Advice from healer types, please?

I've just removed my wedding band (yay, Windex method!) due to worry that my finger would swell after a bee stung me right below the spot the ring hit my finger. I got the stinger out quickly and the bite seems to be a non-issue. But my finger's really deformed from compression under where the ring was, since I had those rings sized down after I lost a lot of weight in 2001, and have since gained all of that weight and then a bit back.

I don't expect to be losing that weight again any time soon, so I'm going to go ahead have the ring resized. Any advice on speeding my finger along toward recovery so that I can get a good measurement for the resizing (and also have a finger that looks okay)?