Shania Twain's Lyme disease diagnosis affected her career. The country music star opened up about her symptoms in the Netflix documentary 'Not Just a Girl.'
developed dysphonia. The neurological disorder affects speech and voice, according to Penn Medicine.
"My voice was never the same again," Twain recalled."I thought I’d lost my voice forever. I thought that was it, [and] I would never, ever sing again."Twain thought she had lost her voice forever following her Lyme disease diagnosis. "You start avoiding speaking on the phone, you start avoiding going to places that have ambient noise where you have to speak over the volume of others. It's very debilitating," she told People magazine.
"Until I got to the bottom of why I was having a problem with my voice, there wasn't really much I could do about it," she continued."So it took a long time. I did believe that I would probably have to accept at some point that I was never going to sing again." To regain her voice, Twain underwent multiple invasive surgeries – including an open-throat operation.
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