... on the interior of the damaged knee, suggesting that my medial meniscal repair has failed. I haven't come back too soon, staying with my P.T. schedule and taking it easy. I had been right on schedule before this set-back, with range of motion and strengthening (I was feeling great). Now, I'm worried that the stitches have torn in my medial meniscus repair and I will need another athroscopic knee surgery. It felt a little off, worse than the previous two weeks or so, after P.T. yesterday (first time doing lunges, and I'm 6'5, 230 lbs, could that have played a role?). I'm planning on giving it until the end of the weekend before I schedule an ortho. appt. and probably another MRI. I'm only 18, and the recovery shouldn't be as bad as the first time around, but it would still be a costly set-back. Does anyone have any further insight?
2007-02-03 09:06:41 · 2 answers · asked by Al 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Sounds like you're doing everything you can, but do call and see the doctor soon to have it evaluated.
2007-02-03 09:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is sounds like you've got a pretty good handle on this. Except it wouldn't be the stitches that failed - I'm fairly certain that if stitches were used internally they would have dissolved by now. It's the healed tissue that would have failed.
It's possible that you didn't injure anything, could just be sore from doing a new exercise and using muscles you haven't for more than a month.
2007-02-03 09:13:27 · answer #2 · answered by UNITool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋