u/No_Band_5659

10 years of dealing with worsening chronic bladder pain that I always swore was an infection. I feel medically gas lit by years of negative uti tests, yet positive for white blood cells (fighting what exactly?), rounds of antibiotics that did nothing, every diet you can think of, and a bunch of IC discourse about pelvic floor dysfunction that made no sense in my case and “some people just have inflamed bladders for no reason.” I’m sorry, I just refuse to believe is the case for most of us. I’m sure it exists tho.

Anyway. YEARS. Of desperately trying to find and heal the root cause of this pain. I come across this sub and it felt so validating. I immediately started an herbal anti-microbial/biofilm protocol of allicin (garlic compound), NAC, and d mannose. Within 3 days, I’m pain free. I’m drinking coffee that’s not going immediately through me. My skin is purging a little right now, but I’d be willing to bet this bladder inflammation has been one of the factors causing my acne, because they started around the same time.

I hate that the medical field prescribes antibiotics for every single thing. I guarantee you that’s why these stubborn bacteria evolved to develop bio films in the first place.

Anyway. Sorry for the barely coherent rambling. It’s 2 am and I’m almost in tears of happiness. Bless you all. I’m on a path to healing I was starting to doubt was possible.

I’m not sure where else to post this lol.

I’ve (31f) been singing my whole life. When I was in high school, I “taught myself” how to use vibrato by imitating singers I really liked. It’s such an innate part of my style at this point that I don’t even think about it anymore. I couldn’t stop if I tried. It’s just a little flutter at the end of phrases.

Fast forward to age 28. after experiencing pain on the left side of my throat when singing too much, I went to an ENT who scoped me and I found out my right vocal cord is paralyzed and completely atrophied due to a lung surgery I had the day I was born. So the pain was from the left side over compensating.

Anyway, then today, the algorithm shows me a video about “natural vibrato” and that’s how I found out that everyone doesn’t force vibrato in their larynx the way I do LOL. I mean, again, it’s natural for me NOW. But it’s muscle memory and not truly “natural”

I probably physiologically can’t use natural vibrato. it made me sad learning that. But I definitely have a unique style because of it and I know there are plenty of other artists who do the same thing. also, my left vocal cord is JACKED! Hahaha

TLDR~ because of a structural abnormality in my right vocal cord, I JUST found out vibrato is natural for most singers and the way I’ve been doing it for 20 years is not normal lol