Bradley - 4:40 am on Oct 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

I had braces put on about 2 months ago (I'm 27 yrs old, btw)....and yesterday they put these small rubberbands that connect from the top canines to the lower back teeth. The goal of these rubberbands are to push the upper teeth back - and let me tell you something - the dull pain is driving me crazy! It even hurt to chew on coleslaw for dinner tonight, haha! The most annoying part is that I want to fiddle with the rubberbands with my tongue and fingers, but that stretches the bands even more and creates more tension!.....

Putting the braces on hurt pretty good.

the first round of tightening wasn't bad at all.

this second round of tightening combined with the rubberhands is pretty rough! :)

I'm off to swallow a handful of Advil. I hope I wake in the 'morn! ;)

(I think this is my first post in Foo :))