Thanks for your reassurance everyone! I feel fine so far so here's hoping the thing has left me or will do so very soon. Don't fancy trying to find it but I'd feel a lot better if I knew for sure it was out!
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I work with a bowel specialist nurse and she just thought it was funny when I told her, so I'm assuming it's not too big a deal?!
Thanks Daisy, I honestly thought that was the kind of thing the dentist was going to say, I was that paranoid! He was actually very nice about the whole thing. By the time I got to him, I'd had no sleep and my anxiety was through the roof and I think he could tell! I told him I was feeling down about the whole braces idea and he was very encouraging - reminded me that, as sirwired said, bonding failures are common early on, and that plenty of adults have braces and get through it okay and that everything would get easier. I left feeling slightly better about it all.
Had a conversation with a colleague today about 6 Month braces - her daughter had them recently and she said the results were fantastic. She agreed her daughter found them awful at first, but that it does get better...until the tightenings! Her treatment time also ended up being 3 months less than estimated, but I'm not going to focus on that idea in case mine ends up taking longer...with the luck I've had so far that wouldn't surprise me!
Feeling a lot better about everything this evening so will enjoy that while it lasts because it's been pretty exhausting this last week! Thanks again everyone, this forum is the biggest braces help there is
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