Replens and Supplement Question!

[Mommasita]

So, I am taking cranberry, acidophilus, cal/mag, folic acid, baby asprin, and Vitex. I am also trying to use Aspertame on everything I can, and drink tons O'd Crystal Lite. I also eat a low-sodium diet, and I try to eat LE. Would it be overkill to use Replens too? I don't want to kill all the sperm!

I try to test PH, but after a lot of frustration I recently read that they are not sensitive enough to test CM accurately (Hydrion PH test papers). I also read that Rephresh can either raise or lower your PH, and I don't want to risk it. Tamara says that Replens can lower your PH too much (as far as 2.5 I believe). Help! Any advice?

[atomic sagebrush]

The info on RepHresh on the IG website is very inaccurate. What RepHresh is designed to do is bring pH into the range of 4-5 which is normal vaginal pH. So if you have lower pH than that, it will raise pH, but only just a bit. If you have any higher pH, it will lower it to 4-5. What's superior about RepHresh to any of the other jellies is it actually combines and chemically reacts with whatever it comes into contact with to bring the pH of that stuff to 4-5. It reacts with semen and CM for up to 3 days to lower pH to 4-5 (that's what a reactive lube DOES - on IG they claim that it reacts to make your pH go higher, but that is totally wrong and if you go to the RepHresh website there is a good explanation of how it works.) Now, if you use lime juice (pH 2-3) then that can actually react with the RepHresh and pH will go up, so we just don't use RepHresh with lime juice. Most things the RepHresh will touch (semen and CM) will be higher in pH and so will react with the RepHresh to bring pH down.

Acijel, Sylk, and Replens are just big bursts of low pH that combine with semen and CM, and then your pH settles somewhere between the two. People test pH right after they use one of these products and of course their pH looks really low, but it's because they just stuck the pH stick into a big blob of the stuff. Over time it averages out and pH will go up, unlike with RepHresh which actually chemically reacts to bring pH down. Also, some people find pH spikes with those jellies because their bodies try to wash the stuff away by producing extra CM which is always alkaline. With RepHresh, even if your body does try to wash it away, the RepHresh will still react with the CM and bring its pH down.

We tested RepHresh with Sylk and Acijel and they seemed to work fine together (did not raise pH) but one person has reported that her pH went up after using RepHresh and Sylk, when it stayed low with just RepHresh.

The deal with Replens is that it seems low in pH, but it contains pH buffers that bring pH to 4-5. It does not matter that if you stick a pH stick into it and it tests lower than that, because the buffers are designed to keep pH at 4-5. Everything that company makes is designed to keep vaginal pH at 4-5. They are not making swaying products, they are making pH balancing products that are meant to keep vaginal pH at a certain range to help control flareups of yeast, bacterial vaginitis, etc. They don't make anything that lowers pH very far, nor do they make anything that raises pH very far, that's not what they're trying to accomplish with their products, everything is meant to stay between 4-5. So when you read info on IG that says something different, it's because whoever wrote that info did not understand how the products are designed to work.

That was a roundabout way of saying, Replens is fine, but RepHresh is better.