PH

Have any of you ladies had the ph of your vagina tested? I know from speaking to other women on other forums it's a fairly common test in the U.S but I've never come across anyone in the U.K who's had it done so I'm assuming our doctors don't bother. Anyone had it done and did it reveal anything?

Nope!

thats never been suggested to me by the doctors...but im not suprised we have to do our own bloody research! lol

Anyway I have heard that there could be a link to how acidic the vulva area is???

Its something worth looking into

Sebby
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As far as I can tell a slight change in ph can cause all manner of problems, either way too, so slightly too acidic or slightly too alkaline. My ph strips I ordered didn't arrive so I'm going to have to order them from elsewhere so I won't know the answer to my wonderings about ph for a while!

Oooh where do you order them from?

You can buy them online but you need ones that start from at least as low as 4.5 as that's the highest ph the vagina should get to before problems with alkalinity start. Preferably you want some that go low as well so shop around. I won't give the name of the place I ordered mine from because they never delivered so I'm in the process of claiming my money back but look for urine and saliva ph strips. To use them apparently you just take a small sample of discharge with a cotton bud or something similar and dab it onto the test area on the strip to see what the ph is. Obviously they are fine to test urine ph too so that's something I plan to do when I eventually get some!

I thought I'd drag this thread back up, I've tested my ph several times in the last few weeks and I'm too alkaline, my reading is 5 and it should never be higher than 4.5 with 4 being preferable. I'm not sure why this is and I don't have an infection or anything. My doctors have no answers because I test negative for everything so I've no clue what this is all about but I'm sure it won't be helping things. Anyone else tested theirs yet? I'm wondering if it's a common finding with vulvodynia and if it could be one thing that links us all?

i have been to many docs in the U.S. (of course) and no one has ever brought up the subject of testing my ph.

It's practically unheard of here in the U.K but I got interested when talking to two ladies from the U.S on another site and one of them had a slightly alkaline ph too which is why I decided to test mine. I'm sure if I asked a doctor here to do it they'd have no clue why I wanted it done!