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Im a professional singer its all ive ever loved and done post thyroidectomy and i cant sing
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Aug 02, 2009 - 10:13 pm
I Cant sing I am devastated beyond words, there was no vocal nerve damage I can only figure its due to muscle damage from my muscles being cut to get my thyroid out? I have alot of people depending on me producers,songwriters,musicians and charities I am scheduled to do a huge event in sept for our troops and I dont know what to do. Is my voice gone forever? Or is this temporary? My Dr told me to sing i wont hurt anything, well i sound like a screeching cat and i had a beautiful powerful voice my entire life Im a natural. can someone please tell me the truth am i going to ever sing again. If i had known this would happen I would of opted to leave it in there sound crazy well it isnt I am a singer it is who I am without it I am not me all my dreams all my everything would be gone life as i know it not worth it to me...So i need advise what to do here yes its only been 14 days post op but something is definitely wrong, I have my reg voice back its very strange but I have no vocal control when singing its horrible!!!! Some one please write to me and tell me what to do, cancer has taken my voice.Micheleann |
Joined: Jun 2009
I don't think any of us can "tell you the truth" because the truth is unknowable.
Some of us have short-term problems with our voices--speaking and/or singing. Some of us have no problems and some of us have permanent damage. Only time will tell.
I sympathize with you and I wish I could give you good news but, as I said, only time will tell.
My opinion--your doctors should have warned you about possible problems. As someone whose voice is your livelyhood you should have been given options--find the best surgeon in the country and take a chance, or chose one of the more risky therapies that don't require a thyroidectomy. The skill and experience of the surgeon can make a huge difference in the outcome.
For example, my ENT-surgeon told me up front that he takes a conservative approach. He will leave a little tissue behind rather than risk damage to the vocal chords. I liked his approach and signed on to it. His thinking was that the small bits he leaves behind will be killed by subsequent RAI ablations. In my case our gamble didn't pay off. My cancer proved to be resistant to RAI (rare) so it came back and now I'm in an experimental chemotherapy clinical trial. But my voice recovered from the surgery and was almost normal until the recurrent cancer damaged my vocal chords more than two years later. You pays your money and takes your chances.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that you (1) had a highly skilled surgeon and (2) the damage to your singing voice is temporary.
I wish you the best of luck.
Joined: Aug 2009
This is my own personal experience:
I am also a singer and had a total thyroidectomy in late January of this year. I also had RAI in April. My endo had w