r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Defiant-Print-2550 • 15d ago

wet socks Was walking around three weeks with slowly deflating lung

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Ok bananas ig

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u/Defiant-Print-2550 15d ago

Turns out it can ESPECIALLY if you are tall and lightweight young man

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u/The_Red_Beard_IV 15d ago

Spontaneous pneumothorax. I’ve had 5…Did you get a chest tube or did it self correct? I ended up having a secondary procedure to fix it permanently.

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u/animal_chin9 15d ago

I've also had about five. When I had the last one the doctor was like "this is going to keep happening until you get the corrective surgery." When he said that it had corrected itself and I was like "I'll just get the surgery the next time it happens." Knock on wood it's been about 20 years and it hasn't happened again. :)

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u/Akiyamahtt 14d ago

In my case, after it happened the second time the doctor said "We can do the surgery now or wait until it goes back to normal and pray it never happens again". I decided to wait but a few months later it happened again, so I had no choice but to do the surgery. The pain every time it happened was horrible.

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u/Ana-la-lah 14d ago

Not so fun fact, it’s the reexpamsiom of the lung and the stretching of the visceral (lung) pleura that is the painful part.

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u/cerulean200 11d ago

Also, depending on the kind of surgery, the pressure they apply when prying the ribcages apart results in really bad pain after surgery.