Who has had knee issues and how did it end for you ? This past fall I really struggled just to run 60 coyote sets. The up and down just killed my right knee. I’m at the point now I can hardly walk on my right leg. Went to my doctor and he referred me to a specialist. Haven’t seen him yet.

6 meniscus surgeries. 3 on each knee. Both knees required total knee replacements. 2 months postop now on the second one. 1st one was awesome. 1 year it was almost 100% this second knee isn't so good. I waited to long to get it replaced. It's going to take longer to recover because i started in a deep hole.

Do the pt before and after surgery. Ice is a must. Good luck

Have had multiple steroid shots in each knee and fluid withdrew from each several times. The last couple shots didn't help much. Had MRI of left knee, then doc went in and cleaned the ragged meniscus best he could and changed the oil in that knee joint. I've never injured my knees. Mine is just wear and tear....I'm 62 this year.

Doc says I need total replacement of both but that I should put it off as long as I can stand it. I'm not bone on bone yet in either knee. I cannot imagine the pain when that happens....compared to my pain now.

I hobble around everyday...everywhere I go. I have to go down steps sideways. I have to go up steps one at a time. Any sideways torque on either knee is excruciating pain. After being active and then sitting for a while...when I try to stand it is a pitiful sight. Takes me a minute to take a step.

I take 800 mg of ibuprofen but not every day. It does help.

Treatment of meniscus injuries today is way different than it was when I tore my medial meniscus back in the 70s in my mid 30s. Spent my first 3 nights in a hospital when they removed about 80% of mine. What was left has worn out. I have been bone on bone for several years but the pain has been manageable so I have not gone the knee replacement route yet.

I also believe I had at least a partial tear of my ACL when I tore the meniscus but the x-rays did not show that. I had stability issues for many years and was eventually diagnosed with a torn ACL and had surgery to repair that. The surgeon could not even tell that I ever had an ACL when he went in to fix it. That surgery fixed the stability problem.

To the OP, get checked out. The imagining techniques (MRI) are much better now and the arthroscopic surgery can fix a lot of issues. I have only my experience and no medical training but it sounds like you probably have loose chunks floating around in your joint keeping it inflamed and painful. You could also have ligament damage causing stability issues as well. .

I had a half inch tear in my left knee. It had gotten so bad I could hardly walk. I limped in the hospital for my surgery and walked out on a Friday. I went back to work on Monday. I haven't had any issues since.

I started having pain near my patella tendon this past January after barely leaving the house that particular day, got so bad I could barely bend it the next day. I religiously iced and babied it for 10 days and it was getting “better” and one day I was walking and felt a sort of slight pop in there like something moved or shifted and 10 minutes later I was walking normal, could run again, etc. Was great for about a good month and I woke up one morning to a sore knee again but in a slightly different spot (at the bottom of patella rather than side). Did the brakes on my car that day and had to use a pad to kneel with that knee but by the next morning it HURT and I could barely move it and it was so swelled up. I fought it for about a week and went to doctor and they thought I had an inflamed bursa sac.

Fast forward bit, I’ve been fighting this for over 3 months and I’m about 2 months into PT for “patellar tendinopathy” (or so we think) and the knee is still swelled up, I can’t run at all much less walk up steps normal, and it’s really frustrating. I’ve had a lot of muscle loss in my quads due to lack of use in that leg and my patella had unlearned engaging on its own so been doing a lot of exercises to combat that. I seem to have made progress but the instability and sudden give outs are still there and I’m Not gaining noticeable muscle back at any good rate (granted my PT warned me this would be a long road to recovery). I did have a similar feeling and flare up with pain in this same spot in 2018 that magically disappeared after about 3 weeks and historically this is my “good knee” unlike my other that had football injuries.

I’ve since decided if I’m not a lot better by the end of July I’m going to see an orthopedic specialist and probably get MRI or whatever. I can’t run rely to the OPs frustrations as I fear I may need a new knee but also think I might just have something floating around in there that has caused most of this. I managed to hobble around and catch about 80 beaver this spring and that was much more of a shore than it usually would be with not being able to kneel on my right knee and the walking instability. Somewhere toward the end of beaver season it was borderline getting better and I was borderline running through a swamp and tweeted it slightly which I know was not smart (but it was feeing “better”!). Good luck and Happy trapping! ScottW

Stationary bike is your friend. Tore my meniscus 10 years ago. Surgeon had me riding a stationary bike to build up the other one with no impact. In about a month the bad one stopped hurting. He said that was the only ligament that would are could repair itself. Now i still have pain if i squat much. But because of back i do alot of that.
good luck and remember no 2 people's situation is the same.

I fell in a boat and damaged some cartilage in my knee. A surgeon removed it but my knee was not protected and I soon had to have it replaced.

Tore my left meniscus in January of 13 . Hobbled around on it until July when a friend called me and said go to Dr Hawke. The guy was tremendous even at 65 years old and have had no issues since . After surgery he asked if it hurt when I walked and I said every step and he proceeded to tell me the meniscus was folded and locked in the knee joint . He said you want physical therapy I said know he said a country guy wouldn’t and have a nice life