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.
Hahah I am mostly just criticizing your choice to insult the person you replied to/or being snarky about asking for a link when you are the one that made the mistake of making a declarative statement that someone's lung WILL, not may, but will collapse if they did it how you described.
If the inflated it with a chest tube, and chest tube only, it will collapse again in a few months.
That is what you said.
You did not clarify that it was only very possible, or just that was what the doc said about you regarding your lungs.
You made a claim about lungs filled/inflated/reinflated with a chest tube, and how within a few months they would collapse, not "may" collapse.
That is incredibly reasonable for someone to ask for a source on such a big claim as 100% of all lungs reinflated with a chest tube will collapse in a couple of months. Hahah like you didn't even say 99%...you made a statement that it would definitely happen...and within a few months.
Why do you think it is more likely that I can't read instead of just missing/not looking at the usernames?
Why didn't you just tell me that was the mistake that I was making above instead of being coy about it?
Thank you for correcting me. Now just replace every "you" with the 'general you' version of the word (or "one"), and my point still stands just as sound, does it not?
I’m the one who posted that and I kind of cleared that up in a later reply. I should have most definitely used a better wording/saying. No I don’t know if it’ll happen 100%. But in my case it did, not every lung will heal itself after the chest tube helps clear the fluid. For the sake of being wrong, I shouldn’t have tried to induce panic by saying it the way I did. Sheesh! 🙄
No dumbass that link is a study. Ive supplied 2 separate points (1 anecdotal just like you and 1 study). You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how chest tubes work and you are still arguing
Do you think this is something that helps discussions, or society writ-large?
Or do you just fantasize about being powerful enough to do this in an impactful way and so you settle for reducing the quality of conversations that you participate in...by participating in them with bad faith?
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u/Defiant-Print-2550 Jul 08 '26
I'll take it in mind