< | | From:  didigirl1@j...
didigirl1@j...
Date: Thu Nov 29, 2001 9:40 pm
Subject: Re: Female voice changes and surgery
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Hi - I think I've seen this subject covered in this group but I have
several questions and I am hoping that you are the ones that can help me.
I am planning on having surgery - hysterectomy - within a few months. I
have been putting it off - especially because I have heard through
different sources that it could and will affect my voice but now I do not
have the option to say "no". I asked my voice teacher today about that
and she said she really doesn't know how to answer the question. She
suggested that I talk to the doctor and said that it depends on if I will
be taking hormones after surgery. I will be having a partial
hysterectomy (uterus only) but I've read that the body will go into
menopause shortly thereafter anyway. She's taught women who have gone
through menopause - but it has been gradual and over the course of years.
She often comments that I have a wide range and that I can "toss off
those high notes without a problem". But she also suggested that instead
of asking the gyn how the surgery will affect my voice - that I ask
another type of medical expert who specializes with singers. Does anyone
know of anyone in the NYC metro or Long Island area that could guide me?
Perhaps someone who could help me with any changes that I experience that
would be more knowledgeable because they deal with these types of things?
Am I overreacting and should I not be so concerned with these possible
vocal changes? How greatly can my voice be affected? I am not sure how
to classify how high I sing - the way you all do. I have sung up to an F
at times when I am warming up. The only way I know how to describe the F
is this. There's middle C, then going higher on the piano is the next C
(is that a "high C"?), then the next middle C and then the F above that -
I have sung up to that. But most of the time I sing up to an E flat
right below that F that I just described. I can sing as low as an Aflat
- middle C and go down to the next C and then the A flat below that C.
The teacher says I sing it very smoothly without any trouble with
transitioning and always seems very pleased at my range telling me that
it is a gift. I've been taking lessons for 5 years. I am 42 years old.
If anyone can give me firsthand experience with this or knows of an
expert that could help me - please let me know. You can e-mail me
personally or perhaps help someone else out there who may have had the
same question but didn't want to broach the subject on this group. I'm
too concerned to let it pass without finding out what I can before
surgery time. Thanks for any responses.
Didi
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