3 posts tagged “meniscus”

I am in a LOT of pain. Surprisingly...

lol...

However I am in good spirits and have been on and off sleeping all day long.

I will write more when I am not so dizzy.

Arthoscopic Setup

Regarding my absolutely awesome knee problem, I have surgery next Wednesday the 28th. Not sure of the time at the moment, but it will be in the morning.

The doctor looked over my MRI results and confirmed that it is indeed a torn meniscus. In fact he had a very complex medical term for it. He said "It is a very large tear".

So they will drill three holes into my knee and place a scope in one and the implements of torture into the other two. The work they have to do is, as he explained it, very much like trimming a cuticle.

He will clip away the damaged part and they will then smooth out and arrange the cartilage so that it once more does the job of providing a cushion between my tibia and femur.

The recoup time is almost exactly what I was reading about and so I will be able to remove bandages on that Friday after and I will be able to put weight on my leg again.

But for those two and a half days?

Whoohooo XBox360 time....

I am hoping that I can get some photos of the surgery taking place. It would rule if I had a pic of the scope in my leg.

What is going on with your knee? It appears that I have a torn meniscus.

Knee diagram

What the snot is that? Well, it is a common knee problem regarding a very very fine layer of cartilage and I have somehow torn it. It resides between the tibia and the femur and it basically allows the bones to glide against each other.

So now what? Welp, first thing is that I get an MRI done today. Once we know for sure then I go back to the doctor and we plan the next step.

What exactly is the next step? They do something called Arthoscopic knee surgery. Which they basically drill a few holes into my knee the size of a small pencil and in one of these holes they insert a camera and in the other two they insert the tools to perform what is known as a partial meniscectomy where they then remove the torn cartilage from my knee.

Arthoscopic Setup

Youch, this all sounds pretty painful for you MainMor, what is the recovery time like? It looks like it is going to be fairly simple actually. I may be on crutches for a few days, but then after about 48 hours I can walk around. Total recovery time is really about 4-6 weeks.

You are going to be off work for a few days I bet. Yes, I will be.

So what will you do? Hey, I am going to sit around and play my XBox. 'Call of Duty IV' will be beckoning me.

Torn meniscus