Graft failure following ACL reconstruction

[neurospast]

Hello, allthough I have had not any surgery as so on my knee I would like to respond and to use the information you provide. Prior to surgery stable knee but pain. After surgery fine until you went flying over the wet floor re injuring the initial ligament.
You reinjured your ACL thus your back to square 1. I must say you have been extremely unlucky on this one! Surgery in principle does repair and damage at the same time. An ACL is after reconstruction up to scratch after about a year; considering the ligament itself and the completion of the rehab. Before that the chance of a re occurance of damage is much higher (on purpose I write a year just to stay in the clear).
You have to understand when you chose not to do the surgery you will have an unstable knee which easily damages more the other structures in the knee and causing early wear and tear and at the other hand surgery and repair which will protect (hopefully) the other structures in the knee and prevent Osteo arthritis (but the surgery will cause in itself early Osteo arthritis. A knee replacement which could follow in let say 20 years can be redone (at this moment in time 2 times) a knee replacement holds if you are slim 15 years.
I think you ought to make a decision on facts not on other people's experiences because everyone knows someone whose aunty had a hip replacement which went wrong (actually hip replacements have a succes rate of +95%).
The 2nd time around for the same surgery will be hard work, you might need a good knee brace to start off with until a proper healing and wining yourself off the brace. using the brace in sport activities. If you choose not to have surgery you ought to a rehab as long as with and you definetily need a brace to avoid further surgery.
To make things worse; a goalkeeper of the Dutch national football team lacked all stabilising structures at the knee, still he was the goalkeeper...
I have worked with patients who needed another ops. they were fine after extended rehab.
For you; I wish you all the best.