Hi, just wondering if anyone else suffers loss of voice with infection, I have severe emphysema and have experienced this twice now, just happens over night,I always rinse mouth after using inhalers, hope everyone is as well as they can be, enjoy this lovely weather if you can.
Jude x
It's more than likely you vocal chords which become slightly inflamed due to the infection or extra medication that you take during the times when your condition flares.
This loss of voice or hoarseness (or the Bonny Tyler/Rod Stewart effect haha) will come and go, but if it's there all the time, then certainly have a word with your GP and get it checked out. It's something most of us with COPD experience quite a lot.
Keep smiling through it.
Bajer
Hi Brooksju,
I have asthma, copd and waiting to see if I have bronchiectasis. For around 18 months now, my voice goes all hoarse and croaky after I have spoken for about 10 minutes. If I have an infection (like now), then my voice just goes away all the time. I have had all sorts of tests by ENT specialists and it has been put down to a combination of medication, violent coughing and infection. I have become use to it now, and sometimes people will say, "Oh she has her sexy voice on today." Cheeky monkeys. However, everybody is different and if this is something new for you, then it would probably be best to get it checked out. I'm sure that it is probably the infection, and straining your voice, because when we cannot breathe properly it is more of an effort to speak. See your doctor anyway, just to be on the safe side. Good luck, and glad you are having good weather, because I am not. Keep well, and avoid people with infections as much as you can. Good luck. hugs from Huggs xx
Hi Brooksju I also have a gruff voice and it disappears frequently when holding a conversation. Remember as well as rinsing you mouth out to also have a bit of a gargle after using inhalers.
polly xx
I am 100% faithful about my rinsing and gargling and I'm having terrible problems with my throat. Thick mucus that I can't get up and then it gets me to coughing, and also just a feeling sometimes like something gets caught when I'm eating. It's not like there's a lump or anything; more like little hairs that are catching food and stopping it. I take Spiriva handi haler and Flovent. My problem started only after I started taking the Flovent. I take it twice a day and each time I first rinse, then gargle with water, and then rinse and gargle with an anti-bacterial, alcohol-free mouthwash (Therabreath and Prevention).
Hi brooksju
I have never lost my voice with an infection but I have gone rather horse, very gravelly!
Take care
Ken
My voice disappears a lot it can be my inhalers the weather my wife 
but it does come back.
Be Well
I was told to brush my teeth and gargle with a mouthwash after using my Symbicort inhaler; in spite of that, what used to be a bassier, baritone voice is now one of those raspier 'old fart' voices that sounds like it's coming from only my throat and not my chest or diaphragm. It's been going on since my breathing became more labored a couple of years before I started with my Symbicort after I was diagnosed with COPD. Bummer.
Are you on an aerosol steroid puffer? If so it seems to irritate the vocal chords. When I switched to powdered Flovent it pretty much cleared up.
HI get up every day with a very squeeky hoarse voice cant even answer the phone as not much comes out .breathing always lot worse in morning to (no idea why) on symbicort, spiriva.oxygen .always feel at my worst in the morning.
I've had this with inhalors ,steroid gets stuck on the tonsils ,hard to remove without choking,usually it was the thick powder inhalors ,where it goes everywhere but the lungs.
Complete loss of breath while coughing
Hoarsy voice
Loss of taste/smell
Copd and loss of appetite 
Weight loss 
