I was injected with vocal cord Botox, if you will.' 'But this is not Botox for the bags under my eyes or the lines on my head. 'I never thought in my lifetime I would take Botox,' he said. 'It got to the point where it would take me 20 minutes or so to read a track.'Ī post shared by Jericka Duncan began working with health experts to find a remedy, and recently tried Botox as a form of treatment. About five years ago, I noticed my voice was getting weaker,' he said. 'I believe it started for me because I was feeling tremendous anxiety.
Working with specialists at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Pegues says he was told there was no cure for the disorder, and that it's related to something in the brain. 'In my case, and in the case of others who have spasmodic dysphonia, the vocal cords don't come together.' 'What happens is, when you talk your vocal cords push together creating the sound,' Pegues said.
