Yes, I can confirm some of what was said about the healing process. Dr Kim explained to me as well that the first week is the external healing and the internal healing takes those 8 weeks for the min healing and then some more months for everything to heal completely and the scar tissue to form. He also said that a low and fully vibrating note is more damaging than other notes. So when I said "Ja" once in the first week, I probably did more damage than with the other two words. Coughing is really the worst though, I have never asked him about sneezing - it cannot be good either...
The way I understood it though, the internal healing is more about voice health and clarity while the healing of the suture itself should be what makes the pitch change. Apparently there is also some scar contraction happening later in the healing process - weeks to months - that also puts some tension on the vocal folds again, increasing pitch a bit more, which is why for some the pitch increase seems to come later. Thats how I understood his explanation about the late pitch gain in some.
I like the Synatura as well. It helped a lot and I got a whole package of it to take with me for the weeks after and I used half of it. I also took some very strong prescription cough suppressant with me to replace the ones that end after a week. So I continued medicating myself against coughing for some while after the first week. I also took some of that cough suppressant during the nights in Korea in addition to the ones I got from him, just to make double sure I don't cough in the nights, after I heard that apparently subconscious me coughs a lot, I was afraid to cough again while I was half out, just like in the wakeup room.
Its up to the next Yeson patients to just take the information already posted here as a given, not ask for that again, but ask new questions
- Like how much coughing does affect the internal healing or what is the effect of bad internal healing. Or why age matters so much. Or what to do about sneezing?