Hazards magazine reports that if your voice has been overworked you could receive any of the following diagnoses:
- aphonia – inability to speak;
- dysphonia – voice loss, hoarseness;
- odynophonia – pain and soreness in the throat after prolonged vocal use;
- hyperaemia of the free edges of the vocal cords – common in singers and speakers, and can become chronic;
- vasomotor chorditis – chronic congestion, usually limited to one vocal cord, that is aggravated by vocal effort, but is partly reversible;
- nodules and polyps of the vocal cords;
- laryngeal contact ulcers;
- hyperplasia of the vestibular folds; and
- pseudomyxomatous laryngitis.
