can you pass this along to your friend, Sharon?

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Good MOrning Sharon~Could you please share with your friend? I did a search and copied and pasted the following and after this is a link on the NMSS site that is specific to her issue and appropriate meds, treatment, etc. Let her know we are here for her. Blessings, kate

Muscle Tension Dysphonia can sound like spasmodic dysphonia, and is much more common than spasmodic dysphonia. MTD can be cured or helped by speech therapy designed to relieve the tension and teach the patient how to use correct speech techniques. MTD can also respond to botox, the normal treatment for SD.

Some people diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia have overcome it with speech therapy and voice work. See "Success Stories" on this site.

The medical profession in general states that spasmodic dysphonia is incurable and can only be treated with botox or surgery. Yet talented voice specialists are proving this is not the case.

Dr. Morton has reported successes for several years, but does not publish success ratios with SD on his website. Patients of vocal coaches, including Love and Catona, have reported success in overcoming spasmodic dysphonia. Recently a speech language pathologist, Connie Pike, was stricken with SD and overcame it with voice therapy and breathing lessons. Love did trial studies with several SD patients, and Connie Pike and Mike White offer an intensive voice and breathing workshop for SD sufferers. Recently, SD patients have reported improvement with the new Zhou's Hypoxicology Therapy (ZHT). As more practitioners are trained and more SD patients try it, we will have a better idea of its success.

Both of the traditional treatments for Spasmodic Dysphonia, botox and surgery, take a healthy body part and damage it in order to make up for a problem elsewhere. Both are expensive. Botox is derived from botulinum toxin, the most deadly poison known to man, and has to be injected into the vocal cords every few months for life. Followups on surgical patients reveals a high rate of return to the original problem, or to even worse problems. http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Brochures-Overcoming.asp----- Original Message -----From: Sharon Marsden Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:48 pmSubject: Question on choking, vocal cordsTo: mserslife > My friend Diane wanted me to forward this email to the group to > see if anyone had any info on this problem she is having. She > has Primary Progressive MS. > > love..> > Sharon> > > > sharon,> > I need to call you cuz it's too long to type here but if you > would post this to your ms group and see if they have any info > i'd appreciate it.> > My ENT dr stuck a tube down my nose and looked at my vocal > chords. He said based on the sound (raspy sounding) of my > voice, and the peek, I guess, lol, he said I have Muscle Tension > Dysphonia. Now, I've googled it and found Spasmodic Dysphonia > as well. I have the adduction sound, not the abduction.> > NO where in my searching so far, have I found anything on > choking/air blocking etc. in> association with the dysphonia things. ENT dr said it's most > likely a neurologica thing (MS) and will get worse. I"ll pass > out and then when the muscle releases, I'll breathe again. > (Whew, isn't that good news?!) BUT, as time goes on, and > muscles stay spasmodic and stiffer and stiffer, I"ll> eventually have to have a trach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > So post this info and see if anyone has any info. NOT looking > for "oh, sorry, etc...." bullshit, sharon, I need FACTS at this > point so I can become knowledgable and make choices and > understand. I also need to call you and fill you in more > details. This is only bottom line stuff.> > xoox me love ya. will call soon. marking you in > daytime..... thanks sharon. thx> > > > Finding fabulous fares is fun.> Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find > flight and hotel bargains.> > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________>