u/Barnatron_

A positive update - I’m out the brace (hooray!), consultant happy with bone healing and the wounds. It’s so weird to go from walking with the leg locked in extension to walking with ROM. The protocol I had to follow post op was FWB in extension with brace & crutches for 8 weeks.

I’ve managed to get up to 85° active flexion, though it does take 15-20 minutes of warming up my leg to reach. Interestingly when I bend my leg without the brace on, it’s much more stiff - I wonder if it’s psychological 🤔.

If anyone has any questions about the surgery / recovery / pre op please ask away! I had commented this list I found helpful immediately post-op on another post: https://www.reddit.com/r/KneeInjuries/s/PpABNDPXRE

It feels like the new generation of guys hold such double standards around the topic of body count.

In an ex partner he held the view that a woman’s body count is not the same as a man’s. He reasoned this by saying it’s routed in history - i.e A king can have multiple wives, men had power over their lineage etc. To which I had challenged that he held traditional / misogynistic views , and society is changing in the current world - this doesn’t mean what was believed X amount of years ago should be believed today.

Though he began to say how women have more choices in partners - therefore it means the woman chose to sleep with X amount of men. And a man doesn’t have as many choices therefore he’s not choosing to add to his body count? (I can’t remember his exact argument here).

I vividly remember this guy telling me he didn’t become official with his last partner because her body count was 8. His was 12. His was higher. (I don’t care for body count for either gender, but I could not understand him being so hell bent on this, despite his being higher than her body count, but hers was too high, therefore he could not date her.)

It annoys me that the view is “man sleeping with lots of women = okay, understandable, sometimes impressive” and “woman sleeping with lots of men = questionable because she “chose” it”.

Rant over but I’d love to understand this deep rooted way of thinking. Ps I know not all guys think like this, I just find the psychology interesting behind it - is it insecurity? Is it deep rooted misogyny? Is it taught with the upcoming / older red pill ideologies?

I had an MPFL reconstruction and TTO ~ 7 weeks ago, and I’ve been having an infrequent burning sensation down my shin, sometimes accompanied by my skin feeling hot to touch on and around the knee/shin.

Today I woke up with the burning sensation lasting 2-3 hours, with my skin hot to touch, and blotchy redness at my lower shin/ankle. I decided to google it and it’s saying my symptoms are similar to metalware rejection, which I hope is not the case! Has anyone experienced this burning / hot to touch sensation post op with metalware or experienced rejection post op? I do wonder if it’s nerve irritation causing the burning sensation, though I’m not sure if that would also cause the hot to touch sensation too.