Thanks Gretchen! It's reassuring to read some of the other posts here and to know I'm not the only one with issues after root canal. Hopefully I'll have the same kind of outcome I've read about elsewhere - remove RC teeth properly (surgically), and health returns to normal.

Although I'm still not sure what part the extraction has played in all this. I'm hoping Bryanna will reply when she has a chance. Maybe she's seen this kind of situation before.

From my last conversation with the oral surgeon, I'm confident that he will do a thorough extraction. He said that for a bridge or implants, he would extract the RC teeth, scrape down to the 'bleeding bone' to be absolutely sure all infection was gone, and place grafts.