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20 Apr 04 - 05:13 AM (#1165854) Subject: Vocal Botox From: Roger the Skiffler Someone on the radio this morning claims they can improve voices by injecting fat from the stomach into the throat. Maybe my hour has come and they can kill two birds with one stone! (or two stone!). RtS (Sorry, sir, your voice is fatter but still out of tune and now your stomach rumbles flat!) |
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20 Apr 04 - 05:18 AM (#1165858) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: LindsayInWales blimey, that sort of thing can put you off your breakfast...!!! |
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20 Apr 04 - 05:23 AM (#1165863) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: freda underhill if you're worried about tense, strangulating throat muscles, magnesium tablets (from a chemist or health shop) are a muscle relaxant and would help, without having to resort to anything more extreme. BTW, they also assist with period pains. |
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20 Apr 04 - 05:35 AM (#1165868) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Steve Parkes Roger, unless you 've put on a lot of weight since we met, you only have one bird to kill. (Although it's a big 'un!) Freda, I think when Roger sings he's in more danger of strangulation from somebody else's muscles! Steve |
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20 Apr 04 - 09:30 AM (#1166062) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Roger the Skiffler Thank you,Steve (I think!). Since retiring, my walking regime maages to counteracting my occasional (ahem!) drink so I keep steady at 11 stone, but most of it seems around my waistline! RtS |
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20 Apr 04 - 10:55 AM (#1166142) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Mary in Kentucky I didn't hear this program, but I heard some time ago that Botox injections in the vocal cords via the back of the neck was helpful to patients with various conditions where the vocal cords don't completely close. I sometimes have a condition where speech is very breathy (not sexy), just out-of-breath sounding. |
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20 Apr 04 - 04:50 PM (#1166451) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Stilly River Sage Check out Diane Rehm at NPR. I've posted about her treatments elsewhere on Mudcat, and she has information on her web site. The web page includes information about her book, Finding My Voice, and from the site comes this:
SRS |
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20 Apr 04 - 07:21 PM (#1166603) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: GUEST,DavidfromSydney(guest) I read somewhere in an interview by Linda Thompson that she also had Botox injections in the throat to counteract the same problem. I have her recent CD and her voice sounds fantastic - so the treatment seems to work David |
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21 Apr 04 - 12:36 AM (#1166798) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Liz the Squeak Well I've heard of people talking through their ass but...........! LTS |
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21 Apr 04 - 04:05 AM (#1166869) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Roger the Skiffler Actuall, young Steve, my blues voice has been compared to Terry, McGhee, McDowell and Wolf. Sadly, it was Ellen Terry, Henry McGhee, Roddy McDowell and Virginia Woolf! RtS (remember those lovely couples: Ellen & Sonny Terry, Debby & Brownie McGhee, Andi & Mississippi Fred Mcdowell & Virginia & Howlin' Wolf? What a dinner party!) |
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21 Apr 04 - 09:46 AM (#1167097) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Steve Parkes No, I'm too young! |
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21 Apr 04 - 06:06 PM (#1167306) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: GUEST,Nickp Yes, Linda Thompson has used it - with some success as I was fortunate enough to have seen/heard her live last May. She said in a newspaper interview that she was wary about it and would be careful not to overdo it. |
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12 Apr 11 - 03:36 AM (#3133511) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Someone close to me has spasmodic dysphonia. He used to be a soul/jazz singer, with a quite extraordinary voice, able to mimic anything and everything too. It's almost destroyed him to have this condition....and he now has Botox injections for it, which do bring his voice back for a few months at a time. For the first few weeks it's hard to swallow, and drinking anything makes you cough, but then things start to settle down. Often the only way people with this condition can speak is to use the higher vocal chords, so you get a Minnie Mouse kind of voice, which causes far less pain when speaking. It's also associated with the same part of the brain which causes stuttering...and is so very often linked with nerves and a nervous disposition. What really makes me angry though is that when the Botox starts to wear off, and the croaky voice comes back, people talk to him as if he's 'simple' or has something mentally wrong with him. It's a very very hard thing for sufferers to deal with and it starts off a vicious circle of acute nervousness when speaking, which can sometimes lead to people not wanting to go out, because communicating becomes so very hard for them and they just can't take the odd looks. |
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12 Apr 11 - 07:41 PM (#3134035) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: kendall It didn't work for me, I simply absorbed it. |
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13 Apr 11 - 02:51 AM (#3134143) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Lizzie Cornish 1 I'm not saying this is the reason it didn't work for you, but it can often takes a few goes to get the dosage right, kendall. |
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13 Apr 11 - 03:02 AM (#3134147) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: Genie On the surface it sounds counterindicated, as botox basically paralyzes the affected muscles. I guess if you can be very selective in which muscles are treated with the botox and which are not, it could be helpful, but I would expect a good many "unexpected and undesired consequences." But what do I know? |
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13 Apr 11 - 08:50 AM (#3134295) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: kendall I had more than one go at it. |
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25 Sep 11 - 01:22 PM (#3228767) Subject: RE: Vocal Botox From: GUEST I used to have a good voice but damaged it through cocaine use when I was younger, as it gave me a bad habit of clearing my nose and throat, it was disgusting and Im ashamed of myself for doing it but I am gutted as my singing voice is nothing like it used to be, do you think Botox could help me get my voice back ? |