Looks like surgery on the knee is called for. Scheduled for June 23 with 2 weeks on crutches and another 4 weeks on light duty. If that don't work it is a total knee replacement down the line sometime. Their going to clean it out and repair the tear in the medial meniscus. Arthritis is on the top of the meniscus and it is almost bone on bone. Getting old really sucks. No riding for a while it looks like
They can usually buy you some time if it almost bone on bone but you better be prepared for the total knee replacement down the road. The good part is they have that one down pat and I have had 2 fishing buddies who have had that procedure done. They both said they wished they had done it sooner. No more pain for the first time in years and the operation wasn't all that bad. The PT though was a bit tough but they push you right from the start and it gives a great result. I had an ACL on the left knee many years ago and about 10 years ago had the meniscus fixed on the other knee. That old ACL will probably need something else done down the road but the meniscus repair never gives me any problems. Good luck with your operation.
Yep, I will miss some riding time but hope I'm in good repair for the hunting season even though I still have not obtained somewhere to hunt yet.
Had my surgury on Wednesday, same as yours, walked 2 miles today. Only hurts when I bend it too far, or twist it.
had plenty of knee surgeries, now the only thing the docs will do is give me shots every 6 months until they feel I'm old enough for replacement.
Wow, Rick... I hope you heal up quickly and can get back on your feet. At least this won't put you out of commission during hunting season.
My vote is always get a second opinion.. doc's are doing hips and knees these days like drive thru oil change stations.
I've had to go to therapy for several weeks for my neck from the fall I had on the ice last winter when I broke my ribs. Every day there I see these guys who have had replacement knees put in. Man, they have a tough road to travel. BUT, in the few weeks I went I saw some remarkable improvement in a couple of them. The therapist really push them and make them stretch it all out through all sorts of gyrations. They groan and moan but they keep pushing them. Sometimes someone will say I can't... and they'll tell him YOU MUST and YOU WILL. DO IT. I felt like a malingerer with my little neck problem when I watched them fight through the pain. It's one of the toughest things but the results are great when it's healed. I'm done with therapy now and doing well.... but I still wonder how those guys are doing. Most of them were OLD dudes... I'm talking late 70s and up. I always wondered how much faster they would have heeled if they had done it in the 60s or something. The one thing you can be thankful for is all that weight you lost. Man, if you were still toting that it would be a chore.
David on a total knee replacement they have you out of bed the next day. I hear the ones that resist it have a very hard time with it as far as motion of their leg. Although this thing is hurting more every day and stays swelled up I really don't think a replacement is in my future, pray not anyway. I'm almost ready to call the Doc and see if he can't somehow get me in earlier.
Yes they have them out of bed.... but the swelling and all that adds a lot of misery to recovery. As the swelling went down I could see these guys improve. We're talking legs twice as big as the other one swelling.
Hope all goes well for you, thats a nice quick recovery time too. Mine was 8 weeks on crutches and 9 months on light duty.
I had a condition called Osteochondritis Dissecans, which in short is a chipped piece of bone on the end of the knee. I had surgery in the beginning of september, it was all done with a scope. The doctor took four bone plugs out of the top on my knee and inserted them into the broken part of the knee to kinda "screw" the piece back together. After a few complications of excess fluid and such i was cleared to do normal activity last week. The doc said it could never be back to a 100 percent and its likely in the distant future they would have to go back in.
Holy Crap Simon..... you're not even 20 years old. What in the hell happened to the knee to begin with?
