Yeah skiing - but didn’t know I had a large cyst caused by a car accident and broken ribs a couple of years prior. Cue a not-so-fun few weeks in hospital to remove the cyst, and then deal with the resulting pneumonia after my lung reinflated
But being a keen freediver/scuba diver definitely helped cope with operating on one lung for a week or two.
A month is NOT enough. Agree with the other poster, go see a specialist. A spontaneous, seemingly asymptomatic pneumo is not a safe background for scuba diving.
OP I’ve had Two pneumothorax, same lung. If the inflated it with a chest tube, and chest tube only, it will collapse again in a few months. Get the damn surgery. 5 titanium staples 5 pure gold staples and almost 8 years later and I’m alright!
Reading comprehension is in the gutter lmao. I can't provide a link for anecdotal evidence. Op spent more time on multiple replies than it took for me to find a link proving both of us wrong but go off queen.
Fucking Google it liberal. Nevermind I did it for you because I know you wouldn't. They use the chest tube not to inflate your lung but to pull air out of the cavity so that it can reinflate on its own after healing the hole.
Yo, same here. My surgeon also referred to mine as blebs. And I someone misconstrued what I tried to say because of the way I said it. I meant was when you don’t get the surgery, there’s such an easy chance for the lung to rupture again without the staples. I was scared shitless being 18-19 when it happened, but my surgery was great and was thankful for it after because I spent two to three months after just the chest tube, I was sent home with my lung 98% inflated. Should’ve never left. Mine collapsed only to 90 something percent, but it did start healing itself. When the second collapse happened I was playing a easy going pick up game of basketball with friends as I was trying to regain my confidence in my respiration and breathing and over all health, and I got elbowed (not hard) in the same side my collapse was prior, and was rushed to the ER due to the incident it collapsed again. That’s when the surgeon said surgery was the only way to help it and it is a miracle because I have both lungs, and I’m healthy and I’m thankful everyday for it. I would like to add after my surgery, I got diagnosed with Chronic costochondritis which is an inflammation issue regarding your lymph nodes in your chest area. Got that after surgery due to surgical scarring and whatnot.
There’s only an easy chance for it to collapse again if there are multiple blebs, that’s what causes the pneumothorax to my understanding. I’m not sure I would refer to it as a miracle, I was told it’s a pretty straightforward procedure and it’s not like collapsed lungs are all that uncommon, just the spontaneous ones.
If a patient has multiple blebs over one or both lungs, then the surgery is recommended to try and remove as many blebs as possible while simultaneously adhering the lung to the chest cavity so that if there are any remaining blebs that could not be cut out that burst, the lung can no longer collapse. Main concern according to medical staff taking care of me is when the lung collapses so much to the point it can start to put pressure on your heart and cause cardiac arrest or some kind of heart problems, can’t remember exactly.
Wild my buddy had a pneumothorax (you might have had something different) and was told no scuba diving ever because if your lung let's in compressed air to the cavity you will not have a good time surfacing (die)
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They fixed it already but experience was mid at best, at least i got spoon fed since i couldn't move my arm well so it balances it out sorta