That procedure of ablation to treat heart failure worked for me back in 2015. The scariest part was hearing the term
‘heart failure’. I later learned that is a description of a condition due to an event, it does not mean my heart will remain in ‘failure’ mode forever. I recovered quite well, but established a new normal baseline, where it is now a common and non-urgent matter for me to feel a little pressure in the heart area from time to time.
I never knew I had atrial fibrillation until I had an ablation and didn’t have it anymore. For years, doctors or their nurses would say something just happened during my checkups. They’d do an EKG and say, “never mind”. When I moved to Texas, they caught it right away and didn’t blow it off. They’d ask me different questions and want me to keep track of when I went into atrial fibrillation. I told them I couldn’t tell. They’d get so frustrated with me. But like the nurse told me after my ablation, sometimes you don’t know you have a problem until you don’t have it anymore. I had mine in 2019. I recommend an ablation to anyone who suffers from atrial fibrillation.