Thanks for the input. I am calling the doctor in the morning and getting an appt. to get in and discuss this. Now that I think about it, after my last conversion, I did have some irregular beats -- the blood pressure cuff I had at that time would beep with each heartbeat, so it was easy to tell if it was regular or not. Now I have a new cuff, and it just shows a picture of a vibrating heart (cute, huh?), so maybe I'm seeing what I had before. The last one held for 3-1/2 months and I'm hoping maybe with a different medication, this one will hold. What medication were you on after the successful conversions? Maybe you said, but I don't recall. Perhaps my brain was fried when my heart was jump-started:)
In all cases my heart was in NSR when I awoke form the sedative. In a couple of cases, including the last attempt in August 2008, my heart would not hold NSR and it converted back to AFib in about a week in one case an in about a month in the other. The successful conversions each lasted about 1.5 years. On my last failure I was on a high dose of Rhythmol, and even that couldn't hold my NSR.
Not sure my experience relates, hope your heat settles down regardless of what my experience has been.