has anyone here ever had an injury like this?
when i was in high school i played softball, i was a pitcher. 3 years ago I was playing a game when a girl hit a ball right back at me, hit my knee, and took me out (the ball on my knee made the most gruesome noise ever). Originally x-rays didnt' show anything so I just figured I would get better over time - wrong. I ended up losing my scholarships for swimming because I could no longer swim breast stroke because my knee hurt so much. A year later the dr's did another x-ray because it hurt so much still, this time they found a shadow. MRI was done, and they found that i had torn my miniscus (sp?) It wasn't torn completly they said, they told me I had about a milimeter left and that before I could get surgery I would need to tear it completly. So here I am three years later, and I wake up all the time because my knee hurts so bad, I also figure skate still, and owww it just hurts so bad all the time now a days, no matter what I'm doing...so I think it's torn all the way now....I'm going to go to my dr when I move home for the summer in a month, however has anyone had surgery for a torn miniscus?? How does recovery go? How long? Did you feel stronger after it, or just a waste of time? (one of the guys I skate with had a similar surgery done and he still is in as much pain as before, he had qualified for nationals last year and now he is barely able to jump)
thanks!



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