Thank you for responding. I did have the ablation. Recovery is coming along; but slower than I expected. I've experienced my heart skipping beats for several hours on a couple of occasions. Is that something you experienced after either of your procedures?

I had atrial flutter in 5/2011 and they did an ablation and installed a defib pacemaker (ICD) Worked great until came time to replace generator in it. It zapped me, didn't hurt , just made my whole body jump in place while standing next to hubby. Thank God we both had EMS training. I scared him half to death. LOL He has 30yrs in EMS, me, only 8 on the streets of a bad city. Anyway, just got new ICD, and now have atrial fib. Go figure, but cardio says I don't need ablation and put me on warfarin and stronger diuretics and anti arrhythmia med. Doing great now.

Yes I still get palpitations but it stopped my heart from racing away touch wood that don't happen to me again .

This is my experience with my very first Catheter ablation. Leadup to the procedure I was in Urgent care for a cough that would not go away. I got covid and seen a dr and said just ride it out only go to ER if trouble breathing ect. Went to Urgent and they said I had irregular heartbeat. That was never noted by the previous dr. So went to ER per the Urgent care instructions Got there and they had called ahead. I was in the back being hooked up to every machine, EKG IV and other cardiac related stuff in a matter of 30 mins. I went in checked in got vitals and then ekg during that time. My heart rate was 177. I was discharged 24 hrs later and saw a cardiologist 7 days later. I was diagnosed with AFIB and put thru a myriad of tests treatments and one of them being Amidarone...That stuff made my hair fall out and thin out really bad. So that did not work. Met with Electrophysiologist to schedule ablation. He was very popular and backed up 2 months for surgery so we do surgery in September 8 2022. I go in and do the preop and all is fine and I come to hearing them talking and the radio saying Queen Elizabeth had passed. Then my nurse said open your eyes and I cant so he opens for me and says you had a scary moment on the table but we got you back. Well it turned out that during the procedure the Dr while removing the chaotic signals...well Stopped all signals and I went into Sudden Cardiac Arrest. They placed me with a Temporary Pacemaker and installed permanent one next day. They had me intubated and all that because having to do CPR ect on me. When I finally got the tube out and was able to talk they began asking if I had ever had a heart attack before I said NO. All the tests you have done would have shown if that was the case so they never knew why this happened. I was the first case of my dr that had this happen and he is a really good Dr. He invented the mapping system for Ablation surgery. He is also a training dr around the world so.. Anyways that was Sept 8 2022 I left ICU and headed to CCU then home after 5 days and have been fine ever since.. No further issues and everything test wise came back normal so I am not sure what happened if it was related to Anesthesia or what but Im fine. went back to work and have recently as of Oct went on a 10.5 hr flight to the UK and back. Loved my trip. The surgery has given me my life back..literally and some. Before ablation . I could not do anything because it shot my heart rate ridiculously high. Walking 10 feet put me out of breath so.YES its worth it.

I had multiple (10+) cardioversions in 2018 for afib and none worked more than 48 hours. Tykosyn helped slow it down so next was the ablation with 3d mapping. A four and a half hour procedure that did the trick. I have less than 1% afib status, no side effects and no complications whatsoever from the procedure. Spent the night for observation with no pain.