36 years old , pregnancy and Invisalign - Poulton, UKd

Hi there, I'm also in the UK and one week into wearing aligner 2. I found my aligners uncomfortable and painful during the first few days and like you struggled to take them off. However, I now find it easy to remove them and actually prefer wearing them than not! I agree that not being able to drink hot drinks, tea in my case, is difficult to start with but it does get easier. Stick with it and I'm sure things will improve for you.

Hello and welcome to our community! :)  I see Cazzieboo already found you!  I'll introduce you to a few others' reviews as well, who are working on crowding as you are.  But I also wanted to say, everyone in the community who experiences pain in the beginning says that it gets better.  For most, it's after 2-3 days.  For a very few, it takes a little over a week.  And as you progress, your teeth get looser and the treatment is easier.  So yes, this initial period can be trying, but it will get better!  

I did go through about two days where I couldn't remove my trays for pain (though it was because of my attachments having ripped up the inside of my mouth) and so I ate in my trays (I drank green smoothies and blended salads.)  It's not a recommended solution, and I still had to remove the trays to clean them anyway.  But I didn't have to do it as much.  And I didn't get cavities.  Those trays were very yellow/green by the end from the staining, but I didn't starve to death either.

Here are some other community members' reviews :)

HenryZ (had to have a tooth pulled, he's nearly done)
Mil ou's crowding is mainly on the bottom and it's pretty moderate, but there is an overlapped tooth and she had problems with bleeding in the beginning.
humbleoracle has pretty severe overcrowding in the bottom jaw
Dante555 has severe overcrowding on the bottom but nearly none on the top
Sunluvva's crowding is pretty severe
AreYouKiddingMe, jbranchfield, Yangche, and Ewag2014.
Our newest just before you is shannon1990 in Australia.

mlb502, one of our RealFriends, started with pretty crowded teeth as well, but she's nearly done after a long time.

Your teeth are moving ofcourse it's going to hurt! You'll be okay Advil works wonders good luck!:)

I hope your pain and bleeding gets better. I am a little over a week in tray 1 and I had very little discomfort. I will be wearing tray 1 for three weeks. My orthodontist wants me to get use to the trays. Mane your trays need filing to relieve some of the pressures on your gums. I wish you the best.

My first week with the trays was 'all consuming'. I am in week 5 & have settled into a routine. I have taken a nail file to some areas of my top tray. I do drink read, coffee & white wine with them in. Good luck

In my experience, the snacking impulse is difficult to break, but after that, you feel less hungry.  You also learn to eat better meals to avoid the dips in between.  It may be just blood sugar things that are making you feel so peckish.  As long as you don't have real blood sugar issues, you should get used to it.  If you are diabetic or pre-diabetic, though, you may want to talk to your doctor to make sure it's safe.  After a while, I was able to even skip two meals in a row if I ate a substantial enough dinner.  But no breads though or I got terrible dips!

The sharp end is something your doctor can file off for you, or call them and ask if you can do it yourself.

As for the drinks through a straw, it's not recommended by Invisalign or doctors.  Other community members do it and have done it.  (I've done it with green smoothies when I was desperate and couldn't eat for pain, and it did stain my trays.)  The issue is whether you get cavities or stain your trays.  If you can live with how your trays smell (like if you don't find that they smell) and your hygiene can make up for it, that is a choice for you to make.  You can ask your doctor what he thinks--if he has any advice, for example--but in the end, you make the decisions for your own life and treatment.  They tell you what would happen in a perfect world, and you get as close as you can. :)

I'm one week in to my third set of trays and trust me, removal gets much easier. From day two of this whole thing I decided that drinking anything was not going to be an issue for me and so.....I drink. I enjoy my coffee as I do every morning and ice tea all day long. I do not use a straw and just make sure when I'm done I brush and rinse or at the very least, rinse. I've had no odor or bad breath from my trays and you can eat soft snack with no problem at all. Just. Othing that requires much chewing. My first set of trays stained a little but it was only noticeable when they were off, not on. I soak my trays while I'm flossing and brushing and than I'll throughly brush my trays before putting them back in. I soak them in either a peroxide/water mix or a whitening mouthwash.
Why are you so secretive about your Invisalign's? I'm happy to show mine off any chance I get