Kat's Skyrizi journey

[Kat]

Great news! I hope it works well for you. Interesting how it’s taken over two months from seeking approval.

No, that one is on me. I was told by the pharmacist to check with the doctor before either getting the shingles vaccine or starting Skyrizi. I got approved before I contacted the doctor so asked them to hold off shipping until then. Doc said it's fine as the current Shingles vaccine is not a live vaccine. Then I decided to not have them ship it during the holidays as we were having packages get held up in major cities for a few days and I worried about that (needlessly it seems but I had issues before with a prescription med getting held up and wasn't sure what temperatures it had reached) So AbbVie very nicely just told me to call when ready and that my approval is good until December 2024. They did say to allow 2 weeks from order to delivery. The two weeks is for them to contact pharmacy to set up an overnight delivery date. I meant to call them the last week of December, but procrastination is in my DNA I think. I mean, I still haven't gotten the shingles vaccine! But I did decide to wait on that until after my initial doses of Skyrizi to make certain there weren't any issues adapting to it (which I don't expect there to be)