lime douch and PH question

[HopeandDreamG]

I am on Cycle day 10 of my last "practice" cycle before actually trying to concieve. I want to be prepared for my actual attempt and just tried to make a lime douch for the first time. So I took lime juice and mixed with distilled water. The PH of lime juice alone was 2.6 so adding the distilled water made it even higher. From Tamara on IG I thought we needed to get mixture to a PH of 2. What am I not understanding??

My second question: I was also planning on playing around with replens, and aci-jel this cycle to see how my body reacts before the actual attempt. I am wondering should I wait till after I O? I already tried some replens and think I will be masking my CM symptoms which I also want to pay extra close attention to the CM/CM changes.
Thanks :)

[purplepoet20]

I tried lime and it ruined my insides. If you do use it test the mix on yourself and check your ph to see if it goes up or down, and also mix some with a sample from hubby because it may not work on him. After one attemped of using lime I chose to not use it again.

I always douche after AF with distilled water and a small amount of vinegar. I used it for 3 days this last cycle. After that I did a small amount of rephresh ever evening about 5hrs before dtd. If you cut the end of the tube you get about 4-6 days worth depending on how much you use. My ph has not gone above 5 for several months now.

I tried repleans 3mths ago and it worked ok for lower the ph but it raised hubbies. Around O my ph would go up with repleans.

From what I have seen the more you use down there the harder and longer it takes to get prego. Lime is so harsh on sperm.

[rainbowflower]

not sure about the lime douche - even if you can't get it lower than 2.6 perhaps that's still good as it's still drastically lower than your normal pH and lower than the pH of semen too, so it will still lower it a lot

if you want to see how your body reacts it might be best to try around OV as that's the CM that will be there during your real attempt (but obviously don't BD!), then you could try again after OV if you do want to see the differences with BDing?

[atomic sagebrush]

Re Douching: I'm glad you asked this because this is also the info I have (based on IG), but now that I stop to think about it, you're right, that makes absolutely no sense. There is no earthly way lime juice is that acidic and when I Google it, it looks like the lime is 2 at the absolute minimum to begin with. So mixing even a drop of distilled water with that would only raise the pH. I wonder if that is a typo on their part?? I cannot sign into IG anymore so I can't ask, if someone else wants to.

(ETA - PS - I looked it up in the EGS guide and it says point blank lime douche should have pH of 2.)

I guess if your lime is already at 2.6, and douching is important to you, you gotta just use straight lime juice (owie!!)

Here is the guide to douching that I wrote (but apparently has inaccurate info LOL)http://genderdreaming.com/forum/showthread.php?866-Guide-to-Douching-TTC-Pink

part 2 - yes, you will def. confuse the issue with CM if you start using Acijel/Replens, but it would be good to know if it made your pH go up, as it does to some people. Use your best judgement there and keep in mind that the sway diet and taking supps and antihistamines can completely alter your CM patterns anyway, so it may be better just to test the Aci/Rep with the knowledge in mind that your CM patters will vary in upcoming cycles.

[HopeandDreamG]

Atomic: thanks for your reply- I think what others do is 4 parts water 1 part lime. I haven't tested out that PH yet but I will. I can let you know when I try. I tried lime when I was experimenting and it kept my ph low for like 2 days. I read your post about rephresh vs. replens it made a lot of sense to me. My concern is, and I have read so much I can't recall if you said this, but I have def read that- If you use rephresh you cannot use anything else like replens or acigel.

So that I don't mask CM I think I will experiment with gels and douches after I O.
Lastly, can you look at my thread.. under genderswaying/trying to conceive girl called please give me feedback with my plan.
Thanks

[zanacal]

Hi HopeandDreamG - many of us have tested Rephresh with Aci-jel and Sylk and we've found them to work fine together. I used Rephresh and Aci-jel together.

[atomic sagebrush]

Atomic: thanks for your reply- I think what others do is 4 parts water 1 part lime. I haven't tested out that PH yet but I will. I can let you know when I try. I tried lime when I was experimenting and it kept my ph low for like 2 days. I read your post about rephresh vs. replens it made a lot of sense to me. My concern is, and I have read so much I can't recall if you said this, but I have def read that- If you use rephresh you cannot use anything else like replens or acigel.

So that I don't mask CM I think I will experiment with gels and douches after I O.
Lastly, can you look at my thread.. under genderswaying/trying to conceive girl called please give me feedback with my plan.
Thanks

We had originally speculated that we maybe shouldn't use RepHresh and Acijel together but then we tested it and found it to be ok together. Now the lime douche on the other hand, the pH is just SO low that I still worry about the douche/RepHresh combo and no one has tested that yet, so if you do and have half a sec to pop back and update us, then we will know.

i ~think~ I did your swaying plan this morning so look for it if you haven't found it already! GL!!!