Early days of SD

When I was in my 30's and well before I was aware of SD, I was singing in church, as part of the congregation and while I was holding a note, the sound just cut out as if a switch had been flicked, then it resumed exactly as before. This was really weird and had me bemused, again I don't know if it had anything to do with the oncoming SD. It wasn't for another ten years or so that I noticed my voice was changing. I would be talking to friends and my voice would get lower and it became increasingly difficult to speak. I went to a General Practioner (doctor) at this stage and he told me to stop talking for a while and give my voice a rest, he said it was voice strain. Needless to say I wasn't convinced by his diagnosis and this was just a little incident that contributed to my loss of faith in the medical profession. When many years later I was diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia I looked at a variety of alternative therapies hoping to heal myself.