One month braces & first appt!

So its been one full month and the worst part of having braces is over and done with! At this point, I dont even realize I have them anymore. Its a part of life to me now lol. I had my first wire change 2 days ago. It was super quick and simple. They checked out my mouth and popped the wire off and then let me brush and floss without the wire on. Damn that felt nice to quickly floss let me tell you lol! Then they changed my wire and gave me some more wax! I have another appointment in 6 weeks and Im hopefully going to get my 3 springs off next appointment. Right now they are making space to pull my teeth forward and into into the right positions. I hate the springs, they make everything look more bulky then they actually are and the one on the top is ugly in pictures! My teeth hurt a little bit that day and I was a little tender but Im totally fine now.

Update on my braces...

Not much has changed but Ive figured out some short cuts today! Re-cap: I can eat mostly all the foods I used to without any pressure or pain. I still cant 100 percent bite into things with my front teeth. Anything that you have to bite and kind of pull with your front teeth is still semi-difficult. A bracket on my bottom tooth developed a sharp edge and my lip keeps catching on it and that hasnt happend at all until now so I was absolutely forced this time to make the wax work because the cut in my mouth was affecting my speech. I knew you had to make the tooth dry to adhere the wax to your tooth but for some reason mine never worked. But this time, I used a way smaller portion of wax and just stuck in on there and smoothed it out and it stuck! And it feels sooo much better. Can believe I went that long without the wax! I also tried and fiddled around with my rubber bands again and got it down pat! I figured out some tricks to get them on. My ortho had said I needed to wear my elastics almost  24/7 for the most part of my treatment but when I went to my first appointment (4 days after I got my braces on) she told me to hold off on the rubberbands. She never said an actual day to start them so now that I know how to put them on and now that Im not in any pain I guess Ill just start wearing them. Im gonna wear them at night and when Im at home for now until my ortho gives me the ok to wear them all day. Im gonna hold off on wearing them for work and school just to avoid pain and discomfort. My next appt is Feb 17 and I think she might be changing the bars on my bottom teeth back to springs. Will keep you updated. Also, if you run out of something the orthodontist gives you, Wal Mart has pretty much everything you need. I will be doing a video on how to apply the wax and rubberbands as well as, how to brush and floss. Havent seen much movement in my teeth and no pain means not much is moving around. All the springs and bars are skipping over certain teeth therefore they arent going to be moving until my wire is hooked up to them. Its a good thing cause my ortho is slowly easing me into things :)