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Krystal

When I was 12 I fell down the stairs and hurt my knee, my doctor at the time didn't think I had done damage, and therefore didn't do anything about it. When I was 16 we moved away and I went to see a new doc who ordered my first of many MRI's and we found the medial meniscus was torn. He went in and removed 2/3 of it, in his words my meniscus was mush. I went along fine until 2005 when I was at work and walking and my knee "popped" and I felt a shooting pain and it felt like something exploded inside my knee and it was cold and wet on the inside. My doc then ordered another MRI and found I had significant damage to my knee and I was given a couple options... a meniscus transplant or a TKR. Being as I was only 20 at the time I opted for the Meniscus transplant. I was sent to the best OS in the area and on March 15, 2006 I had my meniscus transplant. After I had it done I hated life, at three weeks in I was supposed to be bending it at 50* angle and couldn't go past 45*, So I was then sent to PT where they weren't able to move it any further either. after three weeks of intensive PT the OS decided it was time to take me into surgery for a manipulation. After that my ROM doubled to 90*. I stayed in the PT for another three months and finally was almost at full ROM. Five months later I started having increasing amounts of pain and went to see my OS and he ordered another MRI. The MRI showed the anterior wall of the medial meniscus is too far forward and the posterior wall looked like mush. So now I sit in limbo waiting for the OS to decide what we do next.

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