Lesson Summary

The Pelvic Organ Prolapse Symptom Score assesses symptoms over the past four weeks:

• Question A1: Feeling of something coming down from or in your vagina
• Question A2: Uncomfortable feeling or pain in your vagina worsened by standing
• Question A3: Heaviness or dragging feeling in your lower abdomen
• Question A4: Heaviness or dragging feeling in your lower back
• Question A5: Need to strain to empty your bladder
• Question A6: Feeling that your bladder has not emptied completely
• Question A7: Feeling that your bowel has not emptied completely

Please rate the frequency of each symptom from 0 (Never) to 4 (All of the time). For question A8, specify which symptom out of A1 to A7 causes you the most trouble by entering a number from 1 to 7, or selecting "Not applicable."

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