Narrowing of the urethra, the tube that carries urine out of the body, which may obstruct urine flow.
Because the rating follows voiding dysfunction criteria, the evidence that matters most is whatever documents your specific voiding symptoms and their severity. For obstructed voiding, records showing you require catheterization, post-void residual measurements greater than 150 cc, uroflowmetry results with a peak flow rate below 10 cc per second, documentation of recurrent urinary tract infections caused by the obstruction, or records of how often you need stricture dilations all directly correspond to the rating criteria.
For frequency, clinic notes or urology records that record your daytime voiding intervals or how many times you wake at night to void support the frequency criteria. For leakage or incontinence, records documenting how often you must change absorbent materials each day are what the criteria measure. Your own statements, and statements from people who observe your daily routine, describing how symptoms affect sleep, work, and activities outside the home can help fill gaps between medical visits.
Conditions that are often caused or made worse by this one. If you have any of these, they may be claimable as secondary service connection.
