Table 3: Summary of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).4

LUTS   Description
(1) Storage Symptoms   Symptoms experienced during the storage phase of bladder
  Increased daytime frequency   is the complaint by the patient who considers that he/she voids too often by day
  Nocturia   is the complaint that the individual has to wake at night one or more times to void
  Urgency   is the complaint of a sudden compelling desire to pass urine which is difficult to defer
  Stress urinary incontinence
  Urge urinary incontinence
  Bladder sensation
    - Normal   Individual is aware of bladder filling and increasing sensation up to a strong desire to void
    - Increases   Individual feels an early and persistent desire to void
    - Reduced  

Individual is aware of bladder filling but does not feel a definite desire to void

    - Absent  

Individual reports no sensation of bladder filling or desire to void
         
(2) Voiding Symptoms   Symptoms experienced during the voiding phase
  Hesitancy  

Individual describes difficulty in initiating micturition resulting in a delay in onset of voiding after the individual is ready to pass urine

  Straining to void   Describes the muscular effort used to either initiates, maintain or improve the urinary stream
  Slow stream  

Individual reported as his or her perception of reduced urine flow, usually compared to previous performance or in comparison to others
  Intermittent stream  

Individual describes urine flow which stops and starts, on one or more occasions, during micturition
  Terminal dribble  

Individual describes a prolonged final part of micturition, when the flow has slowed to a trickle/dribble
         
(3) Post Micturition Symptoms   Symptoms experienced immediately after micturition
  Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying
 

Post micturition dribble

   Individual describes the involuntary loss of urine immediately after he or she finished passing urine, usually after leaving the toilet in men, or after rising from the toilet in women
         
(4) Symptoms associated with pelvic organ prolapse   Feeling of a lump, low backache, heaviness, dragging sensation, or the need to digitally replace the prolapse in order to defaecate or micturate, are amongst the symptoms women who have a prolapse
         
(5) Genital and lower urinary tract pain