If my pH is already low should I do cranberrry, aspartame or douches/sylk/rephresh, etc?

[NeedAGirl!]

I am just starting the diet his weekend but have been checking pH daily last 2 cycles. The highest my pH has ever reached is 4.8 on O day. (confirmed with 2 different strips and my digital monitor) I have very little CM compared to when I conceived my DS's. (guess due to age - now 35)

Should I take anything else to lower it? Is it necessary? Is there a risk of going to low? Would it be a waste of $ to take cranberry?

What if DH's pH is very high - about 8.5? After several days of cranberry and aspartame, it comes down to 8. We are going to try again this month with more cranberry and adding aspirin to see if we can budge it further.

Thanks!!

[atomic sagebrush]

Personally, I would not take anything if I had a pH of 4.8 at ovulation with very little CM.

I also wanted to let you know that there is a lot of nutrition in cran pills - now, a lot of people have taken them while swaying and been successful, but I usu. tell people to try baby aspirin instead because it acidifies without the additional nutrients in them. Plus, they are way cheaper than the cran is.

For DH, 8.5 is a little bit high but if it goes down with cran and aspartame to 8, that's great!

[NeedAGirl!]

Thanks Atomic! I wish I could take baby aspirin but I am deathly allergic! At least DH can take it! So you wouldn't recommend any vaginal stuff either like douches or replens, etc? If I cant get DH less than 8 do you think it would be a good idea then?

[atomic sagebrush]

It's up to you of course but if you're in a hurry to get pg I wouldn't. Maybe just do RepHresh and leave it at that if you're worried about it.

Rephresh will react with DH semen to lower its pH too, so you're kinda killing two birds with one tube of RepHresh. ;)