CM too sticky and dry for test strips

[besjoux]

anyone have this problem? I get no reading at all and my CM is pretty dry. What should I do?

[rainbowflower]

I've had this problem too, I don't think there's anything you can do but it must be a good sign that your hormones are heading in the right direction for a pink sway

[besjoux]

I hope so but I still wonder if this is a testosterone thing. Or something else like genetic. DH's family only has boys. His Grandpa had 2 boys, His Dad has 3 boys and those boys only produced boys (I have 3 nephews). On a good note, his uncle has 2 boys and 2 girls.

[atomic sagebrush]

It can't be genetic because anyone who only made boys, their entire gene pool would die out the first time that there was a war and most of the men died off. Also, of all the men who have ever lived, only 40% of them ever reproduced, so it would be a huge disadvantage to only make boys. It's a lot more to do with environment - people who share the same genes, tend to share the same environment as well. It's much more likely that humans are designed to make more boys when times are good and food is plentiful, and more girls when resources are scarcer (or our bodies believe that they are, anyway.)

Question - are you testing your CM at ovulation? You'll only have CM to test right around ovulation, at any other time of the month there will be very little and the pH will be misleading anyway.

[atomic sagebrush]

Also, high testosterone usually means MORE EWCM, not less.

[besjoux]

No, I was randomly testing. But I think I missed ovulation. We are not actively trying for awhile. I have to figure out this diet thing LOL

[atomic sagebrush]

Ok, then don't worry about it, that is totally normal. The secretions that your cervix makes are usu. very thick and sticky at all other times of the month because it is protecting your uterus from infection...it only takes the chance of opening up and making the thin, testable CM around O because that's the only time you can get pg.