Dear Dr. Thomas,
I'm a professional opera singer. After a day of overuse of the voice, the high register started impairing. After, this effect came down into the lower voice (which had been very healthy before), and then into the speaking voice. After 5 days of vocal rest, I got into an audition, and in the middle of an aria, the voice went away. The e&t doctor diagnosed a vocal hemorrhage. After one month of full vocal rest, the blood absorbed, and I got the ok to use the voice again. There is a vessel that won't disappear (far from the edges) that I have had since I was a child (I'm 31 now). My voice feels functional in the low to middle range, however, from a g (above the staff), the impairment that was happening before the hemorrhage is still happening. It feels like a paralysis (impossibility and voice braking or impairment from that note up) and the dysfunctional sound produced is analog to one of the first examples of the video you posted: Laryngology: Vocal cord paralysis. This is my second week after starting using the voice once that noise happened once, I didn't insist on the higher range with fear of breaking a vassal again. Is that something that can be fixed with gradual smooth vocalizing or is it a permanent problem? I really appreciate your attention and your posts. Thank you and I hope to hear from you.