Vocal Help: Cysts?
Vocal Help: Cysts?
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#0Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:22pm
I would ask my voice teacher this first, but I don't have a lesson for another week...
Since I was born, I have had a cyst in my left sinus cavity. It makes it so everytime I get a cold, I eventually get a sinus infection.
Anyway, I have a sinus infection right now, and my doctor says that if I get another one this year, I have to have surgery to take it out. I don't think it will affect my chest voice at all, but my question is: what do you think will happen to my head voice? Since the vibrations while singing in head voice occur in my sinus cavities, do you think it will help to get it removed, or might it hinder me in any way?
This is my junior year, and the last thing I want to do is hinder my development while I'm getting geared up for college.
#1re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 2:30pmBlair, I would discuss this with your voice teacher and he might know of an ear, nose and throat doctor he could recommend. And at that time, it's always best to get a second opinion, as well.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:01pm
Joan Sutherland had similar problems I think - Take out a biography on her..... I believe they had to be scraped numerous times due to multiple cysts....this was in the early 1960's and she was about to be HUGE so you can imagine the anxiety this caused... - I am SURE they have come up with something easier now...
You will have to stop singing for a time even speaking and then you'll be fine...
Better the sinus then the cords!
Updated On: 8/30/05 at 03:01 PM
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#3re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:14pm
The amazing soprano Monserrat Caballe also had the same kind of issues when she had surgery, and the surgery actually made her pianissimo the best in the business.
With that said, surgery anywhere in a foot of my vocal cords makes me nervous, so I'd be especially careful, and make sure to get more than one professional opinion (i.e. at least two voice teachers AND at least two ENT's).
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#4re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:16pmJulie Andrews had a cyst, as well. Although, hers was on her vocal cords.
#5re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:20pmTouchme, I hear you. I had my tonsils out a few years ago and unfortunately my singing voice was changed permanently as a result (I really think they were damaged by the breathing tube). I used to be a tenor, but my range is totally gone. I'm lucky I can still sing, but my voice is very different now.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#6re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:20pmand we all know how well that turned out, CM2.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 3:26pm
Cysts in the sinus are very different than the cords!
Easier to deal with though no less problematic!
MY GOD - Is there a Caballe FAN on this board!!?????/
If you can get in to D.S. (name withheld) - that's who you should have look at your throat and Sinus - if you contact me through PM I will give you appropraite info - be prepared - he is 300 a look!
Renee Fleming and Domingo's throat Man!
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#8re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:03pm
Are there Caballe detractors on the board??
Clearly, anyone who doesn't like her has never heard her sing "Sognio di Doretta"...cause she tears that tune up.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:04pmAin't nobody knows who she is to have detractors (LOL)! Mine is "D'amour suli e rose" Trovatore - perfection!
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#10re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:07pm
Oddly enough, this Callas-hater LOVES Callas on that aria...early Callas, of course.
That aria is frickin' hot, though.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:09pmoh now we are talking of the QUEEN! My Goddess next to Mo!! The Divina!!
#12re: Vocal Help: Cysts?
Posted: 8/30/05 at 4:53pm
I agree with what everyone said, get other opinions... although it probably damage you or anything, but I don't really know.
I always wonder if having my tonsils and adnoids (sp?) out when I was like 7 or 8 changed my voice at all, probably better I had it done then rather than now. Either way, it really really helped my health, so I don't care and I can sing fine, but do th tonsils and adnoids effect singing? Curious of anyone who's had them taken out or professionals who've had it done.
Oh well, GL and I hope everything turns out ok.
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