Are there exercises you can do to keep your voice strong?!
Question:
Are there exercises you can do to keep your voice strong?
If I talk too loudy, my voice will go out or be rasbpy for days at a time. I sound like I am getting laryngitis but do not have any sickness and this has been going on for about 2-3 weeks. I do not smoke either. My voice seems simply strained from over use, but I do NOT overly use it. I to talk to people just like I always have but lately it seems its weakening and I have less voice range. What could this be? I have four young kids I need to raise, I can NOT loose my voice!
Answers:
Have you had any surgery recently that required doctors to insert tubing down your throat?
I know of cases where during such routine procedures the vocal cords were damaged inadvertently. In my grandmother's case, she didn't even realize her vocal cords were damaged until two years after the initial surgery, but she experienced symptoms very similar to the kind you describe. All she had to do was to carry on a normal conversation and her voice would become more and more strained.
Eventually she had this fixed through surgery.