What have you found lowers your PH the best?

[purplepoet20]

repleans was great way back when I used it but I didn't feel like buying more so I douche... Distilled water and I had vinager from Sams club 7%.

[chocolate]

Ah, Im in the UK........... no idea what that vinegar is!

[NeedAGirl!]

My pH is always 4.5. It started to creep up a bit when I started the diet. I am wondering if is Vitex or the peppermint tea maybe? Anyway, for me, drinking a bottle of Klarbrunn really brings it down. (basically same as Perrier)

[atomic sagebrush]

sounds like a great plan, how do you make the vinegar douche? Can I do this without a fridge as may be away the weekend of O. Will trial out replens first though

Vinegar douche instructions found here http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...ching-TTC-Pink

If you will be without refrigeration, I think it best for you to bring a prepurchased douche kit because it will be all sealed up and sanitary, and then you can just mix and use.

[atomic sagebrush]

Ah, Im in the UK........... no idea what that vinegar is!

Sam's Club is just a store we have in the US. What you want is the 7% pickling vinegar if you can find it. But my personal opinion is that the regular old storebought vinegar douche works just as well and is safer because you don't have to do all the mixing and there is less opportunity for contaminants. Plus it doesn't raise your T levels!!!

BE aware, when using 7% vinegar everyone, that 10% vinegar is more effective at killing weeds than Roundup. Vinegar is an acid and the stronger it is, the more potential to do you harm.

[atomic sagebrush]

I found that just losing weight and nothing more, dropped my pH from 6 to 4.5. However, I conceived a baby boy (prob. twin boys) with pH of 4.5 and it never went up at all. :/

[dark_pundit]

I'm having some issues with lowering pH as well. I haven't even ovulated yet - but have done a couple of trial runs. My baseline pH is somewhere above 5.5. I mistakenly purchased pH strips that go from 3 - 5.5 thinking that would be enough range, and it's not, all I know is I'm above 5.5.

I've been on an altered diet for about a week, but I don't know if I'll be able to keep it up with breastfeeding my son. I eat more veggies than I probably should for low nutrients, but if I don't eat something I can't make it through the day. I've been eating moderate portions of noodles and rice, limiting my salt as much as possible, and avoiding the big "no-nos" like potatoes. I also have at least 3 beverages with splenda or aspartame daily. I can't cut my calories too much, because I'm still worried about my breast milk production. I have lost about several pounds since the weight I had when I conceived my son, but it has been pretty stable for the last month or so. For supplements I take a prenatal, extra folic acid, calcium, magnesium, saw palmetto and cranberry. I also started taking Fem-Dophilis - a supplement to replenish your natural vaginal bacteria.

These things didn't alter my pH at all, so I tried RepHresh and this brought my pH down to 5 but only for 24 hours. Then it's right back up to where it was before. I'm very concerned that once I get closer to ovulation my pH will be even higher.

So as another test, after BD, I tried the lime tampon (ph 3) just too see if that was something I could do and it was really uncomfortable. I could only wear it for about 30 mins before I gave up. The 30 mins didn't seem to do anything either.

Suggestions? Just cough up extra money and use the rephresh more frequently around O? Have people had good success with vinegar douches?

[chocolate]

Well my range has been the lowest at 4.3 after using replens and up to about 5.5 this was since starting the supps of asprin, saw palmetto, zinc and b6 and folic acid. I have also been dieting so that may have helped. However I have my suspicions that eating pasta and yoghurt may be lowering it, will do that tomorrow and see what happens to PH. Maybe that is because it means I eat less bread or something. Drinking tons of diet coke caffiene free and will up that lots around O but the amount Im drinking you would think my PH would be the lower 4's all the time!

[deaks66]

I have been on the diet for 10 months (ugh!) and 2 cycles ago i started acidphilus and this has made a huge difference to lowering my ph...really recommend it (though as stated on ig it does raise ph for some).

[nicnee1976]

I had problems lowering my pH with diet, in the end I drank caffeine free diet coke, used aspartame and cranberry juice. That seemed to help a little, but I never got my pH into the 4 range. Was about 5.