I had my ACL reconstruction and meniscus root repair surgery on October 3rd (they stitched the meniscus directly to the bone).
Surprisingly, I can already do full weight-bearing. My doctor actually advised me to bear as much weight as possible, and when I tried it, I felt literally zero pain—though I suspect that is due to the nerve block!
I was discharged today after spending a day in the hospital. I'm finally back home now and taking the medications they prescribed: antibiotics, codeine, and paracetamol.
I’m posting a video showing how much I can currently bend and straighten my leg, since I know a lot of people struggle with their range of motion early on. In my case, I can still straighten and bend it to a certain degree, but the pain is definitely starting to increase now. It's reducing my mobility a bit, but I'm pushing through and tolerating the pain as much as I can.

I posted recently about the three different opinions I received regarding my partial medial meniscus tear. I am currently trying to make the decision to be able to be comfortable, perform at top level, and avoid a TKR in the future. MD at HSS in Stamford wants to do a repair. To date, I have had 2 visits. Both were w the PA. The second was after my MRI to discuss results and treatment. She said tbe Dr reccomended root repair. They were ready to schedule me. I thought it irregular that I had not met the Dr at this visit. Has anyone else experienced this?

After waiting at the top of a very big kicker in Kaprun for ten minutes, I figured it was too early for the park rats and took the jump without a speed check. I landed a bit too early on the knuckle, no big deal, didn't even fall just an unpleasant shock. It was that uneventful I think there may have been a small asymptomatic meniscus tear present for a long time, which was simply extended because of the shock. I sat down in the ski lift, and only then I started to notice that my left knee was swelling up tremendously. I skied down on my right leg and limped to the car. At the chalet I suspected a meniscus tear but my uncles (one a pain doctor, the other one had a meniscus tear) downplayed it when i explained them what happened, so I didn't bother to check out my knee immediately, hoping it would go away on its own.

After a few months, I could stand and walk perfectly fine but I couldn't put any pressure on the knee while it was bent. So I did a scan on 17 July 2019. It was indeed a meniscus tear indeed.

On some medical site I read at the time, they advised against resistance training with a meniscus tear as this could exacerbate it, so I never returned to the gym. I was an avid gym goer but became entirely sedentary. In October 2019 I wrote to my sister (who was doing her master in medicine) that I tried to squat but meniscus still didnt feel fine. She asked me if there was any pain walking or standing, I said no, only when bending the knee. So sedentary lifestyle was fine, simply couldnt persue an active lifestyle.

While I always had been very wary of the surgery, in 21 October 2020, a year and half after the injury, I wanted to return to an active lifestyle, andI let them do a partial meniscectomy.

I thought they would simply cut away a little flap, but as I woke up, I was a bit shocked to hear that "the tear was bigger than expected and we took out a bit more than half of the meniscus."

In March 2021, a friend asked me how my knee was doing and I answered "not great, medicine is a scam, in a lot of ways its considerably worse than before the surgery."

I remember more than half a year after the surgery, if I would just be standing straight (e.g. at a concert) not doing anything, my left knee would swell up internally to the extent that after 30 minutes I wouldnt be able to fully bend my knee anymore. A problem I absolutely didn't had before surgery, this made even a sedentary lifestyle difficult. Before the surgery I could still dance and walk, but now I couldn't even stand straight for too long. Furthermore, I still noticed an audible flip when bending the knee so that was still fairly awkward.

In late spring/early summer of 2021, more than half a year after the menisectomy, I decided, fuck it, I can't be sedentary for the rest of my life, I went back to the gym. I found that the leg extension and leg curl machine didnt feel awkward, the reason probably is because it allows you to do all the knee does (extension and flexion) but with little to no axial loading. So I kept on strengthening the knee this way, that's all it took for my knee to start improving, and after a while, exercises with axial loading (squats) would also feel fine.

Of course i will never be like it was before but I resolved it and I can now life an active lifestyle again. I run again, I squat again, I ski again. I may have severe arthritis by the age of 50 but oh well (I probably have it all the time but to a very small, asymptomatic degree, when you put your ear to my left knee you can actually hear a rubbing noise as i bent my knees and you dont hear it when bending the right knee.)

Now, I really do believe that I should've started doing those leg extensions and leg curls before the partial meniscectomy, and that I shouldn't have listened to that one medical site I read back in 2019 warning against exercise after tearing your meniscus.

FYI, the surgeries were done in Belgium. The doctors never prescribed any exercise. Yet the partial meniscectomy only made things worse, and it was only through exercise that the knee started improving.

Now it has become more clear than in 2020 that meniscectomy is indeed a scam.

Even before, in 2018 I've been critical of the medical industry which be way too inclined to sell some kind of medical prodedure, and was more interested in the perspective of evolutionary medicine. All medical problems have a good solution and a bad solution, the good solution almost always lies in habits (or what we would historically define as hygiene, i.e. food and exercise), now this doesn't bring revenue, and the medical industry is mainly into selling bad solutions (medical procedures that are a highly artificial stressor to the body) which may cater to people who arent eager to improve their health through habits (hygiene).

Medial meniscus: Mild intermediate signal, likely from degenerative changes within the posterior body and posterior horn of medial meniscus. No full thickness tear

Lateral meniscus: Horizontal oblique tear of the body and posterior horn of lateral meniscus.

IMPRESSION: . 1. Lateral meniscal tear. 2. Trace Baker's cyst. Small suprapatellar joint effusion. 3. Mild-to-moderate prepatellar and infrapatellar subcutaneous soft tissue fluid with internal debris, nonspecific, however may be secondary to repetitive microtrauma, patellofemoral chondrosis, or bursitis in the appropriate clinical context.

Happens two years ago mri done last month with knee intermittent clicking probably two to three times a day

My daughter just had surgery to repair torn ACL and had an LET procedure . She also had a complete detachment of the lateral meniscus root. Has anyone had this happen when they were injured? Any help on recovery and pain management will be helpful. We went through this same procedure 2.5 yrs ago on rt knee without the detachment of meniscus. Only had lateral & medial tears. This injury is more severe and I feel so bad for her

Hey! I’m 27 and I just had repair surgery for my acl and meniscus. It’s been almost 2 weeks since and I’m just worried about the healing.

I read that for acl you should start moving it after 2 weeks to prevent loss of motion but obviously with my meniscus being repaired as well I can’t bend my knee for 6 weeks.

I’m just worried about the future and getting back to normal function after this. I used to squat and lift and do stairs multiple times a week and now idk when that would be possible. I’m just nervous and don’t wanna mess up this knee. I’m worried it’ll never get back to normal.

45F | 5’1” | 91 kg
My mom has advanced knee OA + medial meniscus posterior root tear (MMPRT). MRI shows full-thickness cartilage loss in the medial compartment, Grade-IV chondromalacia, varus alignment and a Baker’s cyst.
One doctor suggested surgery, but after stopping her previous medicines, she currently has very little/no pain and doesn’t need painkillers and can walk normally.
We’re now focusing on weight loss, but she obviously can’t do high-impact/intense exercise.
Has anyone had MMPRT with OA and managed it without immediate surgery? Did weight loss/physiotherapy help? What happened long-term?

Seeing my ortho tomorrow. 2 MRI'S and an xray show grade 4 osteoarthritis and torn medial meniscus. I get along fine most days but when I irrirate it (run 1 minute, twist the wrong way) I limp for 2 weeks with sharp pain at the lower inside part of my knee. When this happens it really impacts my quality of life as I usually walk a lot for exercise and keeping happy.

I am not very excited about getting my meniscus fixed this year and then getting a new knee in 2 to 3 years due to the arthritis (which has been around for a very long time).

Anyone been through this, with two separate issues? Any advice?