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  • Spontaneous pneumothoraxes suck balls. I've had two of them, followed by an operation a year ago to remove a section off the top of my lung, as well as 'sticking' my lung to my chest wall to supposedly prevent this from happening again.

    My lung capacity isn't great, and I still get pain, but my fitness is slowly improving. I hope.

    Reassuring to know that your lung capacity can increase.

    Going into hospital again for anything lung related is not something I want to repeat. ever again.

    After passing your mid-twens chances get pretty low it'll happen again.

    The pains - I got and had to get used to them. Sometimes it feels like my lungs have been torn to bits, on other days it's just fine.
    But I do think they are partly phantom (doc suggested that too), though, as I had a strong fear over all those years it'll happen again.
    So then I felt quite happy to pick up many reassuring words from my doc last year that it is very unlikely it will happen again - especially after bringing them up to that capacity. The pain was also most likely due to that they had to grow and move around for moar space.

    It's possible, and very rewarding if you stick to it and carry on.

    heh, fucking right, never do I want to go to be poked at my lungs in hospital again too.

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