Atomic! Balance Activ?

[rainbowflower]

would you use it before or after DTD then?

[zanacal]

I'm thinking an hour or two before, I won't use anything afterwards (but I will JAD). I compared the consistency to Sylk and it's pretty similar, Sylk probably just a little more watery. You even have me wondering about BDing through O now rainbow!

[queen-of-harts]

Rephresh is sperm friendly? Do they mean somewhat sperm friendly or totally sperm friendly?

[zanacal]

Lol - from the Rephresh website:

We are trying to become pregnant—is it OK to use RepHresh?
Yes. Unlike some lubricants, RepHresh’s patented formula will not interfere with sperm motility.

[DoulaMama]

Ah ha! So this is the new gel you were referring to? sounds like it'll be great, Z! Low in ph, hostile and thinner/less gunky than Rephresh. Good luck with your decision xo

[rainbowflower]

Lol - from the Rephresh website:

We are trying to become pregnant—is it OK to use RepHresh?
Yes. Unlike some lubricants, RepHresh’s patented formula will not interfere with sperm motility.

now that's interesting as well! I hate having to make decisions :P

[zanacal]

Oh me too! I think I'm almost there though

[queen-of-harts]

For some reason i thought rephresh was rough on the sperms motility....so the only reason we are using it is to keep our ph at the consistant 5 and prevent it from spiking higher? With the whole debate over if ph even matters im second guessing if i will even use rephresh now.

[zanacal]

Well, their website says it doesn't affect the sperm's motility but I'm not convinced - it is rather thick imo! I think the benefit of Rephresh is that you only have to use it every 3 days, so with a cut-off or if you're BDing every single day for two weeks then you don't have to think of it any more often than every 3 days which is less stress.

Personally I think pH does help with a pink sway because a low pH will kill off some sperm and lower sperm count does sway girl. Likewise a 'gel' of any sort has got to kill off some sperm.

I think I have decided to use Rephresh every 3 days while we're DTD with a spermicide condom, just in case something about the spermicide makes my pH go up and makes me more prone to an infection (which I really don't want right when I'm about to O!). I think we'll DTD unprotected on the evening of my first +OPK (O-1), the following evening (O) and the following morning (O+several hours) and for those attempts I'll either use Aci-jel or this Balance Activ, just need to decide which!

[rainbowflower]

presumably to make a claim about that (keeping sperm motility) they would have had to do scientific tests on it or it would be illegal to claim that?
Even if it's a thick gel that doesn't mean that the "fibres" within it aren't aligned well for the swimmers to swim through?