CM question

[ZoeJane'sMommy]

Ok so I finally started actually checking my CM thoroughly not just with wiping. Sorry this may contain TMI stop reading now if you don't like hearing this stuff. I have not really experienced a dry day. It seems to always be moiste. So do I consider it dry if I am searching around it is just a little moiste or is that sticky or what. When I use the wipe method I am dry but not internally. Thanks in advance.

[littlest birds]

That's normal; you're never really "dry" inside. If you know what is your own normal least wet fluid, that you normally have during your nonfertile time, then chart that as dry. If you are dry when you wipe that's generally a dry day although you could find something really abundant at the cervix.

Personally I check my cervix fairly often but I usually don't check for CM when I do so. IME when there is enough to indicate anything interesting I will see/feel it when I wipe or see some my undies. It gets slippery and abundant and then it is everywhere; the rest of the time isn't fertile anyhow so I've stopped paying much attention.

[ZoeJane'sMommy]

Thanks for the info. I used to have large amounts of CM all the time to but I have noticed since I started taking metformin(or maybe it was the removal of my IUD) that my CM is a lot less noticable so this cycle I decided to throughly check it and I just O'd two days ago so now I am hoping for dry or anything but fertile CM. I really appreciate the info.

[karmab]

there is always a little moisture in there. i almost never have a day i would call dry- maybe once or twice, on like the day af stops, and i dont usually check until maybe cd8 anyway, so i dont usually notice that. but if i do, that's the day that it's most likely to happen, like cd5, it will be dry or sticky, and if it is, it's really obvious when you are trying to reach in there to check! i dont seem to "dry up" like so many talk about after o, either, i generally have watery/creamy after o- (ff doesnt have a category for that!), then creamy, and enough of it that i notice when i wipe. you know how it is, everybody's a lil different. but then there are avg days, and then there are really wet or slippery days when you know you are gearing up to o. you will get used to your pattern after you have been checking for a while, just like with cp- it takes a month, or two or three, but then it makes more sense.

just aside, have you heard of the creighton method? like eskimos for snow, they have like 200 types of cm designations. well, maybe not that many, but it's a fertility awareness method based on cm, and it is very very detailed. i dont know much about it because you have to be taught by a practitioner, it's sort of shrouded in secrecy...