It’s Friday, so it’s vlog day and my failing voice is causing me problems! It’s now over two weeks since I travelled to the NHNN in London and had a thorough shakedown of my DBS settings. The improvements that were made on that day have slowly faded as my brain has become accustomed to the changes in stimulation and the new settings have “soaked in”. Today I find it much more of an effort to speak, and my voice is higher pitched and I sound as though I’ve had a few drinks. I’m using all of the strategies recommended by the speech therapist yesterday, but even so I think my voice sounds absolutely rubbish. I’ll send an email to the DBS speech therapist next week and see what he suggests (he asked me to let him know how I got on with the new settings). I have a feeling that I’ll be travelling back down to London in the near future.