Healthy gums don’t bleed, and are not painful to floss at all.
I’m in my 30s and only recently learned flossing technique and got my gums healthy. Flossing used to take so long and always involved a lot of bleeding no matter how delicate I was.
These days I’m absolute savage with floss and interdental brushes and never have any blood or pain.
Once you get your gums healthy you’ll be disgusted at yourself for ever not flossing. The amount of disgusting I can floss out on an almost daily basis is insane.
Plus you’re breath will not smell gross anymore.
It’s worth committing to the habit of flossing. Trust me.
I have the same problem and my hygienist has also said it’s difficult to floss my teeth. I rarely ever flossed. Then I got a water flosser and at the risk of sounding like an ad, it’s great. It’s not simply not bad; it’s actually pleasant. The next time I got my teeth cleaned after buying it, the hygienist said my gums were noticably healthier and she asked what I had done.
Well, it’s working, I now want one ;) But having just looked at options, the choices and price ranges (20-120) confused me, and I’m mostly happy with interdental brushes, so I might just stay with them :D
I am unusual in that my teeth are very tightly spaced. An interdental brush is probably great for a lot of people, and I imagine it’s nicer than flossing if you can fit it between your teeth. I got a pretty basic $100 model. My only complaint is that it’s loud.
Maybe it’s time I got one of these. I forgot they even existed because everything just seems to be disposable floss these days. If I floss even gently my gums bleed so much I wake up with blood all through my mouth and throat. No matter how much I rinse.