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well we had a long talk, and based on the 18 and 24 afib hour episodes that occurred 20 days apart in the first six weeks ,and that also included pacs which I fortunately captured on my Kardia, we decided to do a "clean up" second ablation, after only 2 months...all the evidence points to gaps..even the fact the the meds I was taking did not seem to help....and we will use the opportunity to ablate the pacs also...... while disappointed, expectation of outcome is 95% positive. going with the same doc as he is quite familiar with my case and the actions from the first ablation. he says if all goes well will be a relatively short session, as he has to only seek out the gaps and ablate the pvc"s..crossing my fingers and toes this will work....wonder if anyone took this route...eg do second ablation after 60 days with same doc...
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@kai Sounds like you had a great apointment and yes i have had a sooner one when my Doctor could not get to an area he wanted too. It was an unreachable area and he wanted to try an external one. Thats where they go to the outside of the heart and in my case it was not successful. But realize that is the exception not the rule and because of that i ended up getting evaluated and receiving a new Heart. Please know this that helped me anyway, to know for sure what my course of action was so now i see that as a positive. But either way that one was actually the next day so they were only about 30 hours apart. I only mentioned the 3 months as that is the normal i was told by them.
So it sounds like your discussion with the Doctor was successful and i like hearing that he is only going to address the current issues. So i think you can rest at ease.
By the fact you both came to this agreement tells me he sound like a great Doctor. I also had my first 2 ablations with the same doctor and the second was very successful since he already knew me and he also was not what i would call an aggressive doctor in that he is only doing what's necessary . Did you decide on a date yet? I look forward to hearing how it goes.
Have an awesome Blessed Day
Dana