I had my first AFIB a couple of years ago and landed in the ICU. Now I'm on a blood thinner Xarelto 20 mg, which the Doctor wants me to keep taking, even though I have only had a few episodes since. I also have to take 1 Flecainide 50 mg. every morning and 1 Metoprolol 25 mg every night. When I have an AFIB episode, I have to take 1 Metoprolol 25 mg. wait 5 minutes and take 1 Flecainide 50 mg. wait 1 hour and take another Flecainide 50 mg. If still in AFIB after 30 minutes more I'm supposed to go to the hospital, but so far this has worked for me. I live in a very rural area and health care is not the best. It is hard to get an appointment with my heart doctor. It usually takes a year to see him, but he has an assistant that I can see when I have a problem. I went through a period of having my BP drop when I exercise and she tried to change some of my meds after 3 visits she told me just leave things alone and send her an email with my BP readings, which I do not like doing.