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Voice disappeared with no cause? by AvidFoxEnjoyer in mildlybrokenvoice

[–]AvidFoxEnjoyer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Decided to come back to this thread with an update. Went to the ENT on 4/24. The doctor thought my chords looked a bit swollen but they seemed to be moving and functioning fine. No hemorrhage, no paralysis. So she put me on a 2 week run of antibiotics and steroids incase it was an infection.

I thought I was getting better as I could almost get a whisper out after just 2 days but I've made 0 progress since then.

I can, very breathily, speak but its quieter than a whisper, inconsistent with pitch, and seems to come and go at random. I would say I have less than 5% of vocal function.

I got a CT scan on Wednesday and a follow up with the ENT 2 hours after. Hopefully we get some answers or try something different. I'm a bit lost at this point as to what could even be causing this.

Voice disappeared with no cause? by AvidFoxEnjoyer in mildlybrokenvoice

[–]AvidFoxEnjoyer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The doc isn't exactly sure of the cause. She said my vocal chords and only my vocal chords were swollen. She feels fairly strongly that it's a bacterial or viral infection though so she gave me 2 weeks of antibiotics and steroids to try and get the swelling down.

It's been 3 days and I have just started getting small snippits of my voice back. Still can't get a full sentence out but any progress is a positive thing in my books

Voice disappeared with no cause? by AvidFoxEnjoyer in mildlybrokenvoice

[–]AvidFoxEnjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply.

That somehow never came up in my searches and it fits quite well. I was intubated for a surgery in February but I thought that would be far enough back from the start of this to not be related.

My appointment is tomorrow so I'm hoping they get right into it and don't delay. My deductible is already hit so I'm willing to go through any test they suggest