Meniscus Surgery

[GhostCDB]

Asking for prayers, because I just had my knee surgery on my meniscus. Pray that it gets better so I can run track in college and follow up my dream in going to the Olympics. Please and thank you.

 

[ozrocker]

  Best Wishes for speedy recovery!





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[Rob52240]

Good luck sir.  When I tore mine skiing the only thing that made it feel normal was walking on it.  Getting out of bed after not using for 8 hours took about a half hour, by the end of the day walking on it I'd feel nearly 100% until I woke up the next morning.

[AKHog]

I just had my meniscus stitched back together 1 week ago. It was my 2nd surgery on the same knee, my first was about 5 years ago from which I was fully recovered. I had a separate accident to injure it the second time.

If they removed the damaged part you can usually walk out of the hospital and be mostly back to normal in 3-6 weeks.

If you have it stitched together you have no weight bearing for 3 weeks and a much longer recovery time. The benefit is the more stuff they leave in there the better.

A lot of your recovery depends on how much damage you did to the rest of your knee. I broke my knee cap and tore a bunch of cartridge, my doc told me I have a high likelihood of arthritis and will probably be a candidate for a knee replacement some day. 

Rather than wishing, hoping, or praying, I would suggest good P/T and lots of hard work in the recovery. Good P/T will really suck, it hurts and is boring, but it's the only way to get strong again.

[xbrit]

I had mine done in March last year, it would be hard to compare because I am a lot older and diabetic
so the recovery time will be different. I was off work for about ten weeks, I had my surgery on a Friday
and started P/T the Wednesday after.
P/T was very hard to start with, just pedaling the bike caused a lot of pain, but over the weeks it got easier.
Stay with your P/T and try to push yourself and you will probably get back to somewhere close to how
you were before, I work with some younger people and one of those had the surgery about four years
ago and now she says it's just like normal.
Best wishes for your recovery and with your dreams for the future.
P.S. like Akhog said watch out in later life, I now have arthritis in that knee and the same prognosis for
knee replacement.

[rpm]

Rather than wishing, hoping, or praying, I would suggest good P/T and lots of hard work in the recovery.

[Bino]

They are all different.  I had a meniscus tear fixed - via arthroscope - just two weeks ago, today.  But I'm 60, so they don't try repairs: the Doc just snips away a little of the damaged bit. I was on the stationary bike the very next day, and I plan to go back to my Tai Chi class next week.  Stick with the Physical Therapy program they give you, and good luck!   

[Nypsy]

Good luck to you!

[Midway]

Asking for prayers, because I just had my knee surgery on my meniscus. Pray that it gets better so I can run track in college and follow up my dream in going to the Olympics. Please and thank you.

 

  Olympics?

 

[kilo2]

Work hard during physical therapy. I tore my ACL playing football so I understand what it's like.

[bortas1]