Last night I put set #9 on. CRAZY!!! I'm officially half way there on the top and bottom set. I don't feel any pain on the bottom ones but on the top I feel it pulling on one side. I always forget that I can't really bite down when i put a new set in. Overall I dont feel alot of pain. I'm really happy with the results though. This is the first time I notice that my freak tooth isnt sticking out as much since I started. I als like that my bottom teeth are finally worthy of being shown so I have to start smiling more and letting myself laugh without covering my mouth...yay!

drank too much and I said too much...

I am so impressed with my use of smiths/morrissey lyrics for my blog titles...anyway:

Yesterday I had an invisalign violation. I ate with my braces on. i was eating pizza, chicken, steak, shrimp, quesadillas....the works. After our office xmas party we crashed a really good one with tons of food and when I checked my coat my bag went with it so i had to keep the braces in. I will never do it again though. It felt really grimy and when I got home they looked disgusting and i had to scrub the crap out of them. Lesson learned.

oh and I;m kind of annoyed that i haven't been keeping an accurate photo log of my dental progress so once i get my camera in a few days I'm going to take pictures every week until June.

My throat was dry, with the sun in my eyes

So yesterday I put my new set in and the top ones hurt like hell. The blinding pain lasted about 3 hours and I was just so tired all day afterwards. I really feel it pulling on my freak tooth(the one that started it all) and I'm worried that my teeth aren't going to be perfect like i expect them to be. I really see the one on the bottom that was hidden before so that's a big plus. I already feel them the way i normally do so it's not too bad. I feel unsafe without them on my teeth so it's going to be a weird transition when this is all over. I'm still losing weight because of my invisa-diet so that's good. I am slimmer now and i can tell on my arms, my face and my hips so thats awesome!!! And the fact that people are actually noticing is even better.

I'm almost there

i can't believe i did 3 months already. its so weird. On Tuesday it became 3 months since I first put on my aligners. This set is really tight on the top. Ouch. I of course started drinking with my braces on all night as well because i figured 5 hours with beer braces is better than 5 hours without them.

I've been a bad bad girl

So I went out thursday, friday and am going out again tonight. And I've been drinking tons of beer with them on.

bad bad bad

well I wonder?

So I put my 5th set in last night and forgot to write about it. I can see my bottom tooth now and it's just crazy. It's actually more visible and not hiding in the background anymore. When I go up to the mirror and move my head so I can see the way my teeth are all aligned its so pretty. its almost perfectly round. The bottoms ones of these are tight but not bad. YAY!!!!!!

Found found found

I found something that is making my lips feel better so I'm not angry about this anymore. I was in an angry mood today and it was because my lips were raw. I managed to peel off the entire top layer of my lips savagely and now they're starting to heal. slowly. I bought this exfoliating lip thing and balm from benefit and it works awesome.

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

Right now I'm at the anger stage. I'm sooo over this. I have nothing good to say about this process right now except that it sucks that I can't eat whenever i want, it sucks that I can't eat whenever I want and oh yea....it sucks that I can't eat whenever I fucking want.

My mouth hurts today even with them off. My lips are insanely dry and I'm annoyed. And I wanna eat crunchy things and uuuuuuuuuugh!!!! I could go on for an hour about this.

High & Dry

My lips are beyond chapped. They are always peeling and when they get too dry they look really white and gross. I'm a totally chapped mess. This dry mouth is beyond any kind of dry mouth that I've ever experienced and it sucks. I look like I split my bottom lip because of how much skin has peeled off. Not cute. Tonight set #4 goes it. Very exciting.

Barbarism begins at the dentist

So last night I had 5 spaces filed. 5. I was expecting one. It was surprising and shocking but I'm over it. There was blood all over my dentists coat and he must've used 6 filing strips. But then he put my 3rd set on and gave me sets 4 and 5. They're so pretty and straighter, I love em. I also love painkillers because I'm sure that it's the only reason why I'm not bitching. These are super tight but not painful. phew

Straight to Hell

Tech support!!!!!! Damn, this is real life. No waking up from the future invisa-hell that I might have to face in a few weeks. I got an e-mail yesterday that scared me. Here it is:

"At the dentist today. He filed a few teeth with both the electric and manual files. The new set on top may be the tightest ever. I actually have pain running through my face right now. I better be a smiling s.o.b. when this is over."

That has me scared. If a grown man is dying over the pain...I'm dead meat. And the thing is there's no way to find out when it's gonna happen. That's the scary part. I don't want pain running through my face. I'm fine with the tightness of my aligners so far and don't want them any tighter. ever. Ugh!!!