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Voice disorders
Voice disorders include anatomic, infectious, inflammatory, and obstructive problems that interfere with the functioning of the vocal cords.
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 22-year old asked:
Who gets voice disorders?
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A 21-year old asked:
What causes voice disorders?
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A 21-year old asked:
How is a voice disorder diagnosed?
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A 37-year old asked:
How do you diagnoses a voice disorder?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Hi. I have a voice disorder. My voice is too girlish and very small such that i cant shout nor my voice is heard in public. Please help me?
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A 21-year old asked:
What are the possible side effects of treatments for voice disorders?
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A 22-year old female asked:
What is the pathophysiology of voice disorders and nasopharyngeal disorders?
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A 45-year old female asked:
I'm forty-five/female i don't have a voice disorder but i lose my voice to severe fear and anxiety; what do I do when i've tried everything?
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A 36-year old asked:
What to do if i may have some type of voice or puberty disorder?
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A 37-year old asked:
What is a disorder that makes a person hear voices in their head?
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A 37-year old asked:
What disorder causes babylike high pitched voice in adult woman?
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A 26-year old female asked:
How can voices answer ones every thought when you have Schizoaffective disorder and depression?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Hello i'm angelic i'm 17 and i've been diagnosed with a personality disorder. I hear voices in my head and they get so bad.They put me down.Watcanido?
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A 17-year old male asked:
Is it a condition or some sort of disease when people mature but their voices stay the same as they were when they were little? Anything u can do?
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A 49-year old female asked:
Borderline personality disorder why do I hear voices when i disasociate
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A 45-year old asked:
What other disorder is there when you hear voices in your head (not schizophrenia)?
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A 35-year old asked:
Do I have to hear a voice in my head to have an eating disorder?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Is hearing voices a sure sign of schizophrenia or some kind of psychotic disorder?
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A female asked about a 16-year old female:
Hearing voices, not sure if I'm putting them there myself, have depression and anxiety. and post dramatic stress disorder. ?
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A 26-year old female asked:
When you have Schizoaffective disorder and depression how does responding constantly to voice, feeling,hallucinations and thoughts affect your mind?
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A 61-year old female asked:
I am concerned that my granddaughter may be exaggerating or faking a tic disorder and may need counseling instead. She acts as though they are funny or cute and the vocals are more often than not with a 'cutesy' voice and facial expression?
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A 26-year old female asked:
When you have Schizoaffective disorder and depression can the voices you hear sound like real people talk?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Could I have an anxiety disorder and unnoticed stress that manifests itself with voices and hallucinations rather than the diagnoses of bipolar?
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A 33-year old female asked:
I've b=n diagnosed with Adult onset Stills disease. Voice is hoarse and shoulders hurt, can barely lift arms. What can be done to help with pain?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Feel heart trembling all time shakin voice heavy head pain in back cold body sweat concentrate prob and I worry alot I had inflamatry bowel disease?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Dx bipolar disorder but now all of a sudden am hearing voices. Meds my dr has me on are new, too. Klonopin, depakote, and luvox (fluvoxamine). Why happening?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Can a hoarse voice and swollen glands mean that I have a thyroid disorder? I've had this all of my life.
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A 52-year old female asked about a 16-year old male:
Im 16 years old my singing voice had become stable but its now unstable again is it puberty what do I do ?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Dont know how to find out what this is because theres nothing online. There are parts of my voice that rapidly change between two notes when singing?
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A 37-year old female asked:
My son is 9 years old and has crispy voice for over a month.Doctors say it"s laringytis.He has no other siptoms .What is the cose?
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