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Michael B.
Roseanne B.
George Beahan
Jerome Berkovitch
Alison Blasko
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Ginger Chang
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John Fonville
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Ed Gold
Rabbi Allen Green
Mike Green
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Gerald Harsen
Luana Hess, M.D.
D. Holoman
Jeff J.
Jerome
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George Keiter
Wendy Knecht
Karla Kniss
Randy Knipple
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Leo
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Deborah L
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ML
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Michael
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Gayle Pace
Muriel Paule
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John Pollock
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Norma Young
Roberta Zuckerman

July 2007
Michael-Cured of SD by DVR

II began losing my voice a few years ago during a very stressful time in my life. I went to an allergist who told me that I probably had some sort of dystonia. He set up an appointment with a major medical university in the Southeast that diagnosed me with SD. They said there was no cure but there were a couple of options for treatment, which were surgery or botox injections. I chose botox first for obvious reasons. The university told me that the botox treatment, at worst felt like a bee sting. It was actually the most excruciating pain I have ever felt. After the first injection I completely lost my voice and couldn't talk above a whisper for 3 weeks to a month. About a month after the injection, my voice actually started coming back for a period of about a week. Over the next month or so my voice continually became more spasmodic again. I repeated this cycle with botox three more times until I found Dr. Cooper in Los Angeles.  Dr. Cooper introduced me to Direct Voice Rehabilitation (DVR).  I have since been cured of spasmodic dysphonia and I'm no longer having eye spasms, neck spasms or tension in my throat. As a matter of fact, my voice sounds better today than it ever has.

 –Michael