Hi Everyone,
I am not going to lie, this is a post that I am slightly scared to make and it is a sensitive topic to me right now. Before I talk about my upcoming ablation, I want to give some backstory about myself with afib.
I have never had a heart problem in my life, and I am honestly very healthy and I have no vices. In 2021 (when I was 21), I went to bed one night and I woke up feeling like my heart was beating out of my chest. Turns out I went into afib, out of nowhere, and was in afib until they put me under for a cardioversion where I actually converted to sinus rhythm before getting any kind of shock.
I did not have afib at all again until 2022 (about a year later) where I was working out and felt myself slip into afib. I was in afib until the next morning when they used medicine to pop me into sinus rhythm.
I was afib free up until April 6, 2026 when I went from the middle of my sleep to a high adrenaline situation, and for the first time in 4 years I went into afib again. Medicine was used again.
Then on April 29th, 2026 I went into afib from another high adrenaline situation again, where I converted myself in about half an hour.
I now have an a plan to get an ablation scheduled and done probably around the beginning of June time and I know it is the right thing to do and the percentages are very favorable for basically eliminating or controlling my afib episodes as a whole.
I know I do not live in afib, and I have had 4 episodes in ~5 years and I have only ever taken medicine while I am in afib, but it nonetheless scary to me and feels awful when my heart feels like a bag of popcorn. I was just wondering if there was anyone else who was in a similar situation that had an ablation and what the other side of that looks like. My EP is an awesome guy and he is super confident about controlling my afib, but I just want to feel like even if I get into high adrenaline situations in the future (I love to play poker, video games and go to concerts) that hopefully this won't continue to be a problem.
Thank you to anyone who even took time to read this or respond, I have never really posted on reddit before, but thank you for listening to my story.