HI Ladies, please help, Ph levels, lime, Rephresh, Aci

[atomic sagebrush]

The whole "you must have mag to have cal" has been debunked. Your body stores PLENTY of mag and just uses it whenever it needs to. In fact, the University of Maryland (they do tons of excellent research into vitamin and mineral supplements) studied it and found that when you take cal and mag together, your body uses the same process to absorb them both and mag gets absorbed more quickly, so it actually interferes in the absorption of the calcium. Peopel who take them together may end up with lower cal absorption than those who take them separately.

Drying up CM seems to RAISE odds of conceiving a girl but lowers odds of conceiving at all.

Why do the women in yoru family complain about acidity??

the pH of all heathy human vaginas is around 4.5 except during AF and at ovulation when you make a lot of CM. CM is alkaline by its nature becasue sperm needs alkalinity to survive. It's also much more alkaline up inside than it is once it enters the low pH vagina.

[Babystars]

Thanks Atomic, that is extremely interesting, I guess 10 odd years ago this was the thought but technology with more in-depth research now tells us otherwise just like Shettles compared to what researchers are finding today.
I got low dose aspirin & have tried it twice but had some odd side effects with only those 2 doses so I've dropped it
My family have severe eczema & skin allergy issues that they say is too much acidity in their systems.My great grandma used to complain about hot skin that felt like it was burning, she'd get a red rash & say it was too much acid in her system. Some other ladies in our family find purfume's smell weird on them because of the high acidity in their body.I get eczema to the point were my skin is raw. Many times it can feel like Ive got severe sunburn with acid poured on it, it burns & itches,swells & splits open with raw patches. Its a horrible thing to suffer believe me. I've been on Steroids, creams you name it, most of my life. We seem to produce mainly girls in my family & are high dairy consumers ( as mentioned before I'm also a vegetarian) Quite a few sets of twin girls & a set of triplet girls are in our family (all naturally conceived) My great,great Grandma apparently had 13 children, 11 were girls. ( I would love to hear what your thoughts are on that one Atomic with all your knowledge Surely that cant just be the luck of the draw lol. A few years ago I changed my diet as my eczema was out of control. My naturopath had been advising me too. I'm happy to right it up & message it to you if it could be of any interest to you, I think there's some very interesting things involved in it & I fell pregnant with a ds while on it ( Ive never swayed & only did the diet to rid my eczema)But interesting... I've started eating dairy, tomatoes & potatoes again recently after a few years (with little eczema in that time) & Ive got eczema coming back so it certainly seems to be something there with diet. Here's hoping another dd will come from this. I'm going to start the Zyrtec in 2 days which also will be a good thing for my eczema as my specialist put me on Antihistamines years back with my other eczema meds.
I have used rephresh over the last 2 days. Is it normal for our combined ph to rise to 7.38 with Rephresh in there 20 mins after dtd, I thought with the buffers it would be under that. It seems closer to Dh's ph than our combined ph like we tested before.The next morning I was 5.72ph. Many thanks once again Atomic for your time & knowledge, its much appreciated

[Babystars]

Sorry Atomic, I will reword that last part,as it sounds like we used rephresh 20 minutes after dtd. We used rephresh earlier but tested ph 20 minutes after dtd. Hope this now makes sense lol

[atomic sagebrush]

Some people do not tolerate the aspirin well and if you're one of them, it's best to drop it. Use aspartame instead or even nothing but diet.

The idea that some people are "acid" has also been debunked and you can read a good explanation here. Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense Naturopaths still promote the idea but biologically it is not true.

It's much more likely that your relaties have sensititivites to certain foods (perhaps dairy?) and this is causing eczema. Eczema is an autoimmune disease where your body's immune system is going out of control due to being constantly exposed to allergens in your environment. I also have severe eczema and skin allergies. Nightshade plants like tomatoes and potatoes have also been linked to eczema and so I suspect that if the naturopath had you go off certain foods, it allowed your immune system to relax and the eczema cleared up. Perfume smells different on different people and has nothing to do with acidity.

The steroids have not been very helpful for me, the number one thing that helps me is using a plain lotion like Cetaphil and avoiding certain soaps and lotions (my allergies are less foods and more soaps/lotions but everyone is different.) Antihistamines can help with eczema because it reduces your body's allergic response.

Did you use anything else besides the RepHresh?? Lime juice?? pH does weird stuff sometimes and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. If your body "doesn't like" or isn't used to the RepHresh, it might make extra CM to try and wash it away (and this may be esp. true in people with allergies/sensitivities) You may get used to it over time and that reaction will go away. If you're worried about it, try an attempt without the RepHresh and see what happens.

Does it lower pH before those 20 mintues are up? Most sperm have left the vagina within 20 min. so if the pH rise only happens after 20 minutes, I would not worry about it.

[Babystars]

I'm sorry to hear your an eczema sufferer as well atomic, you'd sure understand. An autoimmune disease I'd certainly agree with, the acidity thing, that's definitely food for thought. My hormones seem to play a part- My eczema plays up more so a week before my Period & its much better during pregnancy. I had all the allergy tests done & they didn't find anything. When I went on the blood diet, within 7 weeks I felt like a new person, energy wise, my eczema disappeared & the weight from steroids just fell off me. Can I ask Atomic, your thoughts on the blood type diet, if your blood type A like me with suffering eczema. As so many eczema/allergy suffers I've met seem to be type A's & O's. My hubby was on Antihistamines for allergies, he went to our naturopath & was told to give up wheat, the following day he did & the allergies disappeared (O type like him are meant to avoid wheat) Sometimes when we eat out, he starts sneezing (especially some Chinese restaurants)
The repHresh I used with nothing else, I read your post not to use lime with it. I've waited 3 days so the RepHresh would of finished working & thought we'd try a lime douche ( we'd done a practice run last month in safe time with 1) so last nite the lime douche was ph 2.25) & 2 mls after dtd. 15 minutes after dtd combined ph was 4.87 oh I must say I felt so stingy maybe too strong. I worried that it may of killed off everything or damaged them. Then decided we'd dtd again without anything & didnt test ph. This morning my ph was 5.56 & I noticed a tiny blob of repHresh on testing (sorry tmi) so its seems a bit of the repHresh is still in there & keeping my Ph around 5.5. I'm nearing O We don't know if we should do a cut off or go right through Atomic & try RepHresh again, I don't think we want to do lime again with the stingyness I got last nite ( still a bit sensitive today). Would love your thoughts. Thanks so much again

[atomic sagebrush]

My eczema gets loads better when I am pregnant too.

I am blood type O. I don't discount the blood type diet at all because depending on our ethnic heritage we evolved eating whatever foods were available in the areas where we lived for generations and we may be more able to tolerate those (or less able, depending on what theory you follow, since some allergists believe that exposure to foods may make it more likely you are allergic to them.) There is some conflicting info that I have read regarding the blood type diet tho and so I'm not totally sold on all the specifics of it. I did a very strict allergy diet for two months and never got better, so for me personally I think it's the soaps and lotions that I am sensitive to.

The lime douche can be really uncomfortable for people. You're not alone there!! That's why a lot of people give up on it, it's just too sting-y. My advice is if you feel good about the other aspects of your sway, try again. If you don't and would feel relieved if you don't get pg this month, then leave it where you are and maybe you'll get a BFP, maybe not. Whatever you decide, for best odds of pg, use RepHresh no sooner than 8-12 hours before BD. Good luck!!

[Babystars]

Thanks Atomic, very interesting. I know a few people who changed laundry powders etc & their allergies disappeared but for me it seems to make no difference, it seems to be more a food issue,hormones & also changes in seasons that trigger it
We made up the lime again last nite but a little more diluted (5mls lime, 20mls water) & used 10mls. We didn't check any ph's though. I just don't want to stress or obsess before & after. But checked this morning & I was 5.55 & 5.85 at lunchtime- I hope this is considered a low ph a good 12+ hours after dtd? I just haven't had any ph's under 5.5 since weve been dtding as normally I can get done to just over mid 4's. I just feel like chucking some more repHresh in. I didn't have any issues this time with lime lol maybe it was too weak, but surely it would help anyway? I notice a few people do tbm ( not that we would do this) I wondered how successful it is. Thanks so much for answering Atomic, Im starting to get my head around all this

[atomic sagebrush]

I would feel fine about pH in the 5's at any point around ovulation. 12 hours after DTD it doesn't matter what your pH is tho - the sperm are already gone up inside where they can no longer be affected by the pH.

Here is my essay about TBM. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...r-swaying.html It's hard to know rates of success with TBM. I personally think that DTD with RepHresh and antihistamine is just as effective and without lowering odds of pg as much.

[atomic sagebrush]

I would feel fine about pH in the 5's at any point around ovulation. 12 hours after DTD it doesn't matter what your pH is tho - the sperm are already gone up inside where they can no longer be affected by the pH.

Here is my essay about TBM. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...r-swaying.html It's hard to know rates of success with TBM. I personally think that DTD with RepHresh and antihistamine is just as effective and without lowering odds of pg as much.

[Babystars]

Thanks for that Atomic, I'm feeling a bit down. I wanted to do a lose sway but it seems its turned out a lot looser than we anticipated... My temps have been all over the place this month ( both dh & I got a bug so not sure if this affected mine) & Ovulation seems to of occurred early (we were toying with the idea of not doing a cut off as when we look back we know we were dtding every day with 1 DD) But decided we would stick with a cut-off after reading so many successful stories. As mentioned earlier its a little difficult to point point ovulation as I get 2 lots of pains, 2 temp dips etc over a few days but I used opks & got only faint lines so we thought we still had more days ( and studying the the pattern on my previous charts) but blow me down my temp dropped the following morning, approx 10 hours after dtd & O pains occurred later that day. Strange my cm is creamy watery yet hardly any ew (sorry for tmi) maybe that's the Zyrtec working & lime? People put so much emphasis on timing, would be great to have another shot at this. DH is of the opinion we probably wont get pregnant this 1st time trying, due to being older, using lime, both having hot showers/baths twice a day & dtd every day and after so much stress recently, well in a couple of weeks we should know.