International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS)

IPSS is designed to help you and your doctor to assess your voiding symptom severity. To calculate your score, simply click on one response button for each of the 7 questions below. After responding to all 7 questions, click on "Calculate". The total symptom score and the suggestions will appear at the bottom.

   
Not at all
Less than 1 time in 5
Less than half the time
About half the time
More than half the time
Almost always
Your score
1. Incomplete emptying
Over the past month, how often have you had a sensation of not emptying your bladder completely after you finished urinating?
2. Frequency
Over the past month, how often have you had to urinate again less than two hours after you have urinated?
3. Intermittency
Over the past month, how often have you stopped and started, several times when you urinated?
4. Urgency
Over the last month, how difficult have you found it to postpone urination?
5. Weak stream
Over the past month, how often have you had a weak urinary stream?
6. Straining
Over the past month, how often have you had to push or strain to begin urination?
  And
None
1 time
2 times
3 times
4 times
5 times or more
Your score
7. Nocturia
Over the past month, how many times did you most typically get up to urinate from the time you went to bed at night until the time you got up in the morning?

 
Total IPSS score    

Total score: 0-7 Mildly symptomatic; 8-19 moderately symptomatic; 20-35 severely symptomatic.

Quality of life due to urinary symptoms Delighted
 Pleased Mostly satisfied
 Mixed - about equally satisfied and dissatisfied
 Mostly dissatisfied
 Unhappy
Terrible
If you were to spend the rest of your life with your urinary condition the way it is now, how would you feel about that?
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

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