Hi @marymcadams:

I can relate my experience with an ablation, but it sounds like yours is a quite different experience. I would encourage you to follow up with the suggestions Rebecca and Colleen have put forward and get to a heart clinic where there are specialists in your particular field.

That said, my experience is from having a single ablation attempt (unsuccessful) about a year and a half ago. The duration was about half of what you had to endure or about 5 hours. The docs then changed my BP med to Cartia and I have only had three episodes since then. Two were very mild but a somewhat more serious episode occurred when I was weak from pneumonia and was hooked up to an EKG in the hospital ER. Fortunate that. I already had an IV going so they quickly pumped in some adenosine to bring things under control.

Because of the frequency of your events, you really should get yourself a referral to the best heart clinic with top notch electrophysiology specialists that you can reasonably get to as soon as you can. I'm sure Colleen and Rebecca could help you find such a clinic that is close to wherever you are located.

Good luck.