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12-30-2008, 04:32 PM | #1 |
♥ Chip ♥ Smokey ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Leesburg
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| Anyone have an arthroscopic knee surgery? I was just wondering if anyone had an arthroscopic knee surgery for a meniscus tear or similar and if their knee improved, stayed the same, or got worse after surgery. About 6 years ago, I was riding a green Arabian horse and he decided he wanted to bolt off galloping unexpectedly for no reason. I was thrown off after holding on for a good 30 seconds. I fell directly onto my right knee and it locked into place. I couldn't move it at all. Somehow the people I was with got it working again and I just iced it later and didn't think much of it, even though it hurt like CRAZY. In fact, I even jumped right back on the crazy horse a few minutes later (I must have been gluten for punishment lol). I went to the doctor a few months later because it was still bothering me but she just took an xray and didn't think anything was wrong, so I went for 5 years before going back to the doctor. It had caused me a lot of pain and swelling in those 5 years, but I figured it was just trauma. I decided to go back to another doctor, because it was starting to get to the point where I almost couldn't walk and I was unstable. My job at the time required me to climb on small ladders and I don't know how many times I almost fell backwards because my knee couldn't hold my weight up and I'm a really tiny person, so weight wasn't an issue. He did an MRI and told me I needed to have surgery so about a month later I went ahead and did it. Everything was going great for about 2 weeks and I was walking home (about 10 PM at night) in heels from my second job. When I was almost home I noticed there was this van following me real close and really slowly. When I got to my home stretch, I booked it all the way home and ran as fast as I could (in heels). Ever since then, my knee went back to the way it was prior, so I've seen 3 doctors ever since and they haven't done anything about it.... I was just wondering what other people have experienced and whether my pain could be arthritis as I've been told it is or if I actually maybe hurt it again from running. Also too, for those that went a long time without surgery, did your other knee suffer too? My left knee also causes me a great deal of pain too... not as bad as my right one, but it definitely causes pain.
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12-30-2008, 04:38 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: texas
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| I have had orthoscopic surgery on both of my knees. The first was for torn cartilege and the surgery worked great. The second was from a torn miniscus. That one really didn't work very well. In fact after a year of it getting worse and worse and trying two different kinds of shots, I had both of my knees replaced at the same time. The pain was gone almost immediately. Good luck.
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12-30-2008, 04:51 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: New Jersey
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| I had a full ACL replacement 6 years ago after a skiing accident. If you rehab correctly and do EVERYTHING the doctors say, you should be much better off in the long run. I was told if I didn't get it done I would suffer arthritis early in life. Two metal bolts and a replacement hamstring ligament in my knee later, I am doing just fine. I am sure age plays a roll in recovery and lond term results as well... Best of luck! |
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