Xiphoid Process a/k/a the big lump on my chest

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. As I continue to lose weight bones are obviously becoming more visible and poking out a bit. Well now when I lay down *or* suck my stomach in while standing I have this very large (golf ball sized) circular lump just below and between my breasts...like on the end of my sternum before my ribcage. Apparently this weird thing is called a Xiphoid Process. I didn't know this and freaked out thinking the worst. I called my mom who told me the name and DH consulted Dr. Google and apparently it's normal in people who have been very overweight and then lose a lot of weight. I guess the excess weight causes it to form differently or move slightly because it's like cartilege and so now I have a big giant lump that sticks out. Weird, huh?

 Nope, not weird.  Normal.  I gots one too.

Glad to know I'm not alone! What's weird is that my husband is and has always been "normal sized" and doesn't have it! Neither of my parents have it either and they both had RNY 4 years ago. I'm the oddball in my family I guess LOL

I have it too! So did my brother but he was always thin.

I have one too! I had no idea it was normal in those of us that have lost alot of weight, but oddly enough, I feel better now. LOL!

Everyone has a xyphoid process but it can stick out funny on some people. I havent lost enough belly yet to tell if mine is funny shaped.

 It was a surprise to me, too. As soon as my upper abdomen shrank a bit I found it, sticking up like a historical monument to obesity. I'm finding other things, too, that had been buried under decades of fat. Do Not Want! But better the weird lumps and bumps than 120 pounds of fattage.

 It is a norma part of the body.  We just forgot it was there when we were heavy.  It was covered up. I went through the same thing thinking something was wrong about 15 years ago when I lost about 50 pounds on the medication , Redux. Went to my doctor and asked what this knot was in my chest.  He told me it was a normal part of my anatomy.

Yep, completely normal.  Many people who have been very obese for a long time and then lose weight also find that their ribcage has expanded (either front to back, or side to side, or both) under the pressure of all of the intra-abdominal fat below it.  That can account for a larger waistline (but weighing less) than when one was younger but at a higher weight.

Lora

Hahaha! I have to laugh because I had an experience with this as well, I was laying on my sons bike ramp and happened to feel mine and freaked out and thought I had a lump or something, made all my kids come and feel it thinking it was somehting horrible! lol Nope, just a normal part of the body that I had been hiding for al these years! ') Congrats on your loss! It is def weird to feel all these bones that have been buried for so long!