
Originally Posted by
ncognico
Yo dude:
Had a similar situation to yours. Cyclops lesion removed ~ 8 mo. post acl/mcl recon. I had full extension just had loud crepitus on active extension.
Compared to my 2 prev. knee surgeries (acl w/pattellar graft and acl/mcl with patellar and hammy grafts, respectively) the this one was ridiculously easy. Too easy in fact that I overdid afterwards. When I woke up the nurse asked how does it feel? I flexed and felt fine. Stood up and felt fine. Then walked around and felt fine. Then blood started to soak through the dressings so I laid back down. Two weeks later I was feeling good so I went out partying on halloween. All was fine but that flipped some some sort of inflammation switch and my knee was prone to swelling up a lot afterwards. At 5 weeks I tried going for a long tandem snomo ride and doing some b-c boarding. Total disaster swelling wise and setback again. But was able to skin up/ride down 2k+ feet a few days later.
Fully recovered in 2 weeks, no way. The doc said 4-6 for me. really took more like 8. But in some ways I think the surgery definitely set me back a bit. So if you do it its really no big deal but take it easy, do all your pt and icing, don't overdo it, and ease back into full activity afterwards.
Hope that helps. Feel free to PM me if you have more questions.
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