Dear Lori, Thank you for your reply and all of your invaluable information and guidance ! I plan to call my oral surgeon tomorrow and I will let you know his response. I feel so very much better about the extraction, now that I have your outline to follow. I did want to clear up one fact that I think I must have told you about incorrectly. I am no longer on antivirals. My primary physician prescribed them for me and she said that one cannot take them for longer than one week. So just to be clear. I took Valacyclovir HCL 1 gm q 8 hours from May 7th to May 14th. I then took Doxycycline 100mg q 12 hours from May 15th to May 25th, to address secondary skin infection around the healing blisters. Everything appears to be healing well and the pain is diminishing each day. I do want to encourage anyone to have the Shringrix vaccinations. I did have the two vaccinations as recommended and still I got Shingles. I choose to believe that I would have gotten a much more severe case, if I had not gotten the vaccinations. My real concern with vaccinations is that now my allergist is convinced that I got the Shingles because I got the latest Pfizer 23-24 COMIRNATY vaccine, only two weeks before I got Shingles. But, that does not mean that this would happen to anyone else. I would never want to discourage vaccinations! One thing at a time. I keep trying to check off boxes and accomplish" Good Progress" on my journey. Thank you, again Lori !!!!!
I keep copies of your replies next to my bed and whenever I get anxious I read your reassuring words !
Stay warm ! I am in Detroit and one day here it is 40 degrees and the next day it is 80 degrees. I am very grateful for my furnace and my air conditioner.
Holly