Knee Arthroscopy (after surgery) question?

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Knee Arthroscopy (after surgery) question?
okay uh I had knee arthroscopy may 1st it went well. But when I stand on it long or walk a longing distance the..... I guess the muscles gets all tensed up and my knee throbs, it'll disappear if I rest it for a while. But I am wondering when it will if it will ever fully heal and if so how long? I'm guessing long. But about how long how many months or a year?

Umm hard for me to explain this, not very good at explaining. Best to start from the beginning, well i started getting sharp painful stings in my knee, when ever I walked it had occasionally and it was so painful that I wanted to cry, but it didn’t ever last that long, about a minute to two at the most. Then when I got it examined I found out that my meniscus was causing the problem, instead on them being both the shape of C's one was a D so what they did was go in and shave the D down to make it a C. So can anyone help me out here? I'd really appreciate it. I hope that explanation is alright.

Answer 1

I have read up about arthroscopic surgery in the past and found that it takes about 6-8 weeks to fully recover from the surgery.

It may take a bit longer depending on how much work was done (I've not had arthroscopic surgery but I've had a sister procedure called laparoscopy which can sometimes take longer to recover from depending on the type of surgery being done).

I would recommend checking with your doctor as well to see what they say.

Answer 2

I've had both of my knees operated on due to torn meniscus. It only took me about 3-4 months to completely heal to where I didn't have any more issues. Still to this day, my right knee clicks and pops but its nothing too terribly bad. If you're still having those kinds of issues after 7 months, I would probably call your orthopedist and tell him/her what you're experiencing just to make sure. Good luck!