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stupid/gross question regarding CM

Do I have to stick my fingers up my vag to check my CM? Can I just rely on the toilet paper looking "shiny" when I wipe to determine it's EWCM?

Sorry, but you're the only people that can answer this (or that would even entertain such a question)!  

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Re: stupid/gross question regarding CM

  • I don't trust the TP. I check in the shower, it cuts down on the 'ew' factor.
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  • I do it both ways. Sometimes I can tell by looking at the tp. Sometimes I have to finger-bang myself to tell wtf I'm dealing with down there. KWIM?

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  • To get even more gross......I can usually see it best on the toilet paper after I've gone number two and have been straining a bit.
  • See what I mean about you ladies being the only ones that I can ask? Only here can I get valuable responses to a question like this. 

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  • I'm a TP checker myself..
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  • imagebrandykf:
    To get even more gross......I can usually see it best on the toilet paper after I've gone number two and have been straining a bit.

    This!  Sometimes if I don't have to go #2, I will use TP and stick my finger up there---there have been many times where if I went off just my TP, it would be creamy, but once I stick a finger up there, tada!  There's EW!

     

    Oh, and I love how we are talking about fingerbanging and CM, but I call taking a sh!t "#2"  Stick out tongue 

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  • I've always done a TP check.
  • imageshanna82:

    imagebrandykf:
    To get even more gross......I can usually see it best on the toilet paper after I've gone number two and have been straining a bit.

    This!  Sometimes if I don't have to go #2, I will use TP and stick my finger up there---there have been many times where if I went off just my TP, it would be creamy, but once I stick a finger up there, tada!  There's EW!

     

    Oh, and I love how we are talking about fingerbanging and CM, but I call taking a sh!t "#2"  Stick out tongue 

     

    LOL! 

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  • imageshanna82:

    imagebrandykf:
    To get even more gross......I can usually see it best on the toilet paper after I've gone number two and have been straining a bit.

    This!  Sometimes if I don't have to go #2, I will use TP and stick my finger up there---there have been many times where if I went off just my TP, it would be creamy, but once I stick a finger up there, tada!  There's EW!

     

    Oh, and I love how we are talking about fingerbanging and CM, but I call taking a sh!t "#2"  Stick out tongue 

    Well we have to draw the line somewhere. And since that side is unrelated to babymaking, I support the line you've drawn.
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  • If you simply rely on shiny tp, how are you ever going to get to post about vag snot?  Really now!  LOL! 

    Someone make room for me on the fingerbanger bench please.

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  • imageBabyTrippin:

    If you simply rely on shiny tp, how are you ever going to get to post about vag snot?  Really now!  LOL! 

    Someone make room for me on the fingerbanger bench please.

    :: scootches over::
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  • Shiny doesn't distinguish between watery and EW though. I usually check both ways, bc there were times I thought it was watery and a finger bang revealed creamy.
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  • imageksulli:
    imageBabyTrippin:

    If you simply rely on shiny tp, how are you ever going to get to post about vag snot?  Really now!  LOL! 

    Someone make room for me on the fingerbanger bench please.

    :: scootches over::

    I'm on that team too.  

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  • All right ladies, is EWCM the stuff that looks like watered-down rubber cement? :-)

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  • Ok...just got out of the shower (finger bang included). If a little bit of white was on my fingers, that is creamy, right? 
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  • Either creamy or sticky depending on the consistency.
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  • imageTeresa1896:
    All right ladies, is EWCM the stuff that looks like watered-down rubber cement? :-)
    never thought of it that way. It really is egg-whitish for me, and super stretchy. Also- is that an airdale in your siggy? DH grew up with one & loves them.
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  • imageksulli:
    imageTeresa1896:
    All right ladies, is EWCM the stuff that looks like watered-down rubber cement? :-)
    never thought of it that way. It really is egg-whitish for me, and super stretchy. Also- is that an airdale in your siggy? DH grew up with one & loves them.

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  • imagekathymarie:
    Ok...just got out of the shower (finger bang included). If a little bit of white was on my fingers, that is creamy, right? 

    If it has white in it, it could be creamy or EW.  The best way to tell is if it's stretchy.  Sometimes EW can still have some white it in, but if it's real stretchy, it's not creamy. 

    I'm fascinated with CM, which is why they have me bat cleanup on the fingerbangin team Big Smile

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  • imageEclairAngst:

    imagekathymarie:
    Ok...just got out of the shower (finger bang included). If a little bit of white was on my fingers, that is creamy, right? 

    If it has white in it, it could be creamy or EW.  The best way to tell is if it's stretchy.  Sometimes EW can still have some white it in, but if it's real stretchy, it's not creamy. 

    I'm fascinated with CM, which is why they have me bat cleanup on the fingerbangin team Big Smile

     

    There was no stretch in it at all. I put it in as creamy.

     

    And EWWWWW about the bolded part!  LMAO!!! 

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  • imagekathymarie:
    imageEclairAngst:

    imagekathymarie:
    Ok...just got out of the shower (finger bang included). If a little bit of white was on my fingers, that is creamy, right? 

    If it has white in it, it could be creamy or EW.  The best way to tell is if it's stretchy.  Sometimes EW can still have some white it in, but if it's real stretchy, it's not creamy. 

    I'm fascinated with CM, which is why they have me bat cleanup on the fingerbangin team Big Smile

    There was no stretch in it at all. I put it in as creamy.

    And EWWWWW about the bolded part!  LMAO!!! 

    LMAO!!!  That is pretty gross, isn't it?  HAHAAHAHA!

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  • I'm obviously quite tardy to the party, and have nothing to add other than I was thoroughly entertained by this thread!  Y'all are the best!
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  • I am also late to the party, but I'm going to add my 2 cents because I am an AW!  Stick out tongue

    I check TP, but it is important to check the same way.  If you check internal one day and the TP on another, you could be missing important info that might change your chart.

    EWCM stretches.  If it is an inch or more in stretch, it is EWCM.  If it is EWCM's doppleganger but doesn't stretch, it is watery.  Creamy looks like lotion, and sticky is the stuff that isn;t there enough to be creamy, KWIM? 

    I check the TP instead of fingerbanging because I get a decent amount of CM around O.  I will only change my methodology if my CM dries up a significant amount.  If I have to poop, I check it before and after.  I'll check it in the shower, but I stay on the outside.  For me it helps me kabosh the crazy, and when I see a lot of CM, DH gets bad things done to his special no no place.   

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  • imagervandiver0705:

    I am also late to the party, but I'm going to add my 2 cents because I am an AW!  Stick out tongue

    I check TP, but it is important to check the same way.  If you check internal one day and the TP on another, you could be missing important info that might change your chart.

    EWCM stretches.  If it is an inch or more in stretch, it is EWCM.  If it is EWCM's doppleganger but doesn't stretch, it is watery.  Creamy looks like lotion, and sticky is the stuff that isn;t there enough to be creamy, KWIM? 

    I check the TP instead of fingerbanging because I get a decent amount of CM around O.  I will only change my methodology if my CM dries up a significant amount.  If I have to poop, I check it before and after.  I'll check it in the shower, but I stay on the outside.  For me it helps me kabosh the crazy, and when I see a lot of CM, DH gets bad things done to his special no no place.   

    Very helpful! Thanks!
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  • I used to be a in the shower checker but the water would often mess up the results. Plus, my foot slipped once from the side of the shower wall and I almost face planted.

    Now I am a f-banger. *edit* before I shower.

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  • Such a phenomental question and such informative and LMAO answers.

    Thank you.

  • imageVeilSdeGTO:

    I used to be a in the shower checker but the water would often mess up the results. Plus, my foot slipped once from the side of the shower wall and I almost face planted.

    Now I am a f-banger. *edit* before I shower.

     

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  • I just wasn't getting the info I needed from the TP.  I'm on the finger-banging team.
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  • I vote this most helpful thread of the week! I need to get more in tune w/ my CM. Usually I have to pee so dang bad, I forget to check it. The 1% times I remember, I do a quick finger swipe, not so much a fingerbang. But I'm totally open to trying it ;)
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  • Thanks for the laugh ladies. Awesome thread. I am on the TP team, but I usually have plenty around O time and it's not hard to figure it out. Are we going to create badges for the TP team and the fingerbanging team?Stick out tongue
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  • I'm tardy to the party, but I love this whole entire thread. It made my night.

    I'm on the TP team as well, but there is no mistaking when it's EW for me.  I have done the fingerbang once in a while to see if it's different, but not consistently enough to join the team.

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  • I vote this as the most entertaining and LOL funny thread I have ever ready! 

     Also, add one more to the f-banging team. 

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  • imageStretchad:
    imageksulli:
    imageBabyTrippin:

    If you simply rely on shiny tp, how are you ever going to get to post about vag snot?  Really now!  LOL! 

    Someone make room for me on the fingerbanger bench please.

    :: scootches over::

    I'm on that team too.  

    I am too.  Hope it's a long bench.

  • late to the posting party but i always stick my fingers up there- on my really wet days tho its just gushy-
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  • I can't check with toilet paper. There is no way i'd ever see anything. Most of the time a just swipe with a finger, but sometimes I have to check up the vag. It sucks.

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