My voice :(

Hey, guys! I really damaged my voice last week, singing when I thought my cold had subsided. This is one of the more sucky things that could have happened to me while trying to get my band together to gig again. It's been pretty bad since Wed night with no clear end in sight. It's caused me a lot of anger and grief. I need help to get better soon. My voice is one of my true defining characteristics. Without it, I feel like less of a person. Less than myself. Any good thoughts or healing Force you could send my way, would be appreciated.

Honey...Lemon and try to keep relaxed.

Grab a large glass, add hot water, rhum, (natural) brown sugar, lemon juice. mix it and drink. Also avoid using your voice (for talking or singing). And smoking. Should do the trick, an tastes better than the stuff you get at the chemist's.

I agree with the lemon and honey. 1 drop of lemon oil per teaspoon of honey and swallow.
There is also an oil called bergamot that will help, you can take it in a similar manner as the lemon oil, but they must be Certified Pure Theraputic Grade oils to be safe to take internally, which you cannot buy from a store but must order online.
Simple lemon juice you extract yourself will be more beneficial than the lemon juice you can buy bottled at the store. You'll need more juice than just a drop as it will not be as concentrated.

I hope you feel better soon.

Lemon juice must be fresh, and therefore full of vitamins!

I recommend ginger, lemon and honey tea.

The Force will be with you, always.

Thank you for your help, fellow Jedi! It is very much appreciated.

And do not fret, for what events have no beneficial opportunities and reason? A time given for rest is a time well worth it to regain strength, energy, and clarity.

Be careful using lemon, it is acidic and in larger amounts can worse the irritation. Honey added to earl grey (bergamot) tea or rose hip tea. nothing too hot or too cold. And as my mother always told me..."for god sake shut up!" :evil:

Yeah, not using my voice has proved much harder than I thought. Being a guy, not talking comes so much easier, I thought. I don't even have to talk much at all doing massage for a living. Yet, since I can't use my voice, it makes want to talk that much more! Sucks, I find I can't even listen to music cuz it incites my envy! It's been pretty depressing.

The throat chakra is the healing one, it vibrate on the green frenquencies... You should meditate and reactivate it properly. Do a proper grounding and while doing a meditation focused on green things (as plants and trees, emerald-pure green things). While thinking to it, open your throat chakra and let the green light "filtering" through you. After, think to your vocal cords, and imagine them surrounded in this green and pure light... Let the light healling them.

It's a simple chakra technic, a reiki form or a biofeedback technic (many names for the same technic). If you are already trained to meditations/chakra... you'll heal in "no time" or real extra fast.

MTFBWY

Several internationally renowned vocal coaches have told me that steaming is the best method - boil some water, put it in a bowl/open container in front of you, cover your head and the bowl with a tea towel or something similar to trap the steam and inhale the steam for a while. It works best if you do it in the evening before bed, and if you do it every day until your voice is better.

If you try to sing whilst still recovering ease your voice into it by warming up with some humming and doing some exercises on vowel sounds really really quietly, starting in the lower parts of your range where it should be easier and then only going higher once you feel comfortable. It will make things a lot easier, promise!

Hope your voice is feeling better soon

Yeah, I have some bulk eucalyptus leaves I did that with. Unfortunately I think I blew out my voice pretty bad. It's never been this bad! So its scary. Makes me think I did some permanent damage. We shall see!

Just go for the booze. It will:

-disinfect
-increase blood flow
-Make you pass out, preventing you from using your voice.

:woohoo:

Unfortunately it also drys the vocal chords of the essential thin lining of mucous! Oh believe me, if it would help, I'd be downing the single malt since I can't partake of my sweet sweet ganjika!

Does it? I always have a grog, it never seemed to have a negative impact.

Eat the ganja instead of smoking it. That is, if you still care about your voice

Aye! But yer not a singer, are ye? I can honestly say I've never ordered a Grogg here in the good ole USA, where our beer is water and lumped in with draughts, and bitters etc. Before I started learning about vocal care, I used to down a hefeweisen with lemon before I sang at a gig. I'm not so sure that's the best option, now. If I regain my full vocal range again, I'm taking professional care of voice. Not drinking or smoking till after!

Amy winehouse was a singer. :laugh:

Yup, she also didn't have my vocal range to care for. She had a good whiskey vocal range, like Joe Cocker. I'm a counter tenor who hangs in a baritone most of the time. My vocals are all over the place.