I am not sure I would want to recommend laser treatments. I heard that it can increase pitch by 2 semitones and make the voice less "boomy", but it causes some scarring on the vocal chords which means that the voice could become a bit hoarse or raspy. But I am no expert in that. Someone I know was suggested this as a minimally invasive treatment by Dr Thomas actually, so he does that, but she did not think it was worth it.
alex, I would be so happy, if I were you. Only bugger that maybe you could have found out about this before you went through all the trouble of saving up money and organizing a trip to Korea
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- But then again, Seoul certainly is a interesting place for a short vacation. From how it sounds to me you did not really get a drop in voice in puberty, so you are very lucky. But you learned how to speak in a lowered and maculine sounding voice, in part deliberatly. On the upside this basically just means you have to unlearn these patterns and you will be naturally female sounding. On the downside it means that you probably still would need some voice therapy. Maybe you dont even have to do all the things that are done in trans-specific voice training but just learn how to use your voice in a physiological (natural, fitting to your larynx biology) way. This is something a lot of people are doing in voice therapy. You can certainly try Lenas suggestion or
youtube.search for the CandiFla videos or even check out the old Melanie Anne Phillips voice lessons. They all operate on the concept of using the larynx muscles differently so that the larynx moves up a bit. A common way to do this is to go into that falsetto range where the male resonance goes away, you described this already and then keep the resonance and lower the voice again. Also relaxing the jaw seems to work great. But I think the best would be you take some of the money you wanted to spend on Dr Kim and get a good voice therapist and book a couple of lessons with her and you probably will be fine. What may be needed are some additional lessons or hours on liberating other parts of the voice like intonation, melody and such - people regarded as males are trained to speak in a different way and that also has to be unlearned. Again a speech therapist may help there, though maybe for that it would be beneficial to have one with gender related experiences.
So dont be sad that Dr Kim could not help, be happy that he did not need to help
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Bummer about the trmor though - what does it result in, what does it do to your voice? Is it really having a negative effect that much and would that be alleviated with Botox? He told me I have a tremor too in the remote consultation, but I think almost all who went to him had such a tremor and got botox after VFS - I think it is also why the voices change still abit between the official 2 months post op videos and 6 months, as the botox wears off and some aspects of the voice that were softened are returning. But would botox not also cause a loss in loudness and intensity of the voice?
Maybe vocal termour can also be somehow be managed with voice training?
Anyways I am again glad that Dr Kim seems to be rather honest - he did not just take the money and do a surgery but aimed to have the best result for the people who come to him. Thats good. He basically told me to not have the VFS at this time due to some voice issues as well, so I get the feeling he will really only do the procedure if he is convinced it will be beneficial and work out.
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