re: Torn meniscus surgery recovery. Update page 4 with MRI results.

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What were your symptoms? I have knee pain when I go upstairs and get out of a chair, is that meniscus?

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First, where is the pain? Mine is right knee, inside (medial) and right below the kneecap.

From what I read on the web to “test it”, stand or lay down and try to straighten your knee fully. Is it painful?

Another is to stand up and put weight on the bad knee, then rotate your body/hips left and right to put a twisting motion on your knee. Is that painful?

From what I gather, the meniscus is basically cartilage between your leg bones and provides a cushion between the upper and lower leg bones. Basically anything that would put pressure on it will cause pain.

And like I said, it doesn’t hurt all of the time. I’m sitting in a recliner right now and it doesn’t hurt. But if I get up to walk around the house to get something, it may or may not start hurting. Sometimes after I sit down, then it starts hurting.

Last night I went to bed and was relatively pain free. About 2 o’clock in the morning, I woke up to throbbing pain in my knee that kept me up for over an hour. I’m like, “WTF? I Was laying in bed sleeping for a couple of hours, why are you hurting now?”