{"id":259,"date":"2019-04-25T01:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=259"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:22:15","slug":"losing-my-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Losing My Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost my voice! This has got to be the first time in my life that this has ever happened ?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always had a loud voice. I enjoy speaking at a high volume. It sucks a lot having to speak in a much softer manner than usual. Seriously, I sound like a dying old guy letting out his last breaths. Feels&#8230; emasculated in a way.<\/p>\n<p>I think it began last Saturday (20\/4). We were preparing for this camp event at Bach Khoa University. I got up Sunday feeling particularly tired, with a big lump in my throat. It hurt whenever I swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>(I also had barely 4 hours of sleep the previous day, so I was seriously considering bailing from the event. Finally decided to suck\u00a0it up and went).<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day my voice started off sounding weaker than normal, and then it began to just fade. I had to ask Phong to do most of the talking.<\/p>\n<p>Funny enough Phong also had a mild cold on Sunday. He kept sneezing and also had a semi-sore throat. His voice wasn&#8217;t affected as much as mine though.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, my throat still massively hurt. I considered using a voice amplifier to teach, but seeing how cumbersome it is I decided to just talk normally, just at a lower volume.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards I did some Googling and apparently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most common cause of losing your voice is an upper respiratory tract infection that affects the larynx.<\/li>\n<li>People whose job demand lots of talking at high volumes, e.g teachers, auctioneers, singers, are vulnerable to losing their voice. The mechanism of &#8220;losing your voice&#8221; is a lot like delayed muscle soreness: as you overuse your larynx, it becomes inflamed and takes several days to recover.<\/li>\n<li>The reason why a lot of people have sort of a hoarse voice is that as they overuse their larynx, overtime a layer of callus builds up. This is really interesting.<\/li>\n<li>So overall there&#8217;s nothing to worry about if you lose your voice once in a while. However they also say it\u00a0<em>might <\/em>be caused by a growing tumour which is a cause for cancer. So if your voice remains weak for more than several weeks, you should go see a doctor immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday was the worst! I became a meek little kid during the class. Had to speak like I had perpetual depression and lethargy, even though my body felt perfectly fine. The word here is &#8220;emasculation&#8221; :&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday (today), my throat does not hurt so much when I swallow. I can speak at 85% my regular voice now. Coughed quite a bit throughout the day though.<\/p>\n<p>Hope that in the next 1-2 days I&#8217;ll be 100% back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I have a group of four students who travel from Hai Duong all the way here to study 3 evenings a week. Somehow 3 of them also have a sore throat! Wondering if this is related at all, if I infected them or they infected me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 4\/5<\/strong>: Alright it&#8217;s been close to 2 weeks and somehow I&#8217;m still coughing violently and my throat is still kind of sore. I can speak mostly normally now, but it still hurt a tiny bit when I swallow. This is a longass cold. A lot of people around me are having signs of a cold too. I think there&#8217;s a cold outbreak happening now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost my voice! This has got to be the first time in my life that this has ever happened ? 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