Pectus Excavatum Surgery Blog

Thursday, 21 July 2005

Topic: Recovery
I did it! I got the surgery on Tuesday, July 12, and I stayed in the hospital until Saturday. Which, might I say, was not pleasant!
First of all, the Hospital food was absolutely HORRIBLE!!!:( I think that that is the reason why I repeatedly got sick to my stomach, which hurt a lot.
Second of all, I couldn't get a good night's sleep, thanks to the nurses! As a result, I am always really tired. Which, is I guess good if I want to sleep through the pain, and that is always nice.
Still, I am really glad that I got the surgery done, I mean, it is totally worth it- my chest is completely normal now! Yep, no more fun creeping my brother out, no more putting tennis balls and oranges in there, no more putting water in there...oh well.
Lately I have been experiencing really bad itching at my incision are, on my sides.It is getting really, red and it looks really strange. Calamine lotion seems to help a little, but only for about an hour or so.I think I will contact my doc for that...
-trumpet_gurl

Posted by band3/trumpet_gurl at 8:57 AM MDT
Updated: Thursday, 21 July 2005 9:06 AM MDT
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Tuesday, 6 November 2007 - 11:42 AM MST

Name: "breast reduction recovery "
Home Page: http://www.insightempire.com/Breastreductionrecovery/

Nice piece loved the blog, thankyou

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Tuesday, 6 November 2007 - 11:42 AM MST

Name: "breast reduction recovery "
Home Page: http://www.insightempire.com/Breastreductionrecovery/

Nice piece loved the blog, thankyou

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Friday, 1 May 2009 - 6:25 PM MDT

Name: "justin"
Home Page: http://befitblog.com

I'm a fitness trainer and I also suffer from Pectus. I actually just wrote an article on how to exercise with pectus here:

http://befitpersonaltraining.blogspot.com/2009/05/exercising-and-pectus-excavatum-how-to.html

This is obviously for someone whom doesn't have the money for a Nuss/Ravitch or just wants to improve their overall appearance.

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Wednesday, 2 December 2009 - 3:47 AM MST

Name: "Pectus Correctus"
Home Page: http://pectuscorrectus.blogspot.com/

As a kid I was diagnosed with moderate PE. I'm now 35, and intend to correct my Pectus excavatum without surgery. I've already made significant improvement. View photos here: http://pectuscorrectus.blogspot.com/

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Sunday, 20 December 2009 - 1:56 AM MST

Name: "pectus correctus"
Home Page: http://pectuscorrectus.blogspot.com/

I'm working hard to correct my pectus excavatum naturally as much as possible. More of my story and photos here: http://pectuscorrectus.blogspot.com/

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Thursday, 2 February 2012 - 5:25 PM MST

Name: "Ryan"
Home Page: http://nussprocedure.blogspot.com/

Hi there,

I've also gone for pectus repair! Not gonna lie, hurts like a *****. But really glad i did it. We have great doctors here in south africa

Just like to know. Your bar is probably removed by now? Is everything still fine after the removal?

Ryan

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Tuesday, 28 October 2014 - 1:18 PM MDT

Name: "pectus medical"

Hello all, A new less painful, minimally invasive magnetic treatment for Pectus Excavatum is almost available that has almost NO complications compared to the Nuss Procedure. We need your help to commercialize this procedure and train our pediatric surgeons. Follow the indiegogo link below and learn more today on Indiegogo!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-iron-man-treatment-for-chest-wall-deformity

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