It's funny I didn't experience as much pain from the powerchains and elastics as I expected...but it was pretty bad for the first few days. It has settled down now but now my teeth are starting to close the gaps and brushing my teeth is very painful (my husband hears me screeching and yowling all the time). It's also randomly difficult to eat depending on which teeth are moving (particularly my molars).
It's hillarious Gilly I thought that getting brackets off would be bad too but I never even knew what was happening until I got home and worked it out! I remember getting the brackets taken off the teeth that needed to be extracted (a few months back) and I was waiting for him to take them off and he goes 'right, off you go' and I'm like 'you've taken them off???? I thought you were just taking the wire off!'...
My holidays were great thanks! I went to the beach which is a rarity for me (I live inland) so it was a real treat!!
Hope you're having a great week!
I haven't been able to get them cut because I've been running a fever and enduring some sort of strange virus! 
I haven't been this excited for an appointment since I first got my braces on!!!
and here is my latest update:
)
