@californiazebra Yes, and it's the same with prostate cancer. The patient is highly more likely to die in a road accident, falling down stairs, or from a bad case of food poisoning than they are to die from prostate cancer. AF is the same. It's hellish for some, quite tolerable for others, and some don't find out they have AF until someone with training looks at them wide-eyed and asks, 'Do you have AF? You're fibrillating right now.' Who knew!?

Once again, though, the sober reality is that uncontrolled/unmanaged AF will cause degradation in heart structure and in heart function over many months or a few years. So, unless someone just doesn't care, it's best dealt with sooner rather than later because the success rates of the various 'remedies' (there is no 'cure' for AF, just palliative management, and this includes ablations) falls as the complexity and advancement of the disorder progresses.