Hi everyone,
I underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in March 2021 to address outer knee pain that I'd been having for over a decade. I injured my knee as a teenager kicking a heavy bag which resulted in a loss a cartilage and loose body that I just lived with for a long time. My first knee surgery was in 2017 and all they pretty did then was remove a massive loose body that was floating around in my knee joint. Fast forward to 2021 and I can't live with the pain anymore so I schedule an appointment with my surgeon and he determines from my mri that I have a full thickness injury to my lateral femoral condyle and a subchondral cyst. I point out to him the pain that I'm having pain all the way from my knee to my ankle and he just disregards it as a symptom of the issues in my knee and never really addresses it. Here schedules me for a microfracture surgery shortly after that. He went ahead and did the microfracture on the lateral femoral condyle and told me that I could start walking sooner than other patients because my case was less severe.
I waited a year before scheduling another appointment to find out why I was still having pain. I read that it can take up to that long for pain to subside after surgery. The thing is that the knee pain is as bad as it's ever been and the pain that shoots up the entire side if my leg is even worse. I went to my ortho back in January to see what was wrong and he though it could be sciatica but an mri showed that wasn't the issue. I have a burning pain from from my thigh all the way down to my ankle. Sometimes the ankle pain can be worse than the knee pain, but I've never had any obvious injury to my ankle. What can this be? Can these just be secondary symptoms of my knee issues? Maybe I have a pinched nerve somewhere?
Btw, can I have a mod contact me to change my username?
I underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in March 2021 to address outer knee pain that I'd been having for over a decade. I injured my knee as a teenager kicking a heavy bag which resulted in a loss a cartilage and loose body that I just lived with for a long time. My first knee surgery was in 2017 and all they pretty did then was remove a massive loose body that was floating around in my knee joint. Fast forward to 2021 and I can't live with the pain anymore so I schedule an appointment with my surgeon and he determines from my mri that I have a full thickness injury to my lateral femoral condyle and a subchondral cyst. I point out to him the pain that I'm having pain all the way from my knee to my ankle and he just disregards it as a symptom of the issues in my knee and never really addresses it. Here schedules me for a microfracture surgery shortly after that. He went ahead and did the microfracture on the lateral femoral condyle and told me that I could start walking sooner than other patients because my case was less severe.
I waited a year before scheduling another appointment to find out why I was still having pain. I read that it can take up to that long for pain to subside after surgery. The thing is that the knee pain is as bad as it's ever been and the pain that shoots up the entire side if my leg is even worse. I went to my ortho back in January to see what was wrong and he though it could be sciatica but an mri showed that wasn't the issue. I have a burning pain from from my thigh all the way down to my ankle. Sometimes the ankle pain can be worse than the knee pain, but I've never had any obvious injury to my ankle. What can this be? Can these just be secondary symptoms of my knee issues? Maybe I have a pinched nerve somewhere?
Btw, can I have a mod contact me to change my username?