urological history
Last reviewed 01/2018
The patient may complain of the following symptoms:
- obstructive symptoms:
- hesitancy: a delay initiating micturition
- poor flow
- intermitency: inability to maintain a continuous flow
- terminal dribbling
- pis-en-deux: residual urine results in a desire to pass urine soon after voiding
- irritative symptoms:
- dysuria: burning on micturition
- urgency: the sudden intense desire to micturate
- frequency
- nocturia: more than one micturition per night
- incontinence:
- stress incontinence: precipitated by physical activity
- urge incontinence: as a result of urinary urgency
- continuous incontinence
- renal and ureteric colic:
- felt in the loin
- colicky pain: comes in waves
- strangury
- due to obstruction of the kidney or ureters
- male sexual dysfunction:
- impotence
- retrograde ejaculation