Hey, I’m Georg and about 3 years ago I injured my voice while singing. For about 2 years I haven’t been able to talk without pain and swelling feeling at all so I’ve not talked at all. I’ve consulted with my doctors and they’ve told me to exercise speaking regularly even if there’s pain but I want to spread my story to get second opinions. I used to sing a lot for several years before my injury. Some days even about 3 hours a day. Went to singing school sometimes, learn a bit of the (CVT vocal technique) One evening, I started to sing and my voice was not that great that day and I also drank a milk product before what causes my throat to produce a lot of mucus and thick feeling. I tried to sing one high note, but I couldn't reach it, so I squeezed my neck and vocal chords to get that high note and that’s how I injured my voice. From that day on my vocal injury has gone worse to the point that for 2 years now, I haven’t been speaking at all. Just a couple of words in one year. The reason for it is now when I speak, my vocal chords and thyroid area get “swollen” and painful(nerve pinching pain). I put swollen in brackets, because I’ve been to a laryngoscope and the camera didn’t detect any swelling in my vocal chords when they looked at it. And also they didn’t find anything other than couple of granulomas(not on the vocal chords) which could have been caused by some food intolerance. The vocal chords were just weak and atrophied. Going back to 2021 when I firstly injured my voice. The symptoms then were similar, there was the swelling feeling, and nerve pain. (it’s really weird to me that there was no swelling detected on camera, because when I get the swelling feeling, my whole throat feels so swollen. I even got a thyroid ultrasound, but nothing was detected there) So back then, basically I still could use my voice after the injury. So I had to not speak for a couple of weeks and then the swelling feeling went away. And I could practice again and talk. But as time went on. The swelling came back and back. I gave it more and more rest, to make the swelling go away.(one doctor back then even said that don’t stop speaking, but for me it didn’t make sense cause my throat felt so swollen and nerve pinching pain was quite bad). So I gave it more and more rest and as the time went on, about a year from the injury, I could only speak about 20 minutes a day. And it was difficult to avoid the swelling feeling and pain away, so I gave it more and more rest, until it became so bad that last year I couldn’t even laugh and this swelling feeling came back. It has since got minimally better now, but still I can only laugh about 5 times a day or less. My question is, if I start to practice again and ignore the swelling feeling in my throat and the nerve pain, would it injure me even more. That’s what I’m worried about. If someone told me that “100%, you will not injure your voice more when practicing through the pain”, then I would start. The last doctor said exactly that, but I needed to get a second opinion somewhere else, because I’m scared to injure my vocal chords even worse, to the point that I could lose my vocal chords forever. Thank you for reading it the whole way through and I would love to hear your opinion! Thank you in advance! :)
Hi Georg, we are so sorry to hear that you have been experiencing this for quite some time now. We definitely do not recommend ignoring or pushing through the pain and swelling as there is a reason for it occurring in the first place. We would absolutely love to help you get to the root cause of the issue, by coming into our office you would at a minimum have a proper diagnosis and treatment plan in place, giving you some answers! If you find that you can travel to our office, please reach out to us directly and someone from our clinical team (they are wonderful) can learn more about your case and help you get scheduled. In the meantime please know that we are praying for your complete healing and that you can one day use your voice to full capacity again!
I have thoracic instability causing pain it all started from using an inversion table if i stop using that and wear a brace for next 2 montgs would it heal the ligament ? Or help it heal
So sorry to hear this! It really depends! Stopping the use of that and a brace would definitely help it from worsening however it is most likely that regeneration (Prolotherapy) would need to happen for healing to occur. Ligament damage is degenerative which means it will continue to worsen over time, that constant wear and tear.
@@CaringmedicalProlotherapy so without prolotherapy it's impossible for it to heal? I mean I live in India and the place I live in there are some spacialist that specialise in prolotherapy but I am not sure how safe it is to use near the spine is it okay ?
Good day, caring medical. I've watched tons of your videos. I have forward head posture & it is severe. I see that your treatment protocol is prolotherapy first & then after a while, cervical curve correction with weights. In South Africa, prolotherapy isn't accessible / available here. I am very concerned about my neck. If I just did curve correction - as this is what is available for me- would that be sufficient for healing my cervical instability?I just want my health & life back!
This is a great question! First, it is wonderful that you are looking into alternatives! Secondly, it really depends on the severity of your instability. Sometimes individuals just need curve corrections while others just need Prolotherapy and sometimes they need both. This is not something that we can determine over the internet but curve correction might be a good place to start if you have a poor curve
@@CaringmedicalProlotherapy God bless you all!! Thanks sooo much for replying! It takes a lot of courage to even write to you. All the years, I had No warning signs such as head or neck pain which means I only went for x-rays like a month ago! It has however affected my mental health & made me anhedonic & given me mild depression. The thing that pushed me to seek help is the small (quite small) bullseye rashes throughout my body. So I'm suspecting it's lyme disease& as I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few yrs back & from my research that is a comorbity of lyme. My reason for sharing this about myself is so that others experiencing neck issues can know that it gives u psychiatric symptoms too! Something I would've never thought of had it not been for caring medical! (when Dr hauser said forwd head posture causes Anhedonia, that was a light bulb moment for me)!! Keep praying & doing research Everyone, don't give up Ever!! . And Caring medical, Please Keep doing what you're doing for humanity!! 🙏 It took a lot out of me to write this (mentally) but I'm pushing this msg out! Sending Lotsa love ♥️
is the patient asleep during the injections in this video or are they awake and just numbed? if not... can u do it asleep or do we have to do it awake and how much pain will that patient have after.... from the injection?
