I took DH's pH ...

[rainbowflower]

this might be controversial, but I'm not sure that RepHresh will be much help regardless - I saw a study recently saying that all swimmers that could fertilise the egg are through that cervix between 15 and 30 mins... if RepHresh takes longer than that to lower pH perhaps the relevant swimmers will be long gone by the time the RepHresh works...

[fresas]

Holy whoa! I don't have any insight for you now, but I hope you can find something that will help. Whoa.

[zanacal]

Holy whoa! I don't have any insight for you now, but I hope you can find something that will help. Whoa.

Haha, your reaction made me giggle!

[zanacal]

this might be controversial, but I'm not sure that RepHresh will be much help regardless - I saw a study recently saying that all swimmers that could fertilise the egg are through that cervix between 15 and 30 mins... if RepHresh takes longer than that to lower pH perhaps the relevant swimmers will be long gone by the time the RepHresh works...

I'm sure I read on a study that most are already gone after something like 1.5 minutes! I think the Rephresh is helpful if you're going to DTD more than once, so if your pH rises because you've done it once and you're going to DTD the following day and you don't want to add any new gels or douche. Hopefully in that 24 hour period the Rephresh will have got your pH back down to 'normal' levels and also if you believe it's important to keep pH down between your cut-off, if you're doing one, and O. Like you though, I'm more concerned with making sure there's a blast of acidity right when the sperm first arrive on the scene, to lower sperm count, and I don't particularly care what my pH is for much longer than that!

So here's the plan, DH is going to have a can of coke (not diet but better than nothing!) each night with a double strength cranberry tablet and he's following this up with sugar free gum because he hates drinking/eating sugary things because he worries about his teeth (and that's as much aspartame as I can get past his lips!). He's also agreed to no orange juice leading up to our attempt. We're doing frequent release and we'll also make sure he's released within a few hours of our attempt so hopefully, even if his pH is on the high side, there won't actually be much semen. I'm also going to add a tiny bit of Aci-jel soon after we've DTD.

[pinkdreams]

Good luck!!! I think I may need to experiment with the rephresh, I'm going to get a "sample" from DH and add some rephresh to it and see how long it takes to lower PH if it does it at all. Now I'm curious

[rainbowflower]

Zana good point about the multiple attempts thing

Pink I'd be very interested to know your findings! When will you do the experiment?

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[pinkdreams]

I'll try for this evening, I'll post me findings LOl

[Sassy]

Oh Yes pinkdreams - let us know!

Hey guess what Z - we tested DH last night and........you guessed it 10!!!! So I frantically found this post again! He hasn't been on Cran during 2WW but I put him STRAIGHT back on it and added a baby asprin. Also told him to have an extra Diet Coke (caffeine free lol!) during the day. Do you think that's enough or should I double his Cran?

[Indira]

Oh, now I have to find out my DH´s too!
Have to find a way without him knowing though he´ll freak out if I hand him a cup..

[purplepoet20]

My hubby had ph in the 8-9 range... one weekend when he wasn't taking the other pills yet he took 12hr sudafed for four days and his ph went down to 6.5. For each of our attemps he take saw palmetto 360mg, licorice root 200mg, 1000mg calcium, 250 mag, 16,800mg cramberry w/c in it, zyrtec in the am, benydrl in the pm, and sudafed 2x's a day. We are not going to use any gels or douches with the next try.