@chickenfarmer Regrettably, this is true; most ablation success stories have an ending. For some, it's soon after the Holter assessment where one is given the all-clear, and some lucky sods get ten years or more, and they even die of something entirely unrelated to their cardiac history. As you must know, and I certainly do, even one full year free of the dreaded symptoms and anxiety makes a single day in the cath lab and recovery worth it. It's far better than letting 'er rip and then possibly coming up against mitral valve prolapse or heart failure, which the literature says are two possible outcomes of unmanageable AF.