Speech therapy vocal nodules
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I would suggest an ENT evaluation. Singers are prone to vocal fold pathologies. She would want to rule out vocal fold nodules or other problems. She would need a doctor referral to a speech pathologist who provides voice therapy, which offers treatment. There are some articles on good vocal hygiene to try in the meantime.
This can lead to disorders like laryngitis, vocal nodules, vocal polyp and sometimes contact ulcers on the vocal cords. But these changes are reversible if the causative factors are dealt with. And sometimes voice therapy is helpful. You will need to consult your primary care physician for further evaluation, who may then refer you to an ENT specialist.
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I was diagnosed with vocal nodules in March of 2004. After speech therapy and vocal training, I was on the road to recovery, but in the last year I have been bothered with tightness in the back of my head, neck and throat. I am a singer and my life has be dramatically altered. I recently had a BRAVO test done to rule our acid reflux. There was very little acid found.
Problem:
- Can't speak loud/ Can never scream
- Vocal cord completely gets tired even on speaking normally for just 30 minutes
- Have to speak slow in order to pronounce words correctly
- Problem worsening because now when the vocal cord feels uneasy I can't pronounce words with difficult phonemes clearly
- Due to this problem I'm having to loose my friends and I'm not being able to do my job properly as I'm a consultant who has to speak for at least 4 hrs a day
History:
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I have been digonised by nasal endoscopy that there is a small mass or nodule on my left vocal cord and also there must be a gapping between the vocal cords as per my speech therapyist. I have been going for speech therapy for the last 20 days and seem to have improved quit well. How ever my voice is still hoars.
There are some things you can do to promote good vocal health. One is to find a good speech therapist, two is to try to speak in a normal tone of voice, not yelling or whispering (both are bad on vocal chords), and three is watch your diet. Any heartburn is burning the vocal chords too, so be careful :) We want more singers out there!
Had successful radiation therapy on vocal cords. Finished in late August. Still hoarse and it varies as the day goes on. Doctor says it could take a year to really heal so that I know my voice quality.
Wondered if anyone had radiation on vocal cords and can give me some advice or recommendation of something that might help relieve some of the hoarseness. I was told to try speech therapy but it may be to soon. A small bit of alcohol, wine, mouthwash, etc. seems to help.
Hi,
My daughter had bilateral vocal cord nodules for 3 yrs and needed voice therapy. Turned out, in her case, they were aggravated by severe reflux we never knew she had because it never came up high enough into her mouth for her to feel it, yet it came up to the vocal cords and caused massive pain and cont'd nodules.
After 3 mos on Prevacid and a rescope, they went away completely and have never come back!
Good luck and Welcome!
Do you whisper or speak loudly? Do you sing a lot? I am going to speech therapy with my son for a similar problem, but they did find vocal cord nodules on him. The therapist said that you can get the chronic hoarseness for months before you'd actually see the nodules on a scope. Maybe seek help from a speech therapist and if it goes away, then you can forget the cancer worry.
It sounds like you are having trouble with the strength of your vocal cords, or with something blocking the movement of your vocal cords. A speech-language pathologist can determine the cause of your trouble, refer you to a doctor if you need surgery or medication, and provide therapy to help you regain function and get back your singing voice.
The second ENT told me that i had a glottic leak at the posterior third of my vocal cords and he told me to either see a speech therapist (again) or have a botox (or alike) injections. The third ENT told me that my vocal cords are fine but they Don't vibrate normaly and according to him, i'm suffuring from hormones lack so he told me to do a hormonal dosage and see a speech therapist (once again), fine then, i went to a laboratory to do a hormonal dosage and guess what?
They do voice therapy for patients with vocal nodules, not just for strokes. The lessons you learn there help you to use your voice more carefully and how to prevent any damage to the vocal chords. Just take your time easing in to different ranges - a little at a time each day and you'll seen improvement.
I have never heard of anyone just having nodules removed (doesn't mean it doesn't exist). The usual procedures are a total thyroidectomy or a partial thyroidectomy (often just one lobe).
Do you have Hashi's? Have you had the antibody bloodwork done (TPOab and TGab)? Most people with Hashi's have nodules, and the nodules are just watched to make usre they stay consistent with Hashi's.
I have done much research and the best you can do is start speech therapy immediately to help you strengthen around the vocal area...request a swallow test as well and keep your spirit up....in all I have read, most of the time, the voice returns...it is a long and very painstaking process to recovery...and I just fall apart some days ( I am a teacher) and then I raise up my head and believe that my voice will return. It is just exhausting each day to speak or exert...so I am hearing your pain..
What you are describing is a brain injury, not injured vocal chords. If you were stuttering due to vocal chord injuries, you wouldn't be able to sing or read what you've written. Your vocal chords sounds completely fine.
Stuttering commonly occurs in adults after a TBI. This is really something a cognitive therapist who specializes in adults with brain injury could help you most with.
I did, and there was no point. Do go to an ENT and get speech therapy if you can. It seemed to help. Also, sing sometimes, it seemed to help excercise the voice as much as the speech therapy.
It's frustrating, though. People completely ignore you when you can't talk loudly enough, especially people in stores. Remember who messes with you, and then you can go back and yell at them later (lol).
Only then I had a weekend wrestling tournament for one of my sons that I attended, I concentrated very hard NOT to yell, when I went to bed Saturday night tired, but my voice was fine, but woke up hoarse and stayed that way for 5 days! That was it. I truly believe that these nodules were squeezing off my vocal nerves, so I thought that now I wanted to try to remove at least the right side of my thyroid with the three large nodules it in.
s my question. Thinking maybe I had vocal cord nodules I saw an ENT who only told me I had some mild edema. But I hadn't even thought this could be thyroid related--and someone told me that an ENT checking your vocal cords with a scope will NOT see a thyroid nodule--that would take an ultrasound to detect.
Is this true? Any reasonably cheap way just to FIND OUT if have a thyroid nodule?
Thanks!!!
Thank you for the information. I was diagnosed in June as having vocal cord nodules that are also called singer nodules. They are on both sides of the vocal cords and appear small, and benign. I was told from the ENT, that this is why I have the hoarse voice. Since it was not improving I requested a sonogram of my thyroid.I had it done last week.
(as one learns in voice training) yields atonal growls
-Must use excessive muscular effort to project my voice across a room
-Pitch instability when sustaining a pitch and drastic voice breaks when sliding from pitch to pitch
-Feeling of discomfort, inflexibility, strain, almost like a grinding feeling in my throat when talking at normal pitch
-Voice very quickly fatigues (within a minute or two of talking)
After quick googling, I would think it was vocal nodules.
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