Knee popped 3 times quickly

[roycar]

it's quite possibe to damage cartilage in the manner which you described. how are you doing now?

how did the knee react in the hours and days following injury?
did it swell quickly or overnight or not at all?
do you have full range of movement, equal to the unaffected leg?
aside from the giving way you described, has there been any locking or any more clicking?

[MMA1980]

i have the full range of motion, just a bit stiffer. I just cant move the knee side to side. where you can feel the lateral ligament, on my effected leg it just feels a little mushy, not hard thin ligament like on my good leg. Also, the bottom of my thigh bone right by the joint hurts to touch.
no giving away, if i go on it wrongly i think it is my reaction to kind of tumble to take the weight off it.
straight after the injury, the knee just felt unstable, lose, no swelling until the day after and even that was very minor as it was just a little by the ligament area. half hour after the injury it started to ache and feel even more unstable.
the last couple days it has felt a bit better although today it feels stiff and a bit painful, nothing major though. i dont get any locking or clicking at all, just aching and stiffness and bad pain if my leg goes sideways (ie the knee goes outwards)

cheers

[roycar]

from that it sounds like a lateral collateral ligament tear. it sounds like a moderate to bad tear, i'd recommend you go see someone experienced. management can get tricky if you dont approach it properly.