Vocal Cord Dysfunction Quotes

Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.

Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.

I've had cysts on my vocal chords.

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

I already have a very low, raspy voice for a girl. When I'm sick, it sounds even raspier.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.