Vocal Fold Polyp Surgery - Anyone else have it done?

SnowflakeVT
Tue, 29 May 2012 13:41:14 +0000

Hi Mezzo, I have had trouble with my voice for about a year, and before that on an off. When people meet me they think I have a cold or a sore throat, and I’m perfectly healthly. Besides the sound of my voice, the quality has been going down over the last 1.5 years. My problem is that I talk a lot at work and in the charity work I do, both on the phone and in giving presentations and in running meetings. Some days it hurts to talk at the end of a day and I can’t even make sounds correctly, or it actually hurts (like a sharp pain, not just a sore throat). Other days I can’t talk much without the sharp pain or losing my sound altogether. The voice therapy in the last 6-8 months helped a lot to improve the quality of my voice, but I still can’t talk for longer periods of time and I still have that sharp pain, especially after a day of use. Both the doctor and the voice therapy expert suggested that the surgery could help the most in improving my voice quality and eventually my vocal technique, and hopefully I can avoid future vocal cord damage in the future. I will go look up what a Magna Doodle is … seems like I should have one!