Note to anyone that’s sent their story to us
I realized today that all the emails from the “tell us your story” form were getting caught in my spam filter! And here I thought nobody cared. I’ll be getting back to all of you in due time, sorry it’s taken me so long! Look for some new posts from some of the awesome people that have mailed us to tell us about their knees!
Greetings, I sent my story earlier in the “tell your story” post area. Summary, love this site, injured skiing Feb 16, surgery scheduled for March 17. Still undecided re: graft choice though leaning allograft “today”! Very active older mom- 48. No prior injuries. Attending pre-hab and keeping my fingers crossed!
Would love to correspond, have found this site the most helpful so far.
PS I am an RN and do medical malpractice defense work.. not sure if that helps or hurts at this point!
Help me please…! Tore my ACL playing football (soccer). Dec 2007 went under the knife. Picture perfect op. Doc delighted. Graft bang-on solid. However, had a swelling that never really fully disappeared and when i started to exercise after physio knee came up like a balloon. Had it drained twice. Cortisone. Nothing. Doc and physio baffled. Every time I start to exercise anything above walking up it comes. Very very depressing. No one knows what is wrong. No meniscal damage, no cartilage damage. MRIs are perfect and yet something is deeply irritated in my knee and screams whenever I even get close to any exertion. Impossible to go skiing, running, biking, footy, all the things I used to do. Any one else had a similar experience?
Wow. That is intense reaction to acl replacement surgery. Fluid being drained must get the pressure off. Do you get Balkers cycts?
I do feel your pain. I had allograft and eight-weeks post of have too much lateral tibia pressure front-to-back with hamstring jerked injury pain from waking. Feels like my tibia is in wrong place because my left foot arch is flattening. Much tibia head pain on running.
Doctor called it settling.. But I am not reassured due to foot changes.
Ideas?