This is just uneducated me, but I don't understand why some EPs insist their patients keep taking heart medications after an ablation. To me, they constitute a 'confound'. If the idea at some point is to just help the heart to remain calm in the first three weeks, okay, although to me the dosage should be halved. But to keep it open-ended, and on so many different drugs,....at what point will be want to know if the heart really is blocked from having ectopy or AF?? If it's to be the 12 week Holter, okay, but won't the drugs be suppressing any residual arrhythmia? I would say so. I say this because I find it frustrating when I see questions like yours. Maybe the drugs are what the problem is with feeling well. I don't know a lot about diltiazem, but metoprolol in a heart that HAS calmed, and is in NSR, is likely to put the rate well within the range of bradycardia, which generally causes some patient problems.

To address your question, most people feel a lot better within a few days, say a week, but many also take weeks until they feel better and secure about the success of their procedure. Some find that their heart rate is elevated, sometimes into the 80's and 90's, but still in happy NSR. And for them it might last for ten, twenty weeks. So, we're all different. But, if you are two weeks past an ablation that we all hope was a success, and you're still feeling unwell, especially if your resting HR is usually/often below 50 bpm, then your prescriptions might now be your heart's worst enemies. I think you should let your cardiologist know what's going on, maybe with a view to halving, and soon eliminating, most/all of the heart medications.

Just my opinion.