Just got surgery on my knee today

Today I received surgery on my knee, because of a torn meniscus, surgery was fast, and so far recovery is painless, 45 minutes after I got out of surgery I was allowed to put pressure on my knee. Since I went for 2 years with a tear in my meniscus, the Dr. wasn't able to repair it but they cleared out all the damaged cartilage. Unfortunately I have to stay away from exercising for a few weeks, surprisingly the Dr. said I will be able to have full movement and everything in under 2 months and back to my normal activities; so I'm happy about that.

I thought I should post this maybe to get some questions popping if anyone has any, or if anyone has had surgery on their knee and want to post their experience; because I know mine was great, I hopped into the surgery room at 2 and was out of the hospital by 4.

Hi kbryk,

Glad to hear it went well. That is going to be a looooong 2 weeks, though!!

cheers,

George.

kbryk, I live in Illinois too, but it takes 1-2hr drive from my place to Chicago. You live in uptown or downtown Chicago? Glad to hear you'll be able to have full movement

Thanks guys, and I'm still working core and lots of push ups . And Free Man, I live in the Western Suburbs, about 20/30 minute drive to the city.

Hope you have a speedy recovery!

Hello, and glad to hear that your surgery went well. I also had knee surgery earlier in April. My ailment was medial synoval plica syndrome, which basically means that some cartilage in my knee was inflammed. They did an arthroscopy, and I was out of surgery within a half hour. For about the last year there had been a dull and sometimes intense pain originating on the inside of my right knee. After much physical therapy I elected to have the surgery to remove the damaged tissue. I was able to walk on it the next day, as the first day had me bed-ridden with nausea.

I'm still doing physical therapy, and hopefully I will be able to (slowly) return to things like running, jumping, and squatting within a month or so.