Pelvic health tip of the week: A pelvic health self-assessment quiz

In which I pretend to be a magazine editor from the early aughts and you get to get real with your symptoms.

As a child of the 90s, I have always loved a good quiz. Like yes, TELL ME everything I didn’t know about myself! Into it.

So today, I’m living my own dream — actually designing one! If you missed Monday’s post, we’re building on the question of whether or not internal pelvic floor work is a necessity to care — and the answer, of course, is bio-individual.

We all have professional bias, and I’d love to send everyone to pelvic floor therapy. But instead, I’ve mapped out this quiz to bucket you into several different categories: beef up on global systems training and stay aware of symptoms, get your booty into pelvic floor therapy, and/or contact a pelvic pain coach or sexual health counselor.

I’ve also created an audio walking you through an optional internal (vaginal) self-assessment. You can think of this just as I’ve presented it on Monday — one tool in your toolbox to get more information!

The quiz:

Add up the numbers in parenthesis next to each item and see below for scoring. If you check any items that have a * next to them, add each * in your score. For example, if my total score if 10 and I’ve checked 5 items with a *, my score is 10*****.

PEE!

• I occasionally leak small amounts of urine when I do something like cough, laugh, sneeze, run, or jump. (1)

• I regularly leak small to moderate amounts of urine when I do something like cough, laugh, sneeze, run, or jump. (2)

• I regularly lose the entire contents of my bladder when I do something like cough, laugh, sneeze, run, or jump. (3)

• I have to pee more than every 2 hours. (2)

• I get sudden urges to pee with specific cues like coming home, washing dishes, being in specific places. (1)

• I leak with sudden urges to pee with specific cues. (3)

• I have to pee more than once a night. (1)

• I have pain with peeing. (2)

• I have difficulty either beginning to pee or feeling like I’ve completely emptied my bladder. (2)

POOP!

• I am regularly constipated. (2)