Saw my Dr two week ago for checkup and addressed my knee problems. She referred me to a bone and joint specialist who I'm going to see today. Her prediction is that his diagnosis may be a torn cartilage in my knee. She believes it's in the cartilage between my leg bones and not the part under my knee cap.
Her prediction is that it won't heal since it's been giving me trouble since early this spring when I started riding bike. She suggested that I may end up having arthroscopic surgery to shave off the tear before it creates any bone spurs or other problems.
My questions are this
I plan to ask the Dr the same questions. Also if you have any suggestions for things I can/should ask him please let me know.)
I've heard from more than one person that you're knee never quite goes back to it's previous flexibility or strength. How likely is that?
Also I do day care in my home and plan to move in the next month. I obviously would postpone surgery until we had completed the move. My question is this - How long are you generally off your feet with this type of surgery? Would it be feasible for me to, say, have the surgery on a Friday and expect to take care of 2-3 kids (one would be a 4 mo old) by the following Monday? or should I give myself more time off?
Any other input would be helpful. How necessary is the possible surgery? I know my Dad had torn cartilage under his kneecap, let it go, and developed some nasty bone spurs that damaged the cartilage even more. I don't want to wait too long if surgery is needed but I also don't want to have surgery if this isn't going to cause me a lot of trouble in the future and the surgery will only weaken my knee.