Urine Flow Sounds recording by Cell phone.
This web application records the sounds of the urine stream hitting the water in a toilet and draws a graph of the loudness against time. Some men worry about their diminishing urine stream, and others wonder if the drugs they are taking to enhance their urine stream are working.
Call 617-284-5573 or if you are in Montreal 514 305 0707 on your cell phone and at the beep record the sound of your peeing. Hang up. Then log into this site using the 10 digit phone number and see the tracing. You might print it to show your doctor.
The most typical and reproducible graphs come from urinations when you are ready to pee. Avoid the first one in the morning, and perhaps before you go out of the house.
This is not in any way a medical test. It is simply a mathematical processing of the sounds of urination. No advice is given and no diagnoses are made. If you are worried about your urine flow, consult a medical professional.
The “International Prostate Symptom Score ”, available after login, was designed to be self-administered by the patient, with speed and ease in mind. Hence, it can be used in both urology clinics as well as the clinics of primary care physicians (i.e. by general practitioners) for the diagnosis of BPH (prostate enlargement). Additionally, the IPSS can be performed multiple times to compare the progression of symptoms and their severity over months and years.
Secrecy is an important feature of these data. You will note that you are not asked for your name or social insurance number. These are not needed, the phone number is used as an identifier in the databases. The phone number is encrypted and then hashed using MD5 before it is used. This means that nobody at all, even the system operator, can read your phone number. If a hacker gets in he cannot use your phone number, because nobody at all knows what it is. My phone number is stored as “162a8105b749d21cc4b4691954800702 ” and yours will be something similar.