sdb

I'm hardly on here and you're not on when I am, so I thought I'd ask about your knee. Do you hate me now for talking you into getting it scoped?


Just don't do like I did. After about a week, I could walk comfortably on it. I was laying in the floor on my stomach with my knees bent and my "new" knee bent a little too far and I pulled it. It hurt for a few hours. Be careful on that new one. Give it ample time to heal.

Pain meds!! If you can get by during the day without them or with tylenol, do that and save the prescription stuff for nights when you'll hurt more.

Good luck with recovery.

strawser9

I am very attentive to your post since it has my name in it

Thank you for the concern SDB (and others). I am doing well, my surgeon said the surgery went very well. They removed some fat flap that was putting pressure on my patellar tendon from behind, so hopefully that helps. My knee is now clean and solid, hopefully it will heal perfectly.

It is very swollen right now (doesn't help that I stand on it 8 hours a day for the past 3 days)and hurts on the inside when I put too much pressure on it. I'm icing it right now trying to make up for the stress its been under all day. I'm still walking on it carefully, looking like I had a bad experience in prison ...

Anyway, I'm trying to be a man about it and only crying when I'm by myself

Thanks again. I'll try to keep you updated on how I feel without bitching too much

J Mac

you love smiley faces

sdb

I had all the "fishy" looking torn cartilage under my knee cap too.

Best of luck with the healing.

strawser9

Alright, so I finally talked to my surgeon today and got a true answer (lol, thanks to all the people that talked to him for me, but really you guys need to learn how to pay attention)

Plica Syndrome: Overview - eMedicine Orthopedic Surgery

apparently I have a problem only 2% of the population have in which this thing actually gives me enough of a problem to cause excruciating pain. I'm so relieved to find out my problem wasn't caused by improper training...

I'm going to get the left one done in about 2 months, as long as this one heals fine (I'll freakin slit my throat if it didn't fix the problem -- jk, kind of...)

Thanks again for the concern, I appreciate all of you not thinking I was a total whiny bitch (of course I think guns (and malley)had me pegged at 99%)

sdb

we're just glad you've got the problem pin pointed. So did he remove that plica or just trim the size of it?

How's therapy coming?

Malley

Add me in on that one.

strawser9

He removed it...and I'm just doing knee raise/leg extension movement (standing), and walking up stairs slowly right now.

done

sdb

It took me a few weeks before i could walk down stairs. I remember the mister and I going to the mall and we were on the end without an escalator or elevator and I had to walk up/down a flight of stairs. He stood there with me while I walked down extremely slow. I got passed by an elderly woman....

CCBs Dad

Suck it up and make me a smoothie...

But really I hope you recover 100%

strawser9

Knee is still swollen, its been a month since surgery. I've been doing single leg extensions with no weight, leg presses, and SLDL's.

LEG EXTENSIONS
12 reps left, 12 reps right, 12 reps left, 12 reps right (BREAK)
X4

LEG PRESSES (no weight on sled)
12 reps left, 12 reps right, 12 reps left, 12 reps right (Break)
X4

SLDL (135lb)
4 sets of 15

That is my rehab workout 2x per week. Its been going well, getting better each time. My left knee feels a little better as well, but it still hurts like hell if I sit for too long which is telling me it isn't healed.