u/Icy_Draw213

I am getting ACL reconstruction with a quad graft and meniscus repair or debridement on August 18. Are peptides really worth it? For me personally I’m not a fan of the price, pinning, and have concerns with NCAA rules. I won’t be tested this year so not too concerned with NCAA but worth consideration.

I never lost full range of motion and only had minor swelling after injury (swelling has since gone away). I’ve been prehabbing pretty hard, but already have very developed legs so I have a good starting point there.

I’m just really nervous for surgery and I am going to be a senior next year (NCAA passed new rules for 5 years of eligibility so next year will kind of be a “redshirt” for me although redshirts don’t exist anymore). I just want to recover as well as possible and if peptides will help me do that than I should at least entertain the idea.

Some questions I have:

How long do I need to take the peptides for their benefits?

Where would I inject?

Should I ask my doctor about this?

Ok so I’ve (21m) injured my knee before with sprains but they always got better. This time it wasn’t like the other times because after a month it still wasn’t better. The day to day was fine (only stiff for couple days after the incident then back to ok) but hard planting was just a no go and I didn’t trust it. Finally see sports doc on Monday and he says my ACL feels loose (I was not expecting ACL at all) and he puts my MRI on stat and I get it the next day, which made me very nervous. Here were the results:

1. There is a partial tear of the proximal through mid
   ACL with distal
   ACL fibers remaining attached to the femur.
2. There is a horizontal tear of the body and posterior horn of the
   medial meniscus. There is also a possible coexisting radial tear of
   the inner edge of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus. There is
   an 8 mm soft tissue just superior to the posterior horn of the medial
   meniscus near the root and in the region of the radial tear concerning for displaced meniscal fragment.
3. There is small edema adjacent to the MCL and medial joint capsule
   suggestive of MCL and capsular sprain.
4. There is edema within the posterior proximal lateral tibia
   adjoining the tibial fibular articulation suggestive of bone marrow contusion.
5. There is a Baker's cyst present which may have ruptured as there is
   fluid tracking around the anterior medial gastrocnemius muscle.
6. A small joint effusion is present.

So, yeah really was not expecting that and I meet with the doctor again on Monday (July 6)so I’ll find out what surgery I have to get then. I really hope I can avoid ACL reconstruction.

Regardless tho, it looks like my meniscus will need repaired. One of my teammates had this surgery last year and he was out 4+ months post op. So if I get the surgery within the month that would put me at November return at the absolute best (season starts Nov 1, I’m going to miss that). But when can I start recovering my conditioning to actually be ready to wrestle again realistically while making sure not to rush it?

I’m mainly thinking about when I can get back to wrestling but there’s also a much more pressing matter coming up soon in that I am starting an internship with an nfl team for training camp July 15th. That will be outdoors and require me to be able to move and carry weight. Which fucking blows and I haven’t let them know what’s up with my knee yet because I haven’t met with the doctor. My friend that got his meniscus repaired said he could barely walk for 2 weeks after the surgery with a brace but no crutches. But like surely this will affect my work but I hope I can still work.

I’m going to be a senior in college and I wrestle. This wouldn’t be my last year of eligibility as the NCAA passed new eligibility rules with 5 years of eligibility but regardless this still sucks a lot. And it happening in the summer means I might be back in the season but I won’t be able to practice at all and develop this summer which sucks.

All of this hasn’t really set in for me yet and I’ve never had an injury like this before. I know I’ll get thru it but it’s just all very overwhelming for me right now.

So if any of you have advice for what I can do to make my recovery go as fast as possible or have some words of encouragement I would greatly appreciate that.

Ok so I’ve (21m) injured my knee before with sprains but they always got better. This time it wasn’t like the other times because after a month it still wasn’t better. The day to day was fine (only stiff for couple days after the incident then back to ok) but hard planting was just a no go and I didn’t trust it. Finally see sports doc on Monday and he says my ACL feels loose (I was not expecting ACL at all) and he puts my MRI on stat and I get it the next day, which made me very nervous. Here were the results:

1. There is a partial tear of the proximal through mid
   ACL with distal
   ACL fibers remaining attached to the femur.
2. There is a horizontal tear of the body and posterior horn of the
   medial meniscus. There is also a possible coexisting radial tear of
   the inner edge of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus. There is
   an 8 mm soft tissue just superior to the posterior horn of the medial
   meniscus near the root and in the region of the radial tear concerning for displaced meniscal fragment.
3. There is small edema adjacent to the MCL and medial joint capsule
   suggestive of MCL and capsular sprain.
4. There is edema within the posterior proximal lateral tibia
   adjoining the tibial fibular articulation suggestive of bone marrow contusion.
5. There is a Baker's cyst present which may have ruptured as there is
   fluid tracking around the anterior medial gastrocnemius muscle.
6. A small joint effusion is present.

So, yeah really was not expecting that and I meet with the doctor again on Monday (July 6)so I’ll find out what surgery I have to get then. I really hope I can avoid ACL reconstruction.

Regardless tho, it looks like my meniscus will need repaired. One of my teammates had this surgery last year and he was out 4+ months post op. So if I get the surgery within the month that would put me at November return at the absolute best (season starts Nov 1, I’m going to miss that). But when can I start recovering my conditioning to actually be ready to wrestle again realistically while making sure not to rush it?

I’m mainly thinking about when I can get back to wrestling but there’s also a much more pressing matter coming up soon in that I am starting an internship with an nfl team for training camp July 15th. That will be outdoors and require me to be able to move and carry weight. Which fucking blows and I haven’t let them know what’s up with my knee yet because I haven’t met with the doctor. My friend that got his meniscus repaired said he could barely walk for 2 weeks after the surgery with a brace but no crutches. But like surely this will affect my work but I hope I can still work.

I’m going to be a senior in college and I wrestle. This wouldn’t be my last year of eligibility as the NCAA passed new eligibility rules with 5 years of eligibility but regardless this still sucks a lot. And it happening in the summer means I might be back in the season but I won’t be able to practice at all and develop this summer which sucks.

All of this hasn’t really set in for me yet and I’ve never had an injury like this before. I know I’ll get thru it but it’s just all very overwhelming for me right now.

So if any of you have advice for what I can do to make my recovery go as fast as possible or have some words of encouragement I would greatly appreciate that.

Context: I 21(m) and my girlfriend 21(f) have been dating for just under 2 years. This is my first relationship. This is her second relationship, she met her ex in middle school, dated in high school, and broke up just before college (for real reasons). My gf and I go to the same college, the ex does not. We also live nearby at home, but her ex lives in her town and I’m about 20 minutes away.

She first started texting him again last spring. She says she does it to get back at me. Her words: “So I’m going to be completely honest. I first texted my ex bc I was mad at u and I knew u were going to go thru my phone so u were going to see it.”

I do need to admit that I am a dick at times and I do put her thru a lot. I have been blackout drunk far too many times and have said and done things I shouldn’t have done. I don’t want to undersell this, but I wrote this all out and closed app and deleted and figured this is not the part I need advice with. Because the answer is for me to control my drinking, and as I clearly have problems doing that 100% of the time, I should probably stop drinking. But I will move on.

So throughout the ensuing summer she had met with him several times. She braided his hair when he asked her too (presumably at a previous time they met). They started watching Demon Slayer together (a show that she would also come over to my house and watch, which just makes me sick thinking about it). And they had been texting this whole time.

We were sleeping in the basement at the time but I just had to get up and start walking outside because I just couldn’t stay in my own head. I don’t even make it half a mile before she’s in her car behind me telling me to get it.

After this she asks for my forgiveness and equates what I’ve done to what she did.

I didn’t go thru her phone until late July and that’s when I found all of this. I felt sick.

I’m not sure if I found this out then or not but on our anniversary (July 19) I took her to get her nails done, then to eat a nice brunch, then to a nice garden, but I ruined the day by saying Angel Reese was hot. This made her mad (fair). But we had also planned to go out and we went out to the bar that night. While at the bar she was talking to this guy and said she was going to have him buy her a drink. Later on in the night she wanted to dance with me in an outside lit area and I didn’t want to because I felt uncomfortable. This made her mad. But eventually we went home. And we talked about it. She told me that we were done. And then she decided that she was going to leave (in her car, she was pretty drunk). She turned her location off. I didn’t sleep that night fearing where she might have went.

And guess what? She went to her exs house and slept in his bed. Now she claims she just slept, got up in the morning and left. I can’t remember if she said she slept at the bottom or not. Idk. It shouldn’t matter.

Aaaaaaand she literally came and saw me the next day.

But this was last summer and I moved on because I love her (I think she cut off contact with him after this for the summer but I don’t really remember). She really is a great person and the good far outweighs the bad. But I’m not coming to this subreddit to talk about the good.

I don’t really know where to fit this in but she had him on her close friends on instagram but not me for the entirety our relationship until I brought it up, and then even after that didn’t change it.

We go back to school and everything was mostly chill until the spring. But she would only text him and not for long and only when mad at me (reasonably so), so like nothing important here.

Well on my birthday we went on a trip to Chicago and one night my mom got really drunk and was really embarrassing (apple don’t fall far from the tree). This made my girlfriend upset and her vibes were just cooked from that point forward. Later that night she went thru my phone and found a video of a white girl saying happy birthday to me and another video I sent of a girl who we call “big nose fat butt”. I did not come up with that name and yes it’s very mean but also very fitting. Regardless I sent those videos months prior in the chat and she scrolled up found it and got super pissed. I just froze because I didn’t know what to do/say.

We had a talk and I said that I wish she didn’t go thru my phone. She was like ok let’s agree to not go thru each others phones, and I was like sure.

Following a black out incident (really should lay off the alc, was doing so good that night until I randomly started crying about a relationship that didn’t work out between my girlfriend’s roommate and my roommate, with my girlfriend’s roommate in the room. Like what the fuck me). But she said that if I piss her off she’ll start talking to other people. So she started texting her ex. She texted him the day we got home from school.

About 2 weeks later, I just can’t shake the feeling that something’s up even though she’s staying at my house most nights and I check her phone to only she she’s been texting this nigga. Not only texting but linking up to smoke. Her reaction to me finding this out was saying “hey that’s not fair”

She always says that she hasn’t done anything with him and would tell me if she did. Reading the messages, that’s how it seems. Her ex is definitely still into her tho, and told her that in the messages and she basically said hell no, but how am I to know that’s all it is. Like I want to believe her but I just don’t know if I can.

I am really painting her out to be the bad guy here but to be fair every time she started talking to him coincides with a time she was really mad at me. Sometimes I just feel like she’s looking for a reason to be mad at me. But most of the time it’s just me being a dumbass or an asshole that makes her mad

And like her ex is a fat lazy band kid. I’m a smart handsome athlete. Not to like self glaze here but I think it’s important.