Anyone ever had miniscus (knee) issues

Have no idea what I did but hurts like fucking hell. Trouble walking and stiff as hell. Anyone ever had issue before and does it heal with time or surgery only route. Can’t get into ortho Dr fir 2 weeks. That’s crazy

 

Surgery. BTW, 18 days afterwards may be a week or two too soon to run a 5k....

 

Could be just pinched instead of torn. Shot of cortisone could be all you need.

 

I had my left medial meniscus removed 44 years ago.
It still hurts. Good luck.

 

Yeah. I have a thread on here somewhere about knee surgery. I actually went to a PT first to get a preliminary diagnosis and he referred me to a specialist who got me in right away.

 

My dad had his scoped and his was torn a bit. I think he said they just cleaned it up and his was better in a few weeks. Results im sure vary.

 

It depends on which part is damaged. There is a smaller section that can heal on it's own. The larger section doesn't get any real blood flow and never heals. They usually just trim back whatever is causing the irritation or remove it. Just depends on your age and level of physical activity. Recovery from removal is actually pretty fast, couple weeks to get back on the court usually for basketball players. Though obviously the long term health of suffers in that scenario.

 

I wouldn’t diagnose yourself with meniscus issues.

Could be a tendon, arthritis, etc. Ice never hurts and often helps.

 

I’ve had lots of work done on one knee. What I’ve learned from all of it; start with PT and avoid a knife if possible.

If you do get the knife, stick with the PT regime as best you can.

Here’s one side, two days after having a 17mm inclusion looked after via an osteopath articular cartilage transfer system (OATS). The procedure is the easy part, it’s the PT and weakness that’s the hard part. My quadracep basically disappeared after not being able to walk for two months. After that, it was about two years before I’d call it 90%. And that’s about as good as it gets. Still limp a little and can’t run for shit.

 

I have had two meniscus tears in my left knee, plus and ACL and MCL in same knee. Go see your Ortho specialist, get the MRI, try PT if the tear isnt too bad. My second tear was called a "bucket handle" tear. Basically I have no cushion in the knee so running is just completely out of the question but I can till mountain bike all day long. Gets a little sore at the end of a big trail day but it's the price for a life well lived.

 

Hope to get this looked at and addressed soon. Thank you for the replies. I hate any surgery as when I shattered my arm back in 2000 (vicious high side) I got staph and fought it fir almost a year.

 

I had a small meniscus flap that would lock up and hurt like hell. I had it scoped and they just cleaned it up along with a couple of raggedy cartilage pieces. I walked out of the surgery center and had no pain at all. I only had one stitch and a couple of band-aides

 

I have torn mine. It can heal, depends on where it tears. My tear was on the side, ortho gave it 50/50. I decided to wait. It did eventually heal though. Took like 6mo+ before it stopped being sore.

 

I had basically this same thing. I had already had full ACL reconstruction on that knee, so the trimmed the meniscus flap that tore and cleaned up some scar tissue and it's been pretty much perfect, and that was over 15 years ago.

 

understand the meniscus have VERY LOW BLOOD FLOW, that means they take a long time to heal. i have had 3 knee surgeries on 2 knees, 2 were specific for meniscus. one was devastating, where i blew out the capsules. the next on the same knee was a few years later, where one of the meniscus was cut, and flipped a flap over and under itself. VERY PAINFUL, like a rock or pebble between the upper and lower leg bones. they went in clipped my flap out and trimmed me up, and i was good to go after a week or so on crutches.

they most likely will want an mri to see what is going on, then decide on surgery or PT. guessing you will need surgery. if you do, DO WHAT THE DOC SAYS AND STAY OFF THE MENISCUS, AND LET IT HEAL!

the low blood flow to the region, will lengthen the recovery time. enjoy the time off, or you will damage it further, and need more help, and surgeries, and longer recovery.

good luck, Ski

 

They "trimmed" mine while they were in there replacing my ACL with spare cadaver parts. The wife's was completely separated and she had surgery to re-attach it a couple weeks ago. 6 weeks non weight bearing on that leg... our place is not currently the fun zone...

 

just on the right side


Doc - MRI - surgery - PT - elevate leg - cool - get fluid drawn - PT

 

Yes had my surgery in in 2017 2 days before thanksgiving. Was back to work with a cane on monday. ACL and meniscus.

 

You guys keep posting these pics and I'm gonna get fired for watching animal porn at work

 

Mine really was pretty minor. If it wasn't for the flap causing a mechanical issue, I probably just lived with the pain for a while longer, but getting it fixed was pretty easy and painless. If it had been compounded by a big tear or an ACL, it would have been a much longer recovery.
Good luck and hope that it is just a little flap that can be trimmed up.