@diane987654321 As I have said repeatedly, the chances are that any one successful ablation is time-limited. I frequent several fora where heart health, especially tachyarrhythmias, are discussed by people who need to talk about their experience. Time-after-time a person says they had an ablation in 2017, and now they're experiencing AF again. An inquiring mind would ask, 'How did it go between 2017 and now? Then answer, for the huge majority, would be' Amazing! I was able to live normally again. No anxiety, no waking up with a pounding heart, able to hike 'n bike...' But they have all come back to report that they are once again in AF. This is NOT universally true...some people can have a simple cardioversion and never have a lick of arrhythmia again before their funeral. But for me, and the rest of We The Great Unwashed, we should probably prepare ourselves for another ablation. It might be two years....only...or it might be twenty. I'm a month over three years now, blissfully living free of AF. But I keep reminding myself that there will probably come a day....a day when that familiar swelling in the chest comes back and I feel the thumps. I won't be happy (who would?!?), but at least there is the possibility of a repeat ablation. As I post here often, I know two people, one female, one male, who have had at least six ablations until a bright bulb finally figured out how to stop their AF. And philosophically, wouldn't it be worth a whole year free of AF, if that's all you could get...for some of us, those of us who are highly symptomatic and who feel well and truly miserable when in AF?