I am two years and three months post treatment and have had a succession of clean scopes and scans, but today I got some scary news and I wonder if others have dealt with my issue. For about two months I have had trouble swallowing water and other thin liquids. I choke pretty bad unless I really concentrate and even then I can choke. My voice is also hoarse all the time and I talking leaves me breathless - though I can workout at the gym pretty hard and not be out of breath. I try to cheer at my sons' baseball games and I don't recognize this squeaky voice that is coming out of my big mouth. My primary care physician ordered me to have a barium swallow, which I did three weeks ago. It showed some scarring on my epigIottis, enlarging it, which he thinks accounts for the problem. I asked, "Why now, why not when I first ended treatment?" and he said that it was not unusual to have your voice change years after treatment and he talked about late scarring after radiation. Today, though, I had my three-month scope with my ENT, and he said he could see that my left vocal chord is paralyzed and there is a new lesion there. He has ordered a CT Scan. He says "don't press the panic button yet." And I am trying not to. I did read online that vocal chord paralysis is a side effect of radiation to the head and neck. I am just worried that it is more than this since it has presented itself two years after treatment. Well, this is a long post. I appreciate any insights any of you have. I don't usually think about recurrence. My tumor was HPV+ which I know is a blessing. But it's been a hard day. Thanks for listening. -Michelle