No EWCM, what can I do to help?

[CupOfBrownJoy]

Been ttc #1 for 6 cycles, I'm 34.

I am charting and my cycles are regular - 27 days with a luteal phase of 13 days. So far so good. However I've had no luck so far and beginning to wonder if my lack of EWCM might be to blame.

I am now taking Evening Primrose from CD1 to ov, but is there anything else I can do? EWCM seems so important in conceiving and mine is MIA!!

TIA

i hardly had EWCM at both pregnancies and got pg straight away. Mine was more of slippery see through egg white but didnt stretch at all. I used POS to track my O peaks.

also if i remember, try fresh pineapple juice to improve the EWCM

thanks, I think I've got a dusty tin of pineapples somewhere...

That's encouraging biglips, but honestly I can't any difference in cm at all over the course of a cycle. It just kind of stays creamyish looking but dry (sorry tmi) and not much of it.....

I thought ttc was going to be fun

Someone suggested drinking loads of milk actually. I think that was it anyway.

Also heard that Rock rose is a good Bach remedy to take for general dryness, but no idea if it works or not...they sell it in Boots.

Or you can get various lubricants that are supposed to mimic it - preseed in the USA, can't be sure what it's called if there's an equivalent over here.

You might be having the right sort but it's just not much of it iyswim...sometimes it just stays around near your cervix so without sticking a finger up there you can't tell.

Saying that the more the better I t hink

I got some preseed actually but I haven't used it much as I'm supposed to be being slightly sneaky around DP as to when the fertile windows are, and producing the preseed is a bit of a giveaway!

I think I'll try it again this cycle though, thanks I'd forgotten I had it

Yikes does it put him off I'm sure that's very usual. Too much pressure! Hopefully you can get around it, somehow . Good luck

I didn't know you could buy it here though.

I got it off Amazon - I'm actually in Germany.

Actually DP thinks sex during the window is "even better" but he also thinks I obsess too much so I try and lie appear more blase about it than I actually am

oh yes...mine has NO IDEA

he is aware of the temping though. I'm not sure if he just blanks it out tbh

ho hum

I have always had some but this month I have been taking 50mg of vitamin b6 a day along with a b complex and I have had stupid amounts of EWCM.
Last month I also had a teaspoon on manuka honey (£4 from Aldi) too, ridiculous amount of EWCM then too.

Honestly, over a few days it must have been a small egg's worth.

I've just read the Toni Wechsler book "Taking Charge of your fertility" - she recommends Robitussin cough syrup

Wow Pipbin when do you take it?

I feel like I'm rattling with all the supplements I'm taking. I've eased off the folic acid and the zinc a little bit as I'm spending a fortune and it has started to seem like a bit of a waste of money.....

I have a boots own pre conception supliment and take the b vitamins at the same time, just before breakfast.
I have the manuka honey when I'm making dinner because it's in the kitchen.

I tried Robitussin and Preseed when I was about your age. I didn't notice any magic effects with the robitussin. We went down the IVF route in the end.

If you've been trying 6 months can you have preliminary tests on the NHS? Ie day 3 hormones for you and a sperm count for your DH? Does he drink much or have hot baths or ride a bike or use a laptop on his lap? My DH's sperm count improved A LOT when he gave up beer and whisky and hot baths.

Its a bit more complicated Bearcrumble, because I'm in Germany. I'm not sure what the rules are here, but I've just changed my medical insurance so I should have more access to the German equivalent of the NHS from next month.

I also think it'll be such an uphill struggle to get DP there before August (after our wedding, when we agreed we would go if nothing had happened) that I'd almost rather wait. I mean, obviously I want to know right now but I don't want to risk Dp not being on board if we need any tests etc.

its a minefield

Oh and DP drinks and smokes and is 44. If I could steal his sperm and get it tested I would!!

Hi Sparky

tampons dry your delicate bits out? Dear Lord Sparky what will I have to give up next??

My cm is so not registering on the radar that I barely look at it. There's no point - its just there iyswim....

I've ov'ing next week so I'll try and have a sneaky insertion of the preseed. Should be easy enough as I'm usually in bed slightly before DP....

I googled this earlier and lots of people on an American site were saying they saw a real increase when they drank lots of green tea and just generally upped their fluid intake which kinda make sense.

Have you tried Zestica lubricant? It's meant to be a good one apparently.

RightUpMyRue, I heard the same about mint tea...hasn't worked for me, but then again I am a PCOSer.

ok so;

up fluid
up green tea
cut out tampons (I really don't think I could do this)
up manuka honey
up vitamin b6 and b complex
up preseed
up rock rose
up pineapples
up milk

Phew! Thanks everyone

up mint tea

Ive never heard of Zestica - I'll have a google...

thanks

WRT to preseed "giving the game away" - in theory you are supposed to squirt the preseed up your bits using the disposable syringes they supply, so that it sits by your cervix. Rather than just using it on the surface.

So you can insert it pre-SWI and not tell your DH, if it would kill the mood.