MS and Voice

[LATW]

Has MS has any effect on your singing voice?  I used to be able to carry a pretty good tune but not any more. ;(

LA

[opie74]

My voice is higher.  I have always been a strong alto.  I can even sing tennor at times.  In the past year, I have been singing sopranno.  I had sinus surgery, and I can now resonate the higher stuff.  But, like everyone else is saying...it is an effort to hold a strong note for 8 counts.  This used to be nothing for me.  The lower notes take more breath, and I cna't hold them for more than 6 counts these days.  I get winded sometimes just talking.  There is no way that I can carry on a conversation on the tread mill like I used to.

[deborah0904]

I notice that my singing voice is not very good anymore.  I don't have control over volume and my voice is not very smooth.  It stinks!

[Eyesnlegs]

I have been a singer all my life and frequently sang solo pieces. My voice was powerful and rich according to my audiences.

I now struggle not just because the voice is not as powerful and doesn't always come out when I open my mouth - but the ON prevents me from feeling confident as often I get double vision, saying I will do a solo puts me under stress which makes everything else worse - double vision looking at an audience can amke you feel very nauseous and to cap it all Christmas 2007 I forgot my words - I got through it but those in the audience who knew the song had noticed.

Now that knocks your confidence  - but I am still battling on in a choir as it is good exercise.

[syndismilez]

I sing weekly. I notice some days are good. Some days are really bad.
After an hour of singing, my voice will shake and be very unstable. Just like my legs
after exercise. It gets tired. So when I notice my voice getting tired, it's time to rest.
When I feel bad my voice is usually soft and a little hoarse.
I do believe you voice can be affected by MS. Which always bums me out because when I need to sing or paint the most, I get trembley and can't do it very well.
Big bummer for me.  
Cyn

[PastorDan]

Well, I am undx, but since I've been suspicious that MS might be the problem, my singing seems to have improved.  My wife thinks I should have my hearing tested again. ;D

[jdhecaj]

I don't seem to have control of volume of my voice. My voice is very soft & sometimes it doesn't come out when I greet someone or in starting a conversation, it takes a while for it to get going. Talking & standing is tough most of the time, but sometimes I can do it. If I stopped to talk to my neighbor, I live in apt so neighbors are close, I generally need to lean against the wall while I talk. It is an effort to get volume up, no other way for me to describe it...it is an effort.

At first I was investigating this and read that the brainstem is in charge of the "vital force" in breathing. So I thought maybe I wasn't breathing deeply enough for volume. Then Ted Kennedy had that Paratial Lobe tumour & I read how affected his voice is from that. I do have quite a bit of lesions in the Parietal lobe, which is the lobe responsible for the bodies interpretation of self or the environment. I was diagnosed 19 years after onset, which I have read is common to have lesions in the parietal lobe, because it is a lot of sensations that a person just ignores through the years, nothing dramatic, tingling and stuff.

I think 19 years late it took a big whack at my speaking voice.

I never could sing. In elementary school, during plays & stuff the nuns told me to lip synch, not to sing. :-o

[saveone]

I just talked about this in the post about swallowing.  It was based upon what the speech pathologist has told me this week

terry

[diemyn]

I sure hope that's it. I was starting to think that I'd never been able to carry a tune and no one had let me know. My voice is a lot more flat now too. It's low and people think I have an attitude, but I don't know how to get it to be a high cute girl voice most of the time. IT never used to seem like such an effort, but now it is. Since MS can affect muscles and you use those to talk and sing I'm sure it could be cause of that.