@greatestj By no means! I know people who have gone years, sometimes as many as 18 before they needed a touchup. The criterion for a 'successful' ablation is one full year from the date of treatment with no obvious, symptomatic, or detectable arrhythmia. You could be on a gurney, grey, and with full-blown AF the day after your anniversary date and it would still count as a successful ablation. I'm sure many would rather it were closer to two or three years since I see so many posting who say they've just passed their third anniversary and they've begun to experience more ectopy. I would be grateful for three years free of the symptoms, and that is exactly where I am as of two days ago...three years.

Strictly on the basis of probability, and only on that count (because as individuals we are all on separate 'journeys' with our arrhythmia), I get a sense that most ablations have a 'best before' date around three years, or maybe not 'most' but 'many'. Speaking only for myself, with how I felt when in AF, I would have been very happy to learn I was going to have a full year free of it. Three years is a real boon....to me. I expect my heart to encounter AF again in the future, and am prepared for that eventuality...with a little dread. I hope that my EP, or another, will look at my file and agree that they'll ablate another wall or two on my left atrium's inner reaches and see if they can't buy me another three years.