Fell down yesterday and probably tore my meniscus in left leg.

[iris]

Nope

Thanks.
Good for you

 

[FrenchToastKing]

Hello guys.
I took the MRI and thankfully I did not sustain any damage to the meniscus.
I did sprain my ACL though.

Doc says bed rest for 1 week. No gym for 3 weeks and no leg days for 6 months

 

[readalot]

Hello guys.
I took the MRI and thankfully I did not sustain any damage to the meniscus.
I did sprain my ACL though.

Doc says bed rest for 1 week. No gym for 3 weeks and no leg days for 6 months

Great news. Recover well Sir! Thanks for update.

 

[FrenchToastKing]

Great news. Recover well Sir! Thanks for update.

Thank you for your insight

 

[iris]

Thank you for your insight

You see....
All the online stress, yesterday, lol.
Yay.
Take care

 

[readalot]

Thank you for your insight

You got some great feedback from others. I did almost nothing. So glad you will be fine. Awesome news!

 

[FrenchToastKing]

Training wise I'm planning on running a chest/back specialization program from RP, once I get back in the gym.

 

[bigMoJo]

Hello guys.
I took the MRI and thankfully I did not sustain any damage to the meniscus.
I did sprain my ACL though.

Doc says bed rest for 1 week. No gym for 3 weeks and no leg days for 6 months

Brother,

That is "winning lotto" type news... I'm very happy for you!

It makes more sense—the way you stepped forward on the knee—it would affect the ACL. Just wondering why the McMurray was mis-diagnosed... but that's what the MRI is for. Money well spent, insured or OOP.

Take care of that ACL. Don't rush back in to train on it until it's fully healed. Then, ease back into it slow. You may get some quad atrophy (very little) from the injury, but your doc may have already prescribed a protocol to minimize that. I'll take short term atrophy over the alternative all day.

Let us know if you run into any snags, or if you just want to come back and brag how well its healed.

 

[FrenchToastKing]

Let us know if you run into any snags

Sure will !
In the meantime, I'll try to control my eating while sitting on my ass all day on the couch.

Honestly I'm surprised about the McMurrey test too. I can't even flex my knee enough to sit on the water closet or pull up some pants

 

[Andrew Androgen]

I've had multiple meniscus tears on both knees, multiple surgeries, ACL reconstruction on both, and countless other injuries to the knee(s). I know numerous others that have had the same or more.

If your doctor did a McMurray Test on your knee, that should have established a "tear." Sending you for an MRI is great so you see the extent, large or small.

The meniscus can tear in many different ways. Usually–and from what it sounds like in your case—they are small tears. Even a tear of a few millileters can cause serious pain and immense swelling. Stay off of it for now and just be careful when you step... your knee is weak and you don't want to make things worse.

If you need surgery—and, there's good chance you do—it's definitely going to be arthroscopic (unless you shredded it—and, you didn't shred it). "Suturing," as mentioned in previous post, could be a possiblity, but these "tears" more so occur on the edge of the meniscus. Likely, there is a small couple millimeter tear that will need to be "shaved." The remainder of your meniscus will remain and work like normal. The second time I tore my right meniscus, it was shredded, like "bear-clawed," and was removed completely instead of "sutured." I still f-in do heavy legs today.

Arthroscopic surgery is outpatient... you go in morning, come out afternoon. If you take therapy seriously (you will), you can recover from it within 2 to 4 weeks. These types of injuries are more of a pain in the ass than something life altering.

During therapy, your therapist will work on regaining "range of motion" and re-strengthening your ligaments/tendons (i.e. patellar tendon) and muscles (your quadricep will atrophy from the arthroscope— don't worry, comes back fast). After your therapy period, you're knee and leg will still be a little weak... that's when you ease into training again.

If you give me more info about what happened, what your doctor said, how you fell/twisted your knee, and where you felt/feel the pain, I can tell you more

Can the medial meniscus tear as a result of doing pistol squats?

 

[bigMoJo]

Can the medial meniscus tear as a result of doing pistol squats?

Yes, it's possible. You'd be surprised... any movement that causes a twist, pull, squeeze, etc. of the knee joint could potentially precipitate a tear.

The pistol squat is a rather "safe" movement though. There shouldn't be enough pressure on the knee, if just using body-weight, to cause a tear. Although, as I eluded above, "anything is possible."

If you're having some sort of swelling and/or pain, just take a short break and get it checked by an orthopedic doctor. Even if it's not a tear, having it looked at now can help avoid a much more serious problem developing (sprain vs tear).

 

[AlexDavis43]

If you're having some sort of swelling and/or pain, just take a short break and get it checked by an orthopedic doctor. Even if it's not a tear, having it looked at now can help avoid a much more serious problem developing (sprain vs tear).

This is good advice. A lot of people here are very adverse to seeing actual doctors. Or looking for excuses not to.

 

[Red Bastard]

I tore my right lateral meniscus in my mid 40’s.
Kneeling almost guaranteed that it would lock up and require a kick to extend my leg.
Constant pain. Toughed it out for months, like an idiot, not really knowing what it was.

After finally getting an MRI, my MD highly recommended surgery.
After reading about complications and recovery time, I went the peptide route.

It was nothing short of miraculous.

BPC-157 350mcg twice a day.
TB-500 at 5mg per week with 2 doses in the first week.
At 10 weeks I tapered down for 3 more weeks.
By that time, I would have been hard pressed to remember which knee it was.

 

[JuiceStick]

Anyone have experience with treating arthritis with peptides? 6 meniscus repairs, 5 of which required ACL replacements left my knees in less than perfect shape.

 

[Red Bastard]

Anyone have experience with treating arthritis with peptides? 6 meniscus repairs, 5 of which required ACL replacements left my knees in less than perfect shape.

My sister (57 years old) has pretty bad arthritis in her hands.
I’ve been doing a lot of “research” to see if there’s a peptide solution for her.
So far, I haven’t seen anything that jumps out at me as a great solution.
But, don’t stop looking for answers!

 

[ThinBulk]

I tore my right lateral meniscus in my mid 40’s.
Kneeling almost guaranteed that it would lock up and require a kick to extend my leg.
Constant pain. Toughed it out for months, like an idiot, not really knowing what it was.

After finally getting an MRI, my MD highly recommended surgery.
After reading about complications and recovery time, I went the peptide route.

It was nothing short of miraculous.

BPC-157 350mcg twice a day.
TB-500 at 5mg per week with 2 doses in the first week.
At 10 weeks I tapered down for 3 more weeks.
By that time, I would have been hard pressed to remember which knee it was.

For people looking for meniscus advise, its nice to hear the non surgical peptide approach.

I had a meniscus tear back when I was 21. Sports injury. This is back when ghrp-6 was new. After the swelling went down, I still couldn't twist my leg with enough force to put my shoes on for a few weeks. After about a week, I could walk ok straight, but stairs were impossible, and just turning a corner was very painful. Went to orthopedic who confirmed the tear and scheduled an MRI.

I dont remember exactly when I went on ghrp-6, but it was probably about 1.5 weeks later. My first experience with PEDs. It was about 4-5 weeks total that my meniscus tear apparently healed itself completely. This is before I could even go back to the orthopedic for the MRI follow up. It's never hurt me again to this day.