Does anyone here have a sunken chest? How does getting fit affect how it looks? Does it "fill in"...

Does anyone here have a sunken chest? How does getting fit affect how it looks? Does it "fill in"? Does it still look weird?

I have one. It stays the same. It does not fill because there are no muscles, just pec origins attached to it.
It looks as it looks. But lifting will make you look better overall.
My advice: Don't worry about it

i have it. getting fit will make it look better, much better.

i still hate it, because it kind of ruins my asthetics.
I want to get rid of it someday, but i will first get shredded and jacked before i do it.

i wish someone thought me to have a correct posture and get some vitamins when i grew up.
I was walking around like an gorilla my entire life, and now i have to live with it.

thanks mom and dad, thanks doctors.

there was a guy in high school who had this bad. everyone would make fun and call him a hermaphrodite becuase we learned in biology class a sunken chest is a sign of having both sex organs

he ended up taking steroids and got jacked. he looks great now it really covered it up well.

I feel you man, my parents didnt gave a shit about it.
Luckily mine is not that bad but still pisses me off

The only permanent solution is surgery, which is expensive and extremely painful.
To anyone who has got PE, the only way to make it look "good" is staying lean and having good posture.
Being bloated or skinnyfat with PE is the worst combination, it will make your dent look a lot deeper.

Unless you have a very bad case getting fit will make you look great. No one will notice unless they are looking for it.
~NEVER GIVE UP~

I'm Good to read that. I'm not that shredded yet but I know that good posture can partly make it look better. Walk tall and keep ur head up OP.

I used to be embarrassed by it but after lifting I've totally forgotten about it. I take off my shirt whenever I can and people rarely comment on it. When they do I tell them it's a masterrace thing that flatchestlets wouldn't understand.

It's pectus excavatum, go see a specialist

Only real treatment is painful surgery which is not even guaranteed to help you

I have it, its nothing.

Just accept you'll always have a shit chest and will never be a fitness model and deal with it. Work your back and shoulders to get flying squirrel mode instead.

Girls don't care at all, btw. The only comments I've ever gotten were how much they love putting their head on my chest because it feels nice.

Pic related but not me

>The only permanent solution is surgery, which is expensive and extremely painful.
If you have really bad PE then your insurance might cover it and the pain isn't even that bad.

Getting fit doesn't change how it looks that much. It'll always look weird, if you have it severe enough that it medically affects you then go to a doctor and see your options about having the Nuss Procedure otherwise you can just do what I did with mine and just deal with it.

If I can manage swimming in a public pool with it multiple times a week then so can you eventually. I'm not saying it's easy to get over. It wasn't for me but it is possible. People generally don't care about it desu. Took me too long to realise that.

Also if Cody Miller can make it to the gold medal winning US 4x100m Medley Relay at the Olympics with it I think you should be fine.

I had it real bad

Stil looks bad now but less noticeable

My uncle has it, he always said girls loved they could lay on his chest and put one of their boobs in the hole without squashing it.

Praise God for the blessing of the boob holder!

actively hinders my athletic performance which sucks

but whatever. take the cards you're dealt and turn them into aces

Get the surgery like we all do

This.

1 girl had tits that were made to fit in my chest.

I had no idea it was so common. I didn't know I had it til I started putting on weight and muscle (fat rests on top of pec muscles accentuating it even further)

Then again, if I didn't know I had it until that point, I probably don't actually have it, or a version so minor that it was never diagnosed.

Doesn't it come with breathing issues? Surely a doctor would've noticed

>the pain isn't even that bad.
> Bed ridden for three weeks in hospital with insane pain, incredibly difficult to breath #
> The next 6 months of recovery you are essentially invalid
> Back sores and back pains from having to sleep only on your back
I'm glad I got it, but the pain was fucking insane, not to mention I couldn't work out for like 10 months

>actively hinders my athletic performance which sucks
I remember before getting the surgery I had my shit scanned, the pressure from the cave in increased my hearts and lungs blood vessels

i don't understand. is that a good thing?

i've only heard that athletic performance increases after surgery due to the increased lung volume and heart effectiveness

I don't really know, the surgeon might have been roosing me, but he said its very bad

It makes your heart work harder before the surgery but it will never be as effective as a non-PE heart until you get the surgery.

Is that political cartoon supposed to be critical of Trump supporters?

oh well mine is only about 1.5 inches or so (i think) which isn't so bad so i don't think it's too damaging

sometimes if i exercise really hard though it gets a little painful but i can't be bothered with the surgery.

Why did you have this conversation? Did your uncle molest you?

Only if it's severe enough will you get breathing problems and heart problems. Mild cases are almost entirely cosmetic. There is an Olympic swimmer with the condition obviously it doesn't necessarily effect you that much.

Maybe its because I had zero muscle for them to cut through but only the first three weeks were painful.
I also got some good pain medication so there's that.
The worst part about the whole experience for me was when the nurse's had to pull out the draining tubes and catheter.

pectoral excavatum

if bad enough, it can cause breathing problems. easily fixable

source: im a med student