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Your IPSS
Your score helps describe the severity and impact of your current symptoms. It does not by itself diagnose the cause of the symptoms or determine whether embolisation is appropriate.
What it does not tell you:
- What is causing your symptoms — several different conditions produce the same score.
- Whether you are suitable for embolisation, which depends on imaging, examination and your own preferences.
- Anything about how your symptoms will change without treatment.
Take this score to your GP or specialist. It is genuinely useful as a starting point for that conversation — and as a baseline to compare against later.
Get in touch
If your IPSS is 8 or above (moderate or severe), you may want some advice on what your options are. You can share this result with Tarr Radiology and we will come back to you with an answer to whatever you would like to ask — there is no obligation to book anything.
Your score is in the lower range, so there may be nothing that needs doing right now. If your symptoms are still bothering you, or you would simply like to talk it through, you are very welcome to get in touch.
If this is urgent, do not use this page
If you cannot pass urine at all, or you have fever with burning on urination, visible blood clots in your urine or severe lower abdominal pain, this is urgent. Go to your nearest emergency department or call 000 — do not wait for this questionnaire.
This page provides no emergency or urgent clinical assessment, and nobody monitors it outside consulting hours.
What this score measures — and what it does not
This questionnaire does not diagnose anything
It measures how severe and how troublesome your symptoms are right now. It cannot tell you what is causing them, it cannot tell you whether you have an enlarged prostate, and it cannot decide whether embolisation or any other treatment is right for you. Only a consultation, an examination and the appropriate tests can do that.
What this score measures
Seven questions about your urinary symptoms over the past 4 weeks, each scored 0 to 5, giving a total between 0 and 35.
One further question about how you feel about your urinary symptoms. This is scored 0 to 6 and is reported separately as a quality-of-life score — it is not added to the total.
Privacy — how your answers are handled
Privacy
Anonymous calculator. This page works out your score inside your own web browser. Your answers are not sent to Tarr Radiology, and they are not stored on any server, unless you choose to fill in the “Get in touch” section and press send. We do not ask for your date of birth, address, Medicare number or referring doctor here.
Unfinished answers may be kept temporarily in your own browser on this device so you can come back to them. Use “Start again” to clear them.
We measure anonymous usage of this page — how many people start and finish the questionnaire, and how long it takes. Your answers and your score are never included in that measurement and are never sent to analytics or advertising services.
If you send us your score, your name, contact details, answers and score are handled as health information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, and are kept in our clinical records. Read our privacy policy and collection notice.
Common questions
What is a normal IPSS score?
A total of 0 to 7 is generally described as mild, 8 to 19 as moderate and 20 to 35 as severe. There is no single “normal” figure — the score describes how troublesome your symptoms are, not whether you have a disease.
Does a high IPSS mean I need surgery?
No. The IPSS measures symptom severity only. Two men with the same score can need completely different treatment, because the score cannot tell whether symptoms come from the prostate, the bladder, medication or another cause. That is what an assessment is for.
Can prostate artery embolisation help my symptoms?
Prostate artery embolisation reduces the blood supply to the prostate so that it shrinks over the following months. In suitable men it may reduce urinary symptoms and may delay or avoid the need for prostate surgery. Whether it is appropriate for you depends on your assessment, your prostate anatomy and your preferences.
Is my IPSS score stored when I use this calculator?
No. The public calculator on this page works entirely in your web browser. Your answers are not sent to us or to anyone else unless you choose to fill in the “Get in touch” section and press send.
How often should I repeat the score?
If you are considering treatment it is useful to have a baseline score. After prostate artery embolisation we usually repeat it at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months, then yearly, so that change over time can be measured rather than guessed.
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Medically reviewed by Dr Gregory Tarr, MB ChB, PhD, FRANZCR, EBIR
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · next review due July 2027 · instrument: International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS)
Questionnaire wording, scoring and interpretation clinically approved by Dr Gregory Tarr on 25 July 2026.
This page is general information for Australian patients and their doctors. It is not a substitute for individual medical advice.