27 Years Old Starting Invisalign with Acceledent. Manhattan Beach, CA

So I'm almost at the midway point. I've definitely noticed my overbite and crossbite improving. I've now started on the next phase of my treatment - the next 25 or so trays align my back teeth. Once those are aligned, the last 3 trays are all about moving my front teeth into their final position. It just seems like such a crazy amount of time! From my clincheck it seems like my back teeth move infinitesimally which has been good in terms of pain. I'm not really feeling any pain or movement except when I eat and even then it's only a little bit of soreness. Le sigh.

I have been thinking lately that I want to whiten my teeth but am wary of doing so while I have attachments on. Does anyone know if whitening will look weird? Do the attachments just stay the same as your old tooth color and stand out even more?

Plugging away. Figured I'd upload some of the pics so far. These are from a couple of trays ago (ignore the gross, yellow filter). My front teeth are now straight and fully aligned with each other which is amazing. After tray 14, it's all about pushing my back teeth into position so my front teeth, both top and bottom, will get a rest.

I got some filing done between my teeth today. Only on the bottom. It didn't hurt, although, at times it was uncomfortable. The emory board floss thing was weird but didn't make the screeching noise some other commenters mentioned.

Well I got through Thanksgiving with these things in. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The last couple of trays have been suspiciously easy. I don't have soreness or twitching in my jaw anymore so it seems I've become used to the elastics. And I'm finally starting to see movement in my front teeth! I looked at photos where it looks up at my front teeth and look at it now and it's so noticeable how much straighter it already is! I think from my clincheck video that the front tooth finally gets pushed into position on tray 14 so I'm almost there. I change to tray 10 tonight and I'll try and post some pictures later.

The only weird thing is, with this tray when I put it on last week everything was good - no crazy pain and relatively easy to take off. But now randomly in the last day or so some of my teeth have been really hurting. If my elastics are on the teeth on my upper right side (pretty much the teeth right around where the elastic hooks on) really hurt, especially if I lightly press my tongue on the back or bottom of the teeth. It's a sharp, consistent pain and even when I don't press against it, it's kind of a sharp achy feeling. And when I take off my bottom tray, the back left tooth feels sore, uncomfortable with a dull ache. Only for a little bit, but it weirded me out since prior to this, this tray gave me no problems. Usually, I'll experience pain the first few days of a new tray but I've never had pain pop up the last 2 days of a tray. Anyone else have this? Is the pain from invisalign just going to rear its ugly head every now and then randomly?