I lost my voice and I sing on Sunday... Any ideas. how to get it back?

Question:

I woke up yesterday to no voice. I dont feel that sick. no fever. I am coughing up stuff and not to be gross but its an ugly green.. I have no insurance so I have to attack this any way I can . I sing and it is soo attacking my vocal cords.. Its kind of scaring me. I have tried hot salsa, coke( as in the red bottle), cough drops and am loading up on Vitalmin C.. Yet I feel I am missing something.. Any and all Ideas are needed. Oh I am not talking knowing it will hurt my cords more. Which by the way is not easy to do:) I miss my voice please anyone any where give me ideas to get over this. Oh I am also sitting in a steamy shower and that is helping some. Thank YOU all soo much in advance for your input.

Answers:
Drink lots of water and rest your voice!

Drink pure lemon or lime juice mixed with honey. Sip it all day. You can also keep a clove of garlic in your mouth and bite on it every few minutes.

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You might have a proplem. Dont try to speak until then. Have a backup singer just incase as it might not come back quickly. Also drink pleanty of water and dont do anything which will make the vocol cords work. The best thing to do over all would be, when you cough up the "ugly green stuff" spit it down the sink or something. It is most proplerly (hate to say it) snot as when you have a bloke nose you sniff. Then it clears but the snot is stored in your thort for some reson. This can be fixed by relaxing the thort.

Rest your voice! That means absolutely no talking. Everytime I get pharyngitis, my doctor tells me no talking. Also you could try hot tea. Probably what you are coughing up is either coming from your lungs (congestion) or from your sinuses. I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that what you are coughing up has nothing to do with your vocal cords. Just rest your voice, and you should be fine by Sunday.

First of all, green mucous usually indicates an infection, so I would go to the medi center right quick. Second, I'm a singer too, and it seems like I loose my voice once a year. What I do is, obviously, use my voice as little as possible, and I drink A LOT of my own lemon/honey tea. You heat water (the microwave is fine) and add a little lemon juice. You want it a little strong, because that will cut through the gunk. Add a little honey to sweeten, and there you have it. The heat and lemon clear your throat, and the heat and honey soothe it.

gergle salt water. eat chicken noodle soup. drink hot tea. and pray

It sounds like you have an infection probably in your bronchi called brochitis. It has been going around lately. Rinse your mouth with warm salt water a few times a day. Drink lots and lots of water. I mean like a gallan a day at least. The more water you drink the better off you are going to be. Rest your cords by not talking and you can drink hot tea with lemon. The lemon being an acid will help to kill the infection and you can put honey in the tea to help to relive you thoat. If you can stand it. you can drink a little vingar. It works like the lemon in killing the infection but don't drink much and try not to cough because that can make your voice not work again. Good luck. You just need to kill the bacteria causing the infection and break up the mucus.

Rest your voice..even whispering will drain it more. Hot lemon tea..without honey..honey will soothe a sore throat but will actually make your chords dehydrated as it has sugar. Suggest going to your doc to get a temporary inhaler. Worked for me.

try drinking tea with honey in it. Lots of tea!

I lost my voice and I sing on Sunday... Any ideas. how to get it back?

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