Re: *Voice (was:Re: Big Brother

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I also am not ablke to hardly hold a note stamina wise...is this true for

all of you guys too?

I have to take about 5 breaths where most would take only one...

~Inga

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> Yep, same here. I almost won a prerequisite to the Miss Tx pageant on

> account of my voice way back there. It wasn't until I got thyroid disease

> that I began to have all kinds of trouble with my voice. I spent a lot of

> my life singing, though no major engagements of that sort, but when my

> throat started doing these strange things 2 or 3 yrs ago, at the same time

> that I never felt good again, I lost my singing voice. I never know when my

> voice will break or go off key, and I am now in my 50s, so I did have a good

> singing voice for all that time, until then. Sometimes, like today, it

> still feels like there is something in my throat, both in the lymph nodes at

> my jaw line, and in the thyroid area, then sometimes it all shrinks. It is

> so weird.

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>> on 11/30/04 5:10 AM, nc2406@... at nc2406@... wrote:

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>>> that was the third surgery I have canceled. one was for surgery on my

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>>> cords because of HOARSENESS back when I was in my late 20s. The doc

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>>> had nodules on my vocal cords. I just canceled it...said no thank you.

>>> Hoarseness...hmmm...now what is that a symptom of ? Hashimoto's

> perhaps?

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>> When I was a little girl, I used to go and call for my brother and

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>> no sound at all would come out. My mom took me to the Ear/Nose/Throat

>> specilsit and he had said " She has nodes on her vocal chords "

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>> As I got older I trained myself to sing, and got to where I was doing

> light

>> opera.....so not too bad a voice.

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>> After not singing for a few years, when I now try to, at certain pitches,

>> just these awful, horrible gurgle-tune sounds come out, and they are

>> completely unpredictable and uncontrolable. Just real horrible sounds,

> LOL!

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>> Does this stuff all sound like it might be thyroid related???

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>> Hoping to be able to sing again someday,

>> Inga

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