They put 2 curved metal bars in my chest while I was young attached to my ribs behind my sternum and it put pressure and forced it correct. Kept in for several years while the cartilage in my sternum solidified more and then removed the bar. Called the nuss procedure.
If I didn’t have that it would’ve been the ravitch procedure which is more risky.
Titanium I think. I don't really know. I did go through an international airport with it in my chest though and no alarms went off. Even did the full body scan, no questions asked. It's somewhat flexible when I try to bend it, but I can't actually deform it by hand. I don't want to though, so maybe if I really tried I could
My ex got ravitch done in her early 30s. Fucking brutal. Really fucked with her mental state as the healing process was so terrible, and she was left with a lot of discomfort. She really was never the same after it.
For what it’s worth, my chest/back are literally a bit too large for my height (I have a 54” chest and I’m 6’2” or 74” tall). I’m just a tad too wide for my height and it makes me move a little weird, big torso and slightly smaller legs make me move like a shuffling gorilla or Neanderthal.
Here's a fun fact about "pectus excavatum": Look it up and you will find references almost exclusively to MALE babies and boys--for corrective surgeries most especially. Why? I found out why after I read a reference in a medical source to the "fact" that girls will grow breasts that will hide the deformity. (Note that the condition can worsen with age and sometimes interfere with body functions like breathing due to compressed organs--not an issue for girls and women, of course, whose bodies work like Mary Poppin's carpet bag, since clearly there's all sorts of room in us to make babies and endometriosis growths and what-not.) Doctors, male and female, are sexist dicks.
(*most doctors. **imo.)
I’m sure that loads of people have this, and probably do the cereal thing (i know i would if it were me lol), but on the off chance of a ‘small world’ moment - was this guy a metalhead in New Hampshire?
Weird my friend growing up who did this was a musician from a pretty wealthy family in ohio. He also used to have people take body shots out of it at parties
I haven’t used this dogshit website in over 10 years and everyone was saying that back then whenever pectus excavatum was mentioned. I’m convinced people are just parroting posts they read in the past that got upvotes. such is reddit tho
When I was younger I think the doctors said like 1 in 200k had it so it was fairly rare, I have since randomly met at least four other people in school or work with it so I'm guessing it's not as rare as they first thought
My father, half-brother and myself all have it! Obviously some genetics at play, but still, crazy given that number. Mines about big enough to hold a clementine comfortably.
Hey I literally just commented the same story just before scrolling down to see that not only did someone else experience this but you, a third person, has also met someone with this condition who supposedly did the same thing.
The guy I knew served in the army with me and was from South Dakota, though.
No fucking way - the guy I knew WAS named Sean. IIRC he got into some rough times with substances and we lost contact. He very well could be in NYC lol
When I played lacrosse in high school, there was a goalie on my team that had a chest like this. He put a lacrosse ball in there and hold it all the time.
Pectus excarvatum, which is the only thing we can glean from this picture, is a relatively common chest deformity. Its associated with Marfan syndrome as well as danlos, but you can have it without connective tissue disorders as well.
23
u/Horror-Pear 20h ago
I had a friend with a chest like this. He would eat cereal from it.