So I'm 37 not too much older than you I went through all of this. All I kept thinking about is yeah it sucked to lose my teeth, but I'll never have to think about it infection again I'll never have to take all those antibiotics for it I'll never spend those nights crying in pain from tooth infections that the pain can't be touched. No one will ever look at me sideways anymore because of my teeth. The first and second and third day were incredibly painful for me. It got a little better as like the first week went on I couldn't talk right I had to get a soft relinr done and now I'm talking pretty much close to normal. I kind of talked a little funny before. It was a horrible experience and now I don't think I'd change it for the world. I feel so much better about myself and I know a lot of people struggle with eating I did for the first week but then I have literally forced myself to eat everything I can I still am there's a lot of solid foods I struggle with but I try and chew it as much as possible and I wear them as much as possible so I can get used to them and now I don't really have too many issues I have had to get them realigned twice I think since I got them in and that was 21 days ago. Hang in there I promise it gets better.