I have had A-Fib since 1995 , and I'm a "constant", I went thru the gamete as most here have, all the scary tests', holter's, treadmills, heart valve test, everything...I managed to not have to be "converted" , have a pacemaker/defibrillator, and not a candidate, after being released from cardiac rehab. , everytime I had an "bad" episode I would rush to ER,call my cardiologist, ..."PANIC"...then on an episode,called cardiologists and nurse Linda got me to calm down and told me this.. she said Scott take control,YOU know the signs, take inventory, sit,rest 5 minutes, now are you in any pain, faint,sweating,short of breath,any numbness,etc. , and since I had none of these, it was "my" first episode without panic,fear,stress and by the time Nurse Linda was done talking to me,my episode was gone, now we know the difference between an Event and episode,so my advise to all would be to find your Nurse Linda,understand any and all our Afib marker's/signs and take control,and since my talk with Nurse Linda, my episodes have diminished to almost none,and even now "if" I have one, they are short (under 10 minutes) mild,so take control my Atrial friends,it's still not fun having this afib thing, GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY
Sugarbe