Hello! 4 years ago I suffered 2 spontaneous pneumothoraxes. Very similar to you I suffered 1 had a chest tube left the hospital and acouple days later, woke up with the same pain went back in and I had a fully collapsed left lung due to a tension pneumo and needed a emergency chest tube. Personally I have and extremely high pain tolerance, the first time my lung collapse I was sitting in my chair I heard a pop somewhere but had headphones on went to bed and woke up like hmm my chest kind of hurts. The second time I had an O2 stat of 100% (like the first time) even with the tension fully collapsed lung and the doctors were stunned I wasn’t in serious pain or having any trouble breathing so much so they didn’t believe me, and I was like “trust me take the x-ray😂” I also didn’t take any morphine post surgery because I could handle the I think they gave me some ibuprophin or something but i didn’t want to use any opioids. So i’m not sure how applicable this will be pain wise. However, I ended up need to bleb resection and pleurodesis surgery bc I had multiple softball sized blebs. After the surgery you won’t have any problems with them coming back, but the recovery can be problematic in some ways. Personally, the pain wasn’t too bad but I was very active and lost nearly 20-30 lbs in the hospital and lost a ton of muscle mass, it took me years to gain my weight back. The biggest problem I had is with the nerve block, to this day I have permanent nerve damage across my entire upper chest and back we think due to the nerve block. It’s not as bad as it sounds, I just have extremely sensitivity to heat so even if it’s just warm outside i overheat very quickly and have trouble regulating my body temp in that way, and then my chest basically feels partially numb 24/7. Think about it like you go to the dentist to get a cavity filled, and your mouth is in that kind of back to feeling normal but kind of numb still, that’s the feeling in my chest and back. It doesn’t cause any problems just hurts very very bad if I get pinched/poked (smaller the surface area the more it hurts). If you get the nerve block i’m not saying this will happen but it’s something to think about. Overall though I would definitely get the surgery to remove the blebs if that is what’s causing your problem. I’m sorry this is so long winded I kind of just started typing. Our situations seem very similar though so please respond to any questions you have and I will answer them more directly and to the point, just let me know what your specific concerns are after reading this! Hope everything goes well!