Your cold symptoms cleared up days ago—so why does your voice still feel off? Cold symptoms resolve in 3-7 days. Vocal fold tissue takes 3-4 weeks to fully heal. That 1-3 week gap where you feel fine but your voice isn't ready is where singers cause preventable damage. This episode covers what's actually happening in your vocal folds during a respiratory infection—the swelling, the fragile blood vessels, the disrupted mucosal wave. We break down the three injury patterns from returning too so...