I took DH's pH ...

[zanacal]

I've never bothered taking DH's pH before but the opportunity arose (haha!) and, wowsers, it was a 10! This was the morning after he'd been drinking wine too which I guess lowers pH?!

Any ideas for something to lower his pH quickly and effectively? He's just started taking baby aspirin but so far I've only planned to give it to him 3 x times a week (same as me). He hates aspartame so I don't think I'll get much of that past him, except maybe on the evening before our attempt. Has anybody's DH taken cranberry supplements and how effective were they? I'm wondering if it's possible to take a higher dosage of them as opposed to the one low dosage aspirin which he can't have more of.

Thank you

[rainbowflower]

Wow that's high! I know its not always recommended but if its still that high around the attempt I'd be tempted to lower it manually externally and syringe it back in!

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[zanacal]

It briefly crossed my mind but I'm really not going down that route! We'll do what we can but I will probably stay away from even testing him again.

He has agreed to have a can of coke each day (not diet because he hates it so no aspartame but I believe coke is still very acidifying) and will take either cranberry or baby aspirin, whichever we decide is best for the job.

He's also agreed to no orange juice for a while but he's not happy about that! He's currently at Tesco looking for alternatives - I think he's going to try cranberry and buy some milkshake! He hasn't had orange juice for a couple of weeks though, so I don't think that's the culprit.

I hadn't planned on using anything after our attempt but perhaps I should add a touch of Aci-jel afterwards? At least I know there shouldn't be too much volume with all the frequent/recent releasing!

[Sassy]

Oh no Z!!!! I have no advice but hoping that it comes down a bit before your attempt....you've still got a few weeks before D-day. Will you use Rephresh? That way anything that passes through should have its Ph lowered too.

[zanacal]

We're planning our one attempt for the morning of O day so I wasn't going to use Rephresh, given the lack of cut-off! I'll have a think about it, I guess I could use both.

[swish]

Can you use refresh the day before ovulation?

[rainbowflower]

Swish yes you can, but if having just the one attempt it might be overkill

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[zanacal]

Also, we don't know how long the Rephresh takes to work and I'm not sure that it matters once the little fellas are on their way!

Do you ladies think I should get DH to take a baby aspirin every day? I was only going to give them to him 3 times a week (which is what I do) but perhaps we should both go up to every day at this point.

[Sassy]

Its certainly not going to hurt and may help so I'd say yes, give him the baby asprin daily.

[pinkdreams]

From what I remember reading the rephresh will lower the PH of everything that it comes in contact with for 3 days so I'm thinking it would lower the sperm PH (or at least that's what I'm hoping I also found it interesting that on the UK website for rephresh it says it is safe to use while TTC but doesn't say so on the USA site. Reading that it was safe while TTC made me feel more comfortable using it in my sway instead of the Replens.