did annoy me! I told her that my B/P was steadily going back up in the morning when I check it and shouldn't I possibly be back on Amlodipine (vs. Cardizem which is more for rate than for B/P control) and my pulse was still on the low side. She said that might help, BUT she couldn't order that; I had to go back to my medical cardiologist to get that ordered! Like when isn't a cardiologist a cardiologist! Needless to say, I was a little ticked! I am a nurse and I know how to advocate for myself, so I sent a message to my chart cardiologist and they did order the Amlodipine. At least I have no A-fib for now and the PVC's are not as annoying as PACs which I could feel every time; still, I am wondering if I would ever have another ablation unless I was really out of control. I had long months of no A-fib before the ablation and I thought this would cancel out my chances of it "spreading" but now I am about convinced that it is just because I am old and it doesn't much matter what I do to prevent these arrhythymias. I don't drink, smoke, have sleep apnea, exercise every day for 90 minutes, am at a low normal weight, eat right, take my meds, try to be positive, advocate for myself and still I have to deal with this variation in NSR about 30% of the time. I wish you luck with your results. I truly feel your frustration! I too found the recovery from the ablation was not bad, but I was bruised from knee to hip at the femoral vein sight and it took nearly 3 weeks for the bruising on my hands from the IV sites to disappear! Please let us know how you make out; I am anxious to hear what they tell you when you go back for a follow-up!