TTC a girl and antihistamines

[ltester]

Hi everyone! I've been following GD for a while now, and just made my first posts last night. We are planning to BD tonight and tomorrow (three days prior to ovulation) after a close adherence to the LE diet and losing 15 pounds. I thought I'd try benedryl, but after all my reading, I am unclear if I should take it an hour prior to BD or on the day I am ovulating or all three days. Thanks for any suggestions!

[rainbowflower]

it would be before BD - it affects the CM in the vagina/cervix, and by ovulation the swimmers have already gone through and are waiting for the egg in the fallopian tubes so dryer CM wouldn't affect them there

[Andi]

On the back of that - is an hour or so long enough for anti-histamines to take effect? Or is a few hours a better bet?

Also do people TTC pink take anti-histamines daily while they DTD or only on actual DTD days?! Hope that made sense!

Thanks x

[rainbowflower]

I don't know about Benadryl, I think that one is an hour but I didn't try it so don't know for certain
antihistamines can be taken either on BD days or every day in the fertile window, I'm not sure it matters. I think I'll be taking them every day in the fertile window this time so new CM is nipped in the bud.