Day 164

*NEWS* Several things to tell you this week. After last weekend when my partner was ill, then I was suffering from stomach pains, sleep quality was really poor and I was also starting to have mood swings again and then I realised something:-

With everything that was going on in my life I had forgotten to do my singing exercises. Something else that really should have triggered the realisation was that I began to gently snore whilst using my CPAP machine. This is pretty much unheard of, so my first reaction was to turn the machine up a little.

After a few nights of better sleep I started up iTunes to play the singing exercises and realise that it was 6 days since I last did them! It was at that point that I also realised that I could actually feel my throat closing up. I had been feeling it for a few days but just didn't realise it.

It was like I had something stuck in the back of my throat and it was making it hard to swallow. Further evidence of this was found when I notice I had to raise my head a little to allow me to swallow at all.

All these things amazed me, it was so clearly due to me missing several days of singing. Since then I've been doing the exercises every day and can already see and feel a significant difference. The good thing about toning muscle wherever it is on the body, once you've toned it, it doesn't take long to get it back into shape after a short rest period.

I know that a university is doing clinical trails at the moment and they are due to be completed this year. But I would love to know what happens to the test subjects that have been doing the exercises, when they stop doing them for 1-2 weeks. I'm sure that they will soon notice a dramatic difference. When you are doing the exercises the change is quite slow so sometimes it's hard to tell, which is why I started this blog in the first place as now I can clearly see an improvement. But I'd love to hear what happens to others that have an extended period of not signing after they have been for several months.

For me, it really did prove, the signing has made a significant difference.

I'll remain on the raised pressure for a few more days before reducing it again.

Pain/tiredness/level
1/3/10