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    Quote Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush View Post
    You're commenting on a thread that started out with an essay on how to check pH...I think most of the q's are answered in the original essay at the beginning of this thread.
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    Hey All, this is helpful so thank you. Just got my digital Hanna checker and did the initial soak in 7, then calibrated. So I wanted to do a CM check, but the package says never to touch the glass bulb with your finger. How do I get the CM on the tip of the tester than?????
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    A lot of people just carefully insert the Hanna and test that way. You could also use the Instead cup trick to collect some CM but if you're not at ovulation, you won't have much.
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    Got it-I would be hoping to get a reading w/out any vaginal PH just to really know. Do you think it's that big of a deal to use a finger? Or maybe put on a piece of paper first and then use the tester on the sample on the paper???

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    I never used the Hanna so I don't entirely know, I'm sorry. A q-tip is also an option.

    Be aware that if you have no CM, your pH reading is totally irrelevant. Only your pH when you have EWCM matters.
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    Thanks AS!
    That's right, you used the strips. Good idea on the Q-tip. In general I don't have a lot of cm, even around O, so just trying to figure out the options for testing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fresas View Post
    I'm glad I found this. This kind of answers one of my many questions in my introduction thread.

    Does the pH from the skin affect the CM sample? Meaning, if I take a sample of the CM with one of my fingers, is this going to give me a false reading pH-wise?
    I worry about the same thing, I have a digital hanna reader and unless I am right before o and have EWCM, I struggle to even find enough cm to get an accurate reading, so I usually need to use my finger and touch the electrode with the cm and wonder, does it read my skins ph or the fluids or both?? I cannot use a diva cup, I tried and tried, but I already struggle with tampons (even though I have given birth naturally to 3 kids not even having a small tear, I dont know why I cant handle any of the normal things )
    I have tried just inserting the hanna and take the reading then, but again wouldnt it read my skins PH? confusing....

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    nini, it's only your pH right at O that matters anyway so if you are able to test then, I wouldn't worry about it. All of us have very low pH when we are not Oing - we want to know what our REAL pH of EWCM up inside is, not the pH of our VJ which will always be 4.5-5.
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    right, this is something I never get... surely if a woman measures for a example a ph of 6 and is not at AF or O, she must either make a mistake OR have an infection! Right?

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    Or else she just DTD or had some bleeding from an irritated or injured cervix (from DTD) or she uses a soap or feminine product that either raised pH or irritated her VJ and made it try to wash the substance away - no one needs to panic if they have pH of 6 not at ovulation or think they have a YI, wait a day or two and test again and see what your pH is doing.
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