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Went hiking too soon?

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mer6601
mer6601

I tore my lateral meniscus pretty badly when I was pregnant last year. It was a whole year before I finally saw a doctor and had an MRI revealing the multiple jagged tears. I had surgery on March 7th, only removal of the torn part (no stitches). My recovery was slow and I had a lot of swelling but I'm in fairly good health and normal weight. I did physical therapy religiously. After surgery, even though I was still working on range of motion and strength a lot, the pain was gone! But then a month after surgery my husband and I and our friends had the brilliant idea to go on a 3 mile hike! It felt awesome during, but the last month ever since it has been sore. I had two cysts before, are they flaring up? I had some arthritis too, could it be that? Will it ever go away? I feel the pain in the meniscus area but it doesn't feel like I re-tore it or anything, it's kind of getting worse too. I'm so frustrated because I went a whole year with the tear and now it feels like I'm back to square one when I really thought it was fixed! Anyone overdo it after arthroscopy, but then it healed up ok?

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  • larry43899
    larry43899 mer6601

    Posted

    Mmmm sorry I haven't got anything positive to add....

    I had my op in October 2014, very little pain or swelling, started walking straight away.I tried running after 3 weeks which didn't go too badly.

    The Sunday before I went back to work after a month, I went for an 8 mile walk, the middle bit being very uneven and my knee started feeling sore so the walk home was quite painful.

    After that it went downhill as far as my knee is concerned.

    It may be my own fault as my physio had said take my time and do the exies.

    At the present I can still walk 6-8 miles and my knee gives me less grief if I do no exiles.

    Cycling also helps.

    If I have it done again, I'll do as I'm told

    Good lunch k

  • tere52583
    tere52583 mer6601

    Posted

    Arthritis is a very tricky puppy! I had a medial meniscus scope and too was pain free and back to normal very quickly.  However, within a couple of years knee pain very consistent regardless of activity level. They did the synvisc injection which put me into excruciating pain for weeks.  Told me then I'd be looking at partial knee replacement, as nothing can repair cartilage damage due to arthritis.  I think we expect the arthritis to progress very slowly, but at times it doesn't.
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