cheers for the extra links Dej!
Try googling IBT stretch. I had knee problems when I switched cleats and this really helped.
Are you clipping in or using straps?
Edit: probably should of looked through the thread first haha
But yeah +1 on Ibt stretch.
TWO NEW KNEE SURGERIES COMING UP!
both L/R have a torn meniscus, the second time for my left
boooooo
oh mannnnn, bummerrrrrrrr.
Looking like I might need surgery for a torn meniscus too. Will prob find out after scans this week. Best of luck with yours JimmyJ.
Did the injury about 3 weeks ago and just doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Very frustrating, but from what I hear the recovery time from surgery is pretty quick, sometimes just a couple of weeks.
Anybody have any experience going on waitlists for this type of surgery? If that’s what it does require and I need to wait months and months, it’s gonna suuuuuuck.
I waited about a year just to speak to a surgeon about a knee recon back in 2012 or so. had he wanted to operate, likely would’ve been that again before surgery.
my advice, play up how much it’s hurting you, affecting your sleep, way of life, daily activity & that may get you seen sooner.
I went private, was 12 days from gp appointment to going under the knife. cost a bit more though 
surgeon was Eden Raleigh if you needed a recommendation to go on.
Cheers Rolly.
Yeah I was definitely considering letting on that it’s giving me more trouble than it actually is if that’ll get me further up a waiting list. I mean, it’s pretty fucked that I can’t ride, skate or work properly, but at the same time it’s not as though I’m experiencing constant extreme pain. I can walk, that’s about it though. I guess it’s more like a 7 on the pain scale when I attempt normal activities, and I’m in constant discomfort as opposed to acute pain.
And yeah, if I opted to go private, I’d need to borrow coin from my olds or something. It’s potentially an option though.
Guess I’ll just get the scans done this week and go from there.
What was it you did again? An ACL? A year seems like ages to live with an injury of that nature, that must’ve been horrible.
after living with an undiagnosed torn ACL for about 9 years, it kinda became the new normal. the lack of stability that caused led to heaps of cartilage damage, which after yet another snow/skateboard stack, eventually led to daily discomfort & an inability to go hiking/long rides etc without pain.
irony is, it used to give way on me all the time, and I likely would’ve got it sorted years earlier had I not started cycling, but cycling actually delayed it by building all the supporting muscles around the knee.
I ended up having my left one done (second time in three years) in October and it was going great guns until one day i tried to avoid stepping on a bunny we were bunny-sitting and it went ouch.
Have gone back for more MRIs and the doc tells me there’s nothing to be done. A whole bunch of scar tissue and inflammation in the left knee and I can just live with it and manage it the best I can.
On the right it turns out to be some grooving/degradation of the cartilage above the tibia…which is pissing off the knee causing inflammation. Again, nothing to be done.
So sore knees for life!
@argument - Way to do it asap. Good for you being proactive. I wish I was more and avoided the scar tissue buildup.
Both surgeries I had were easy and the pain from the op was gone in 7-10 days. 6 weeks of rehab and I felt great after. It was remarkable to not have pain.
Just try not to do it again!
(also, ice, rest, rehab…all the boring stuff really helps)
I’m kinda the same jimmy, though I’ve just had the one recon. despite the recon & a clean up, sometimes things just get caught somewhere painful in the joint & I just have to deal with the pain until whatever’s irritating the joint shifts somewhere less disruptive.
agreed on the being proactive bit too, my surgeon literally said to me “this is one of those time machine moments where you’d go back & have this fixed when it first happened.” I made a lot of very incorrect assumptions about the damage I’d done falling on an already very fragile knee.
surgeon reckons I’ll need a full knee replacement in the next decade or two, physio tells me they’ll be a less drastic solution by then. I hope my physio is right!!
Yeah thanks for the tips.
I had already considered some of the stuff Jimmy mentioned re: bad knees for life. In a way I actually hope I DO need surgery, as the recovery seems pretty straightforward. Obviously there’s the financial burden of private, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Seems a better option than trying to rehab something that’s so inflamed and shows no signs of improving.
What sort of cost is ballpark for this sort of thing if private?
from memory mine was about $1500 or so out of pocket. Medibank private covered about 3.5k
Ouch.
I don’t have private cover. Now is definitely one of those times I wish I did.
I was very lucky in that my bday is the same date as the day you’re meant to get hospital cover to avoid the additional loading (June 30). I was confused about what year I needed to start it from, so called to enquire. she was confused too. I ended up getting it & later discovered I started a year earlier than I needed to. did my knee snowboarding at the start of my USA trip, got home 6 months later, had the surgery 6 weeks after my one year waiting period had finished.
so I guess you add the monthly cost that I didn’t need to be paying, and it was more like $2400 out of pocket
Haha I can’t tell if that’s good luck or bad luck. Bit of both I guess.
Just about to get my MRI now.
Complex left lateral meniscus tear, chondromalacia, bursitits and mild osteo-arthritis.
Dear oh dear.
chondromalacia? wassat?
what’s the plan now then?
Ouch. Hang in there. I’m eight weeks post microfracture and bone graft surgery on the bottom of my femur. Am weight bearing a fair bit now after six weeks of being couch-bound, can even go without crutches for a few steps, and can bend my leg enough to do some light pedalling on the trainer. Doing about an hour-and-a-half of physio exercises each day, but these are barely more than just flexing my quad. Patience is my master this year.
As far as I know it’s inflammation of the cartilage behind the patella, which probably started when I broke it years ago. Explains why ever since then, my left kneecap has been sensitive, kind of like it’s always mildly bruised.
Next step is go see the surgeon I’ve been referred to, then figure out how to come up with money for what will no doubt be an expensive quote.
Obviously there’s always public, but from what people in the know tell me, it’s rare to wait less than a year for meniscal surgery. Apparently some people wait closer to two. If I go down that road, I’ll be living a miserable sedentary life, not to mention the further damage I might cause by getting around for ages with torn cartilage
Looks like I’ll go under the knife rather soon. Will cost approx. $5000. I’ll get a bit back because I’ve got a health care card (full time student), possibly up to $1000ish.
Sucks how fraught with ambiguity the whole thing is. He reckons that because of all the stuff going on with my previously injured patella, my symptoms may actually stem from that and not my meniscus, which obvs means meniscus surgery is going to be a gamble. He’s told me that almost everyone who does a meniscal injury feels it ‘go’. Because I didn’t, there’s a chance that it’s been torn for years and that something else has caused me all the sudden issues. If this proves to be the case, meniscal surgery may end up being an exercise in pissing $5k against a wall.