The response set for bothersomeness and severity ranges from no bother (or not severe at all) = 0 to extremely bothersome (or extremely severe) = 4. Higher scores indicate more symptoms.
Up to 72% of patients, however, report 'early' (3 months after surgery) and severe urine leakage and/or related bother [ 6].
This latter category may be at risk of suffering from severe malaria as they may not bother to prevent or seek for treatment on time.
The majority in these two groups with severe problems experienced improvements in urinary bother between baseline and year one, most likely as a result of transurethral resection of the prostate or drug treatments for lower urinary tract symptoms.
Another benefit is that SLIT doesn't appear to bother allergy sufferers who have had severe reactions to allergy injections.
That tells her, she said, that many women are not bothered by severe symptoms, or choose to live with them.
Most nights I'm bothered by severe cramping in both calves while I sleep, a result of the same damn nerve routes, and the list goes on somewhat comically".
22 Although patients with mild LUTS can usually continue their normal life, patients with more severe symptoms are often bothered by those symptoms.
Participants were told: "Some people may rate one symptom as fairly severe, but not think it is very important, while other, milder symptoms may really bother them.
Symptom bother increases as the number of symptoms increases and as symptoms become more severe [6].
