My girlfriend had the same condition except (IIRC) hers was so severe that they had to technically perform open-heart surgery on her by opening up her chest right in the middle, breaking her sternum (maybe even a couple ribs) and implanting the bar to basically push her chest back out. Was this operation a possibility for you or was yours not as bad?
Also, she got her bar taken out in May and despite 2-ish weeks of being really really sore and another week or two of being progressively less sore, everything went really well. Good luck to you in October
edit: I believe the name of the surgery she had is the modified ravitch procedure
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My girlfriend had the same condition except (IIRC) hers was so severe that they had to technically perform open-heart surgery on her by opening up her chest right in the middle, breaking her sternum (maybe even a couple ribs) and implanting the bar to basically push her chest back out. Was this operation a possibility for you or was yours not as bad?
Also, she got her bar taken out in May and despite 2-ish weeks of being really really sore and another week or two of being progressively less sore, everything went really well. Good luck to you in October
edit: I believe the name of the surgery she had is the modified ravitch procedure
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