I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced a loss in singing range or any other voice-related effects as a result of having a trachea shave. I had mine done in February of this year, and while my speaking voice came back, I still haven't been able to access my falsetto voice, and my upper range was truncated by a few notes (I'm straining to make a sound at F#4~G4; before I could max out at C#5~D5 after warming up).
-Did your voice/range come back sooner, or was your experience similar to mine?
-If it came back sooner, did you do exercises or anything to bring your voice back up to par?
I lost some too.. I think it is more common than people realize.
When I had VFS it seemed to bring it back up somewhat, but I still feel like I used to be able to go a bit higher more easily.
It does sound like something that practice can help a lot, but it will be permanently affected from what I've found.
Unfortunately I didn't do a before and after test, but I did notice a difference in the super high range immediately following trach shave. No difference otherwise until I had VFS, then I got about 7 semitones back- but I've also been doing tons of vocal exercises.
Trach shave has been the scariest procedure I've done, I think. I was so worried about it affecting my voice.
I found only a slightly increased difficulty in reaching the very highest notes (F5, G5, A5) - which I could hit reasonably easily before but find harder now, but have been able to get after practice. However, my mixed voice seems to have improved with the surgery, so I can hit G4 up to C5 in an almost chest voice-like mix which I wasn't able to do before, although it may just have been due to me doing more singing at the time (although I wasn't training on using mixed voice at that time).