@gloaming I should add one sobering thought (sorry): the literature I have seen suggests that you want the odd bit of ectopy or AF to happen in the first four-to-six weeks of the blanking period. If you go much beyond that, say near the end of the blanking period, no recurring AF or ectopy, but suddenly in Week Nine you get a long run of AF.....that's not a good sign. Again, you want the 'blips' early, not later in the blanking period. Events happening later suggest a poorer prognosis.

That sober fact said, I have seen numerous personal accounts posted here and on other health fora by people saying they had a lot of ectopy and AF for months and months, and had given up on their ablation and their EP. But, one day, a year later, they realize they haven't had any arrhythmia for weeks! After many more weeks free of AF, they begin to realize they needed more time to settle and that their EP did the ablation properly.

So, we all must trudge along a path toward resolution, whatever the end-state is to be. Some will have a breeze of it and go on to never have AF again. Some endure repeated ablations, and none seem to work (remember, the skill and the experience of the EP is probably the single most important determinant of success, not the technology or method of delivery, such as radio frequency versus pulsed field).

Lastly, I know of several people who have had five/six ablations until they saw the right 'guy' or 'gal' who stopped their arrhythmia. Don't feel tied to one EP, especially if they've had two cracks at you and you're still fibrillating. Find another EP. The two best I know, if you have the means and the motivation, are Dr. Andrea Natale at Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute in Austin, and Dr. Pasquale Santangeli at Cleveland Clinic.