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Has anyone else experienced this? I’m new to stuttering. I mean, I’ve tripped on words before, but I wasn’t ever regularly having difficulty talking. In the past 2ish months I had started getting stuck on words more often, maybe once a day or every few days. Then 3 weeks ago I started having non-epileptic seizures and had 5 in one week, and at the same time I was having a hard time talking. At first, it was only before and after a seizure, and would slowly go away. Then it took longer and longer for my speech to return. Even though I’m not really having full blown seizures anymore, I still stutter on and off throughout the day. Sometimes it’s so bad I can’t really finish a sentence, or people can’t understand me. I get upset in a way I’m sure a lot of you can empathize with, and sometimes just choose not to talk because it’s too hard. My sister-in-law is a speech pathologist, and said I had Spasmodic Dysphonia, which is when the vocal chords tighten up, causing me to kind skip and gasp on syllables. She couldn’t explain how it keeps going away and coming back though. Honestly none of my doctors have any idea what’s going on with me, including my therapist, though it seems everyone’s decided this is in my head. It might be, but,,, then how do I fix it? Anyway, it does tend to come back when I’m tired, overwhelmed, anxious or stressed, though not as a hard fast rule. It’s not something I can really predict. Does anyone else have experience with this? Talking completely fluently and then a half hour later not being able to choke out a sentence? And then suddenly, 3 hours after that being able to talk again? How do I even deal with this? Should I start seeing a speech therapist? Can they even help me if I only stutter about half the time?