I have to buy a meter, but I just don't want to spend the money. Is anyone not tracking their PH and just hoping for the best?
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I have to buy a meter, but I just don't want to spend the money. Is anyone not tracking their PH and just hoping for the best?
I thought about not using a ph meter but ended up getting one. It seems that most people who go from a boy-friendly diet to a girl-friendly diet have a harder time controlling their ph. Nearly all of the failed sways I saw on IG were people who didn't check their ph and just did the diet/supps/vita/herbs.
My own testing... ph was extremely boy friendly in Jan. After starting the supps/vita/herbs I noticed a 2 point drop in the first few weeks and then another 1 point drop by the start of Feb. After slowly starting the girl diet over the last 6 wks I have notice a slow change but still on average 5.5. If I had not been testing I would have started TTC based on the way my body felt, weight loss, and thinking everything was working right. But in the last month I have added rephresh and repleans and now my ph has stayed low. I will see in a week if it is still low.
So the ones that failed DID test their PH or DID'NT? I just wanted to be clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by purplepoet20
I don't want to do anything extreme to lower my pH so i guess that is why I figure I should save my money. I have spend so much on this sway, I am feeling really guilty about the non stop spending.
Hi,
You could just buy the strips. I bought the monitor and it didn't work properly they sent me another one and had the same problem. I found it all really stressful and time consuming. I felt like it wasn't for me and binned the whole lot id spent a fortune on solutions etc. Now I use the strips and am much happier a lot less money and fuss.
Im not swaying loads though so it depends how exact you want to be.
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DIDN'T.... wasn't feeling good at the time so I didn't check my wording.
We decided on the digital because we do gardening and are thinking of getting fish for the kids... The one we got is for pools, gardens, and fish tanks. I had also planned on testing months in advance Jan-June and then TTC in July-P. I didn't want to spend a ton of money on test strips. I could get lucky and conceive in the first few months or it could take longer but since I bought digital I wont be spending extra money if it takes longer to conceive.
Digital can be sold later on to another mom here or to someone who needs one for other reasons... I spend $50 for the meter and if I sold it I would ask $30-$40.
I was testing mine like once a week with ph testing stripes. It always seemed to stay around 4 until we had sex and then it would go up to a 7 which im guessing was a combined ph? Im not sure what that's supposed to be though? I would also check the ph of douches.
The strips don't work for me :(Quote:
Originally Posted by twosweetlads
Have you tried rephresh or repleans? repleans w/ hubbies sperm did go up but I haven't tried rephresh yet I am getting more today at the store to test it on hubby.Quote:
Originally Posted by mommy*duke
See I have a different experience on this, because the people that I knew who didn't check their pH were the same ones who WEREN'T doing diet. Almost all the failed sways that I recall (and this is NOT MEANT to pick apart anyone's sway) were people who were like, diet is too hard and so I'm just going to do timing and supps OR people who started off doing way way too much and didn't get pg for several months and then got desperate and started dropping stuff, usually diet first and a lot of them stopped checking pH because they went for so long they actually ran out of strips. So in my (limited) experience people who are not checking pH are also not doing diet, so it's hard to say why exactly their sway went south.Quote:
Originally Posted by purplepoet20
I ~personally~ see a lot of advantages to not checking pH. I think a lot of us who are boy moms tend to get a little obsessive over tackling projects and enjoy feeling in control of things, so having something like pH strips that we can check and tally and think about all the time and that has a very big potential to raise testosterone.
I found that my pH dropped from 6 to 4.5 in just a couple weeks by doing nothing other than losing weight and it stayed there for months afterwards. But I conceived a boy anyway!!!
ETA - I jsut wanted to clarify that I think it's a coincidence that people who weren't checking pH had opposites. It's that the people who are doing less to sway (in terms of diet, etc) are also the ones who don't check their pH, so it may very well be that the pH is irrelevant and it's because they are not doing the diet 100% that matters.
I think it's FINE not to check pH and in fact I see benefits to it, for keeping testosterone levels down.
See Atomic I sort have the feeling that if I am doing the diet, and taking supplements and my PH is still high, then there isn't much I can do about it, since I will not use douches. So what is the point of stressing myself and obsessing about the PH factor if there is nothing I can do about it, KWIM?
I don't know. I am buying Ion bracelets this month for DH and myself that are going to cost me $70 and I just feel so guilty spending more money on an electronic tester. I wish the strips worked for me.
I went back and clarified my answer but I agree with you 110%. If you're doing the diet, it is fine to drop the pH testing and in fact it may help you by eliminating a source of stress. The people who "didn't check pH and had an opposite" I think is a total coincidence because in my experience, the same people who didn't check their pH were the same ones who wouldn't do diet, either. So it was probably NOTHING to do with them checking their pH, but because they didn't do other things that were much more important.
I personally would not buy an electronic tester.