am currently on holiday, sunny beach holiday with 6 others (1 is DH). We arrived on Tuesday and are due to fly home on Saturday. Last weekend I had a throat infection and went to the doctor on Monday who said I should be fine as I was fighting it off etc. Tuesday was a really long day traveling and then everyone was really excited because it was the first night and wanted to have a big night out. I only had two drinks but didn't want to be a spoilsport and felt pretty much completely fine so stayed out quite late. The following morning (yesterday) I woke up with a croak of a voice and throughout the day it diminished until last night/ now I can't make a single sound.
It is so frustrating. I want to have fun and joke around with the group and I can't make a sound let alone enjoy a conversation. So much so they have all gone off to the beach and I've stayed at the hotel by myself because it's so awful being around everyone having fun and I don't feel like I can join in. I've cried over it a lot because this is the only holiday I'll have this year and feel like I can't enjoy myself.
Has anyone else lost their voice and how long did it last?
AIBU not to go along to the group activities? I honestly can't join in much at all except for a dumb smile and nod every now and again.
AIBU?
To feel this upset about losing my voice?
LondonLady29 · 02/07/2015 14:24
You're making it way worse for yourself by not joining in!
Have a cup of tea and a grip, and go and enjoy your holiday. 
Poor you, it's horrible being ill on holiday, and not being able to join in with a laugh and a joke with friends is hard 
. Try and rest up today and maybe aim for a good night out tomorrow?
OP it's really frightening when you lose your voice for the first time - I'd had a couple of instances (when I'd had throat infections) when I'd lost my voice for 2-3 days - and then in February last year I had a bad allergic reaction to lilies and my voice disappeared for 6 WEEKS...! It was awful - I was on my own at the time, and realised that if anything happened to me, I couldn't even dial 999 for help - which really frightened me 
I eventually had an endoscopy and then speech therapy, and my voice very slowly returned over about 3 months (as a pp said, I sounded like Minnie Mouse for a long while). My voice still isn't 100%, and I don't think that it will ever be what it was - but at least I sound like me again, can speak and can sing to my DGC (even if it's croakier than before).
You'll be okay - one tip from my wonderful speech therapist is not to strain your vocal chords, as they tense up and go into spasm, but to try to hum to yourself gently (you sound crazy, but it does keep your vocal chords moving and supple 
) All the very best 
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