@kathysavage1954 When you describe 'skipped beats', that is often not AF but PACs, or 'premature atrial contractions.' They are everywhere, all people, daily. Everybody has 1-30 each day. It's when they become intrusive, with what is called their 'burden', and they run thousands of times each day, and begin to degrade your quality of life, that an electrophysiologist would agree to try to stop them via an ablation procedure. Those more stoic, who endure silently, are unknown to those offering help. So, the squawking patient gets the time in their office and in their cath lab a few weeks later. 😀

PACs often signal an eventual onset of AF. People routinely begin to complain of 'skipped beats', or strong thumps in their chest after a pause, and this is typical of PACs. Many will eventually find themselves in full-blown AF and need an ablation, but so will those whose 'burden' of PACs runs higher than about 3-7% of their daily average, across humans, of about 84,000 beats. The literature I have read says that it is at the 3% rate that morbidity rises markedly. We don't know what your total is per diem, but it might be worth finding out. But the bottom line is, if you are willing to suffer in silence, nobody is the wiser who could help you.