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I am surprised that how did you take picture of your vocal cord with iphone, because it is possible with endoscope only ??

Any way you voice box (larynx including vocal cords) looks perfectly normal. You do not have vocal cord paralysis.

You need to put efforts to speak louder. Do you have any voice change, due you have any hoarseness of voice.

You need to be examined by local ENT doctor, who can examine you and do you voice analysis if required and advise you medication if required and guide about speech therapy if required

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you have any further queries.

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Dr. Sunil Jalan

MBBS, DLO,MS(ENT), DNB,DAA

Hello.
I could see a phonatory gap in the picture. However, in a still picture I cannot comment about vocal cord mobility. That is why I suggested that you need to be examined by a local ENT surgeon. You would require an indirect laryngoscopic examination to test for vocal cord mobility. Only this can tell us if there is any vocal cord weakness/paralysis. Always, a diagnosis is made considering age/sex/occupation/socioeconomic status/ symptoms/ examination and then we confirm it with tests.
In a young female other causes of voice change will be more common rather than vocal cord paralysis or paresis(weakness). Viral infection can cause vocal cord paralysis or paresis but still we have to confirm it. I cannot give a definitive diagnosis based on one still picture. This is because we have to take a picture of full abduction and one with full adduction of the vocal cords. I agreed that right vocal cord is less bulky than left, but this can be a normal anatomical variation. Many people with this have a normal voice.
With vocal cord paresis or paralysis voice become hoarse and breathy. That is the reason I asked about the same. If your voice is not hoarse or breathy during course of your condition, then it is very unlikely that you have paresis or paralysis.
Rather than an assumption, the best medical management can be given after a confirmed diagnosis.
I am sorry that I put in less information in my last reply but sometimes when I feel that the patient needs a definite examination by local doctor, then extra information may confuse the patient and may cause unnecessary anxiety.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you have any further queries.
Thank you.