I am a forty-five-year-old female who has been suffering the past three years with a voice disorder called Spasmodic Dysphonia. I have been to numerous doctors. I have done everything from acupuncture to Botox injections in my throat. This is a condition that has no cure, just treatments.
You really don’t realize how important your voice is until you start losing it. My voice is very important to my career because I am a teacher. Dealing with this has made me lose all confidence in myself and my teaching ability. I struggle daily to keep from sinking into a state of depression, especially on really bad days. My faith in God and the realization that it could always be worse is what gets me by.
I am hoping to hear from someone with similar problems and try to get a support group started. It is hard to go it by yourself.
