By becoming familiar with what is normal and confidently recognising your usual patterns of fertility and infertility, you will readily notice when something abnormal happens. If you experience unexplained bleeding or a bizarre pattern of discharge you should always seeks medical investigation. Your Billings Ovulation Method™ chart will provide a valuable record of the onset and duration of these abnormalities, which may assist your medical practitioner in determining the appropriate investigation to be undertaken.

This chart, of a bizarre mucus pattern, enabled early detection of adenocarcinoma of the cervix in a 33 year old woman.  A pan-hysterectomy was performed. No evidence of metastatic cancer was detected.  Her doctors commented that she would not have survived until her next scheduled Pap Smear if she had not identified the abnormality in her chart.