The effect of Estrogen on Vocal Cords????

CoachC
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:12:36 +0000

Hi there -

I’m a medical voice specialist/Speech Pathologist who works for a major voice center (as well as a vocal coach), so I went to most scientifically reliable site that I know for checking the effect of medications on the vocal folds:
http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/info/vocol/rx.html

and here’s what I found:

“The use of oral contraceptives has not been shown to significantly affect female voices.” (this info was listed under Triphasil, the name of one type of birth control pill).

I agree with her teacher that it should be fine - in all of the medical voice evals I have been part of (many!:)), we have never asked about birth control pill use or investigated that as a factor in vocal difficulty - and believe me, we are thorough! :)