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Pectus Excavatum

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15k subscribers208 posts / mo in Sep 2026146 authors / mosince 2012

r/PectusExcavatum has 15k members (+19% over the last 12 months). It gets about 208 posts a month from 146 people. Top topics: Chest Growth, Gym Progress Tracker and Body Transformation.

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Size and growth

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+19%in 12 months · +3.5% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 202615k
Growing15k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/PectusExcavatum

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−15%vs Sep 2025 · +7.8% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026208
QuieterPeaked at 376 in Jun 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

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Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Chest Growth0.8%
  2. Gym Progress Tracker0.3%
  3. Body Transformation0.1%
  4. Lifting Progress Over Years0.1%
  5. Gym Progress Over Years0.1%

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research