if my voice is damaged from wrong usage of singing warmups, can i recover??

Answer 1

Wrong use of your vocal instrument, bad habits, some fisical conditions, or abuse of your voice could seriously damage your vocal chords.

The best thing to fix Nudles, Polips, and other voice diseases is with absolute rest.

Vocal Folds (Chords) are muscles, if you over stress them, Over use them, or if you simply use the wrong voice technique to sing and even to talk you can cuase vocal damage to your Vocal Chords

Vocal Chords are really delicate, weak and sensitive.

If you talk and while you are talking your voice breaks or simply gets raspy, if you feel like you have something on your throat and you have the sensation you cannot sallow, if you feel you cannot produce a sound when you try to sing or you cannot sustain a long note, you cannot hit the high notes you can sing easily before...

I would say MAYBE you have a huge INFLAMMATION or MAYBE you have NODULES in your vocal chors. With the adequate treatment and ABSOLUTE VOCAL REST your vocal chords can be restored.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Just a Professional can find what is really going on with your vocal chords, so my advice as a professional Voice Teacher and Singer is: Go to the specialist in voice diseases and check what is going on with your voice.

For Now, until you go to the Doctor do not sing and try to not talk, take a vocal rest daily, At least 2 hours of NO TALKING TIME. Drink lots of water (Not too cold, do not put ice on your water). Drink Warm Tea, Chamomile is a good one. take some honey 2 a day to lubricate your throat. Sleep well and if your bed room is to dry, use a humidifier in the nights to hydrite the bedroom, that way your voice would be better in the morning when you awake.

Forget about to sing even to warm up your voice. DO NOT USE YOUR VOCAL CHORDS!

Go to the Doctor and Follow his/her instructions, maybe he will recommend to not sing for a while, and maybe he /she will recommend speech therapy.

Check my 360's Blog: Healthy Voice, What we can Do. You will find a lot of links with information about voice diseases, treatment, symptoms and how to prevent them.

Hope this can help you.

Good Luck

Answer 2

It is probably not anything permanent, but here's what you can do for the next few days:

Avoid drinking cold water.
Get some good sleep.
Pace your voice usage throughout the day -- let it rest a bit more in the morning by talking softly (or avoiding it if possible).
Drink a lot of fluids. Warm tea with honey helps, but drink teas without caffeine (like chamomile) because caffeinated drinks dehydrate you.
When you feel your voice has recovered, do light warmups. Don't go all the way the first time.

If you sing regularly, you should take the above precautions regularly. Prevention is always the best cure.

If you feel there is more permanent damage, you should see your doctor.

Answer 3

obviously u can, take honey 3 times a day, honey helps healing damaged voice dramatically, and from next time use the correct singing warm up, dont go 4 the warmups that wont suit u, if u warm up with songs that dont suit u, u might loose ur voice 2 ever, and yes if u want some more quick result 2 recover ur voice then mix the honey in a cup of mild hot water and drink it some 4 times a day, i promise that'll heal ur voice in just a day.

Answer 4

If you feel like you were doing warmups wrong...then you have nothing to worry about. You may not have helped or furthered your voice...but you certainly did not damage it. Don't worry...you will be fine. Just keep at it. Work on smoothing it out, working on tonality, using diaphragm, good posture, BREATHING...any more questions, just ask. But don't worry, I don't think you damaged your voice.

Answer 5

I'd say give your voice some rest and then start again slowly with a good teacher and proper warmups!

Answer 6

definitely, but don't eat something that tastes sweet too much and I've heard that natural apple juice with salt is helping to your voice

Answer 7

depends on the severity. but if you got blisters on your vocal cords then no.