Does anyone know anything about PECTUS EXCAVATUM? Help please.

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I have just read an 'ask the doctor' page in a magazine. A reader asked about her child who had a slightly sunken chest and a pot belly. Alarm bells started ringing because DS2 aged 7 is like this but we never have been concerned by it. He is very skinny so we put his pot belly down to him being skin and bone . His chest only sinks in a little bit and the sunken bit is about the size of a 50p. The person responding to the question said it sounded like pectus.
I am now in a real tizz because I have just looked at the website pectus.org and it is terrifying. Does anyone have any experience of this?
I have got him a doctors appointment but not until Monday and I am beside myself with worry.

bump i think my middle two boys both have this, i noticed it a while ago (theya re jsut 7 and 4 yrs) but the little ones is getting worse as he gets taller, it is very obvious but doesnt seem to cause him any problems.

i am however taking him to the gp this afternoon to get it checked out and will also mention that one of his brothers seems to have the same thing.

they are both tall scrawny boys with pot bellies and ds2 has a hernia as well, which can be linked apparently.

have stopped googling as i dont want to scare myself.....

4madboys, I hope this thread reassured you a little bit.

A very good friend of mine has pectus. He's 31 and has run several marathons and is very fit and healthy.

At parties he used to fill the dip with drinks and get women to drink it out. It was quite the party trick.

Hope all goes well. Let us know.