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Please hang on. I’m a 78f, stutterer since childhood. As I consider your situation I’m prompted to give you hope. Hope that fluency isn’t static. You’ll find yourself going through all kinds of phases, some of greater fluency. I have to relate that I haven’t even taken the available opportunities for speech therapy in my own life and I’ve lived 4X your years. I’m currently on a waiting list for evaluation at our Speech-Language department of our local medical school even at my age. I don’t know if you’ve had access to speech therapy but your comment about your families support suggests they would have sought all venues. I want to provide additional support. There is recent investigation into the medication-mediated treatment of stuttering as an adjunct to other therapies. I’ll include the link to an amazing physician, himself a stutterer, who is investigating medication. Regardless, medication there is hope through other modalities. Please retain your hope. Even psychotherapy helps with the depression of hopelessness. There IS hope. Darn, my access to that link isn’t working but YouTube: Uri Schneider Gerald Maguire. You will access hope.