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difference between sticky and creamy cm?

i have googled...and have seen MANY images, but i still cannot figure out the difference on these two. i guess mostly the "sticky" one. on my chart, i just switch it up between the two if i think one day is more "sticky" than the other, but it still looks a smidge creamy. do you ladies have any helpful advice?

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Re: difference between sticky and creamy cm?

  • If you experience both in one day, mark the most fertile type. Creamy CM will be totally smooth, like lotion. Sticky CM is more clumpy, almost a rubber cement-like texture. (Unless I'm mistaken.)
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    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

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    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    Umm...I am seriously hoping this is a joke! Ick!

    To me sticky CM is the same texture as dried up rubber glue is. Creamy is more like a lotion.

     

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  • imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    What the flip?!?!??!?! Who the freaking crap tastes their CM? Ick!

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    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    WHAT???  Ick!

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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.
  • ewww.

    :vomits in mouth a little" 

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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    WHAT???  Ick!

    Hahaha! Okay, I thought I was missing something! I am NOT willing to taste my CM to be able to know the difference! LOL!!!

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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    I am sorry but I think that is nasty!!!  How do you feel it helps out with charting???  BTW I would be totally replused if DH tasted his juices

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    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    Yum. What does EWCM taste like?

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    imageDeerHunter79:
    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    WAH?!  Surprise 

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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    He's doing it for your sexual gratification, not out of curiosity as to what your vaginal secretions taste like. I don't need to taste my CM to be able to chart what type it is. The "besides, it's my body" is like saying "I fingerpaint with my poop. Don't like it? Don't care, it's my body."

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    imagehappyday1986:
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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    He's doing it for your sexual gratification, not out of curiosity as to what your vaginal secretions taste like. I don't need to taste my CM to be able to chart what type it is. The "besides, it's my body" is like saying "I fingerpaint with my poop. Don't like it? Don't care, it's my body."

    ha! 

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    imagehappyday1986:
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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    He's doing it for your sexual gratification, not out of curiosity as to what your vaginal secretions taste like. I don't need to taste my CM to be able to chart what type it is. The "besides, it's my body" is like saying "I fingerpaint with my poop. Don't like it? Don't care, it's my body."

    ::DEAD::

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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    There is just some sh!t you should never admit.  Ever. 

    Holy hell that's disgusting.   

      

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    ewww......
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  • So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

  • imagehappyday1986:

    So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

    What is the benefit of tasting your CM???  And hell no I would never taste mine like PP said your DH/SO giving you oral is not because he/she wonders what it all tastes like....Ick!

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    So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

    No. I can honestly say that I don't believe anyone else uses taste as a way to distinguish CM. In what way does taste make it easier than sight and touch? And FTR, I don't enjoy encoutering DH's semen orally. I do it infrequently and I thoroughly dislike it when it happens. And what do you mean, no benefit to playing with poop? It's art. Duh.

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    So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

    So what do you feel is the benefit of tasting your CM is??? 

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    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    That really is disturbing! And, YES! It is different than when DH is doing oral. Personally I make sure I don't have anything oozing out of me when we have oral sex. I wouldn't want to "taste" that personally! That certainly isn't something you have seen specialist say to do. Yuck!

     

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    BV - I heart you.

    Happydays - Hahahah.  I hope you're planning to eat your placenta, there are vitamins in there. 

    I'm not but it does help with PPD.
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    And what do you mean, no benefit to playing with poop? It's art. Duh.

    bahahahahahahahaha

    To OP's credit, I don't think it's all THAT disgusting. Never occurred to me to taste it myself and I hate kissing DH after he goes down on me, but to each his own.
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  • imageDeerHunter79:
    imagehappyday1986:

    So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

    So what do you feel is the benefit of tasting your CM is??? 

    Taste and smell are the keenest of our senses. Adding those two components to my charting helps when I can't visually or by touch determine what type of cm I have. I'm not eating spoons of it or anything outrageous. Just a very small amount and only when I can't tell using the other signs.
  • imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    oh my gah? Ick!


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  • imageblindvictory:
    imagehappyday1986:
    imageDeerHunter79:
    imagehappyday1986:

    Generally they have a slighly different taste. Sticky is saltier due to the lack of water in its makeup. The most obvious difference is the texture, creamy is more like lotion, while sticky is sort of like elmers glue that hasn't completly dried.

    I hope you are just joking and dont really taste your CM

    I do as a part of my charting. How is it any different than when DH does oral? Besides it's my body.

    He's doing it for your sexual gratification, not out of curiosity as to what your vaginal secretions taste like. I don't need to taste my CM to be able to chart what type it is. The "besides, it's my body" is like saying "I fingerpaint with my poop. Don't like it? Don't care, it's my body."

    Literally just spit water all over my computer screen at work!  Your posts always crack me up BV!


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  • ***posts on TB***

    ***goes to clean the house***

    ***comes back to check responses***

    0_0  wtf. 

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  • I must have missed the "tasting your CM" tutorial in FF.

    ETA:  I don't even understand why you would need to know the difference between the two since neither are fertile CM.

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  • What ladies, you don't enjoy a little mid day cm snack? In the name of baby making how could it be wrong! Identifying the saltiness of CM will surely pinpoint O better.

    Personally, I don't care about CM unless its EW. I don't really think that the difference between creamy & sticky is all that important.

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    What ladies, you don't enjoy a little mid day cm snack? In the name of baby making how could it be wrong! Identifying the saltiness of CM will surely pinpoint O better.

    Personally, I don't care about CM unless its EW. I don't really think that the difference between creamy & sticky is all that important.

    Because of that there is Chai all over my monitor.  And have to agree with a PP, how did it occur to you to taste it?  I've read a lot on fertility signs and have never come across taste...maybe I missed that chapter in TCOYF?
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    imageDeerHunter79:
    imagehappyday1986:

    So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

    So what do you feel is the benefit of tasting your CM is??? 

    Taste and smell are the keenest of our senses. Adding those two components to my charting helps when I can't visually or by touch determine what type of cm I have. I'm not eating spoons of it or anything outrageous. Just a very small amount and only when I can't tell using the other signs.

     

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  • Some people eat nostril mucus. While other, apparently more hardcore people eat cervical mucus.

     

     

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  • Oh sweet baby Moses. CM-eating girl is the "Clomid from a shady online pharm so that we can conceive multiples" girl. She's just a giant melting pot of issues.
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  • Dear lord that is gross.  I thought we had hit the all time gross factor when that broad pip'ed her CM.  I was clearly wrong.
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  • imagehappyday1986:

    So none of you use taste as a way of identifying cm? I've never thought of it as gross or repulsive. I think sometimes people are a little too squimsih. Why is it any different from when DH encounters fluids during oral or when you encounter his? Also I don't really see the poop connection, being that there would be no benefit to playing with poo,but everyone has their preferences.

    Um, really really NO.

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  • imageblindvictory:
    Oh sweet baby Moses. CM-eating girl is the "Clomid from a shady online pharm so that we can conceive multiples" girl. She's just a giant melting pot of issues.

    This makes sense now.

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  • imagedani2480:

    Some people eat nostril mucus. While other, apparently more hardcore people eat cervical mucus.


     


     

    Haha amazing comparison!

  • imageblindvictory:
    Oh sweet baby Moses. CM-eating girl is the "Clomid from a shady online pharm so that we can conceive multiples" girl. She's just a giant melting pot of issues.

    She must have read somewhere that eating your own CM will get KU with twins.

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