Voice Therapy: Very sore throat, hard to swallow and I felt a "pop"

[antonia]

Over the course of the last 3 months I've moved up an octet and changed my voice quite a bit, I've had a sore throat for the last week and today I felt a big "pop" and now it hurts to swallow, anyone ever had this happen to them?

Is it possible I'm moving to fast and possibly damaging my voice?

[MeganChristine]

You might be feeling the sensation of Botox leaving you... I had that popping feeling a lot! Then came the insane feeling of fatigue in my throat. Like if I've been chewing on truck load of gummy bears. After that I got hoarse, and first now... half way into month 4 are things getting better.

I'm just on the Clonazepam...

[anjaq]

You should add to the start of the thread that this is about voice surgery and with what technique/surgeon, if that is whati it is - otherwise it would be quite confusing.

[antonia]

Hmm thought the area I posted in was Voice surgery / Voice Therapy, I'll modify thx

You should add to the start of the thread that this is about voice surgery and with what technique/surgeon, if that is whati it is - otherwise it would be quite confusing.

[anjaq]

Ah well - the subforum is about voice therapy and about voce surgery and I think it helps to clarify what the topic is exactly - does not have to be in the title of the thread, but i gues sif you describe it in the post a bit more closely - it helps others.

so in your case you are doing voice therapy and no surgery but sou are self training and not with a professional voice pathologist and you experienced that weird sensation? I would say this is a warning sign then that you are overdoing it and that you may even be doing something wrong. Voice training can be a bit straining , but should only be so due to trying different stuff for a while - the voice that comes from it should not be straining, if it does it can lead to long term problems.

[antonia]

I'm doing voice training on my own, waitlists here for voice therapy are around a year, any singers/professionals get to jump the line :p

I went full time in June and since then I've been slowly raising and changing my voice, I've never had any issues but today this happened and it really shocked me and left me wondering what is happening. I'll try resting for the weekend and see if it recovers, at this point I'm not even sure I can go back to my old voice :p

Ah well - the subforum is about voice therapy and about voce surgery and I think it helps to clarify what the topic is exactly - does not have to be in the title of the thread, but i gues sif you describe it in the post a bit more closely - it helps others.

so in your case you are doing voice therapy and no surgery but sou are self training and not with a professional voice pathologist and you experienced that weird sensation? I would say this is a warning sign then that you are overdoing it and that you may even be doing something wrong. Voice training can be a bit straining , but should only be so due to trying different stuff for a while - the voice that comes from it should not be straining, if it does it can lead to long term problems.

[anjaq]

Ah - well maybe you broke a barrier then. Did you have trouble reaching higher notes before? What was your absolute upper pitch limit?

[antonia]

I went for a conservative A3 (220hz), I used to sing in a choir so my vocal range is about F2 to A4, I don't really have to strain much at all hence my surprise.

Ah - well maybe you broke a barrier then. Did you have trouble reaching higher notes before? What was your absolute upper pitch limit?