unusual knee pain

[zanderman1985]

Hey there, Just the results from the mri and is not that great, I think, from what the surgoen said, I have a horizontal tear in my cartilege which is creating a valve that once synovial fluid goes down can't come back up and so creates a lump on the other side.

He also said that to fix it he'll have to remove cartilege and that 25 to 30 percent of people, 10 - 15 year later will have knee pain or crunching - he said it was for unknown reasons but I though it was sort of obvious.

has anyone else had this done? and can they post their experiences of having this op?


kind regards
alex

[roycar]

i've not heard of that before. interesting. its great to see that you are getting somewhere with regard getting a solution to your problem.

any surgery that involves your knee cartilage will more than likely speed up the development of osteoarthritis in the knee. to what extent? hard to say. everyones different. after both of my knee surgeries where i had my acl replaced, medial cartilage repaired and lateral cartilage shaved, i've come to accept that i'l have degenerative changes come on me earlier than they would have otherwise. its about weighing up the pro's and cons. for me, i had to have the surgery to be able to function properly without pain and swelling and return to some form of sport. surgical approaches to cartilage are evolving all the time so hopefully when i don have problems down the road it'l be a nice easy job to sort it all out.

[zanderman1985]

Well the surgeon said that he would have to see how bad the inner structures were before doing anything, but he says he'll definately have to remove some cartilage