@domiha -Mike, I, like you, perhaps, sometimes panic! The first time I had a paroxysmal a-fib episode, where I felt my heart move, like a fish out if water, seemingly, I initially panicked. Then I checked my smart watch, that alerted me to the episode, and got an ecg reading, therefore recording the episode. Starting to feel faint, I woke my wife up, told her, briefly, and pushed the button on my smartwatch where it sent out the 911 call, and since the fire dept. ambulance is only a few blocks away, from my house, I soon heard the sirens. Anyway, after going through a ‘button’ monitor time, attached to my chest, for a couple weeks, where I had more a-fib episodes, I was diagnosed. Then, after a couple months, I had some troubling neurological symptoms! My new neurologist had an MRI taken, of my brain, and it revealed that I had had 2 lacunar strokes,- one old one, and a recent one. So, my neurologist called my cardiologist immediately, that afternoon. An appointment with a cardiologist was set up for me, the next morning. At that appointment, it was decided that I should be put on Eloquis! 3 months later, I am still on Eloquis! However, in the meantime, talking to my Cardiac Electrophysiologist, it was decided that I could benefit from having ‘The Watchman’ heart implant, which could reduce my chance of having further strokes, from small clots. So, a couple weeks ago, I had ‘The Watchman’ implanted, and the procedure went well! In a couple weeks, I will be checked, to make sure that the implant is secure. Should that go well, than they will take me off Eloquis, and put me on, I believe, Plavix, for about 6 months, then only baby aspirin the rest of my life! So, I believe that going off Eloquis, more than likely, is a tapered action, by the Doctor’s, for their patients.