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AshenMusic

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  1. All right, So I got to put the party on the shelf for some time. I can live with that. About the humidifier, Joanna mentioned, which one to buy if you got no money, and should it be turned on all night, or just before I go to sleep?
  2. Thank you for the comforting post, Joanna. My speech therapist tells me that I'm getting better still at talking and singing. So I guess it's going in the right direction. But something is still confusing me; when I'm out getting my drink on, with loud music, loud talking and maybe even acoustic guitars and singing a little bit (I want to test my voice now and then, to see how it feels in my throat), then I actually feel fine in the moment AND the day after. I'm not very hoarse, and my burning throat-sensation is not there. But then, when a couple of days have gone by, I start to feel the burning again, and my throat feels very tired very quickly from almost no talking at all. It's every morning when I awake, and then it seems to go away during the day. Some mornings it's not there, but then again, most mornings it is. How come this pattern? Shouldn't I be feeling the consequences of my drinking, loud talking and singing, the day after? Or is this burning-sensation and tiredness not coming from my clubbing, but maybe from something I breath when I sleep, or something completely else?? I hope someone can give me a word of advice, because it seems that my acid reflux medicin is not taking care of the burning in my throat, as the doctor thought it would.
  3. Thanks for your answer! Actually I just visited my ENT yesterday. And he said that the "pre-nodules" we're totally gone. He also said that I was kinda red at the back of my vocal cords, indicating that I might have a tiny problem with acid reflux. But I strongly doubt that, seeing that I never experience acid regurgitation in my mouth. So It's sounds kinda far fetched to me. But I am on the medication against acid reflux once again, And I'm planning to stay that for a long while now. I still don't get why I'm experiencing all this burning in my throat though! My ENT also said that my voice was not over puberty yet, and that that was maybe the reason, why I have this pain when I'm speaking thorugh a whole day. Do any of you have experience with this, or any advice in this direction??
  4. First of all, what a great forum. This is just the place I have been looking for. My name is Jens, I'm 23 and I live in Denmark, Copenhagen. My problem is that I constantly have a burning sensation in my throat. This interferes in my every day life. I used to sing and talk at a regular basis - but now I can't do those things anymore. I don't know what to do, and the experts cannot give me any clear advise of what needs to be done in order to overcome my throat condition. My background story; It started 2 years back. I was a smoker - 20 a day. But suddenly I was diagnosed with faryngit. Which meant that I had to stop smoking. So back then my throat showed signs of weakness. But it didn't interfere with my singing nor my speaking. The faryngit went way when I hadn't smoked for a couple of days. So not that big a problem. I used to sing at a regular basis in my rock band. I'd never received any form of singing lessons. But I managed to sing a lot anyways. And I loved it. Then one year after the faryngit it slowly started to hurt a little bit in my throat, when I recorded in the studio. This pain worsened as the months went by. Then the pain started to come when I had to raise my voice (as an elementary-school teacher) in the classroom. Six months ago, I started to feel so troubled by this pain, just by speaking, that I went to see en ENT. She told me that I had small "dots" on my vocal cords. It was a pre-stadium to nodules. So she put me on a lot of medication to stop my mucous membrane from being so inflamed. I both took pills and used inhalers. But none of this medication did anything to the still growing pain in my throat. It only got worse. I was sent to a doctor that stuck a tube down my throat, just to tell me that it had nothing to do with "reflux". My stomach was working fine. So I was sent to a speech teacher, and her I have seen for 4 months now. She discovered that my speech technique was very much damaging to my vocal cords. But since then I have improved a lot by learning using my support. I haven't mastered it at all yet - but i'm getting better still, stretching and exercising two times a day with lip trills and so on. But recently, as I still felt no improvement to the still growing burning in my throat, I tried taking a total silent period of 9 days. No taking or speaking or even laughing! I was told by a professionel singing teacher that that would remove the small nodules on my vocal chords, which probably was causing my throat-problem. BUT after the 9 days I'm still feeling a burning sensation + a significant "lump" sitting in my throat. It is worsened when singing or speaking, but not bettered when taking a silent break. This fact frustrates the hell out of me! I have started running 2 times a week, and I'm now eating food which is mainly "base" based and i'm trying to stay away from very acid filled food, such as meat and eggs and so on. I take vitamin pills and fish-oil pills every day. But i'm starting to get very frustrated and depressed. I am scared that there is something fundamentally broken in my throat, perhaps caused by me smoking. I really could use some advice! I play in a band, as the lead singer and we're about to really make it. So that stresses me a lot! If I can't do this, my whole life is in ruins. It's my whole future... I can't even work a day job right now, because the pain is there constantly and is unbearable when I have spent a whole day speaking! What can I do, when silence and "support-exercises" does not seem to do the trick alone? I really hope someone will take the time to read this! It would mean a lot to me. And excuse my english! Thanks in advance, Jens Høy, Denmark
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