It sounds to me that you had a bad ortho surgeon.
First he or she misdiagnosed you and then performed
the surgery on a misdiagnose and caused greater pain
to the original problem. Go to a different Ortho
preferrably in a town adjacent to yours not the same
town and get another opinion.
--- salir22 <salir22@...> wrote:

> Hello everyone-
> I had arthroscopic surgery done on my right knee on
> September 1st to
> remove a meniscal cyst (no meniscal tear was found).
> When I went for
> my postop appt. 10 days later, my ortho diagnosed me
> as having
> iliotibial band syndrome, as I was still having a
> lot of the same
> symptoms I had prior to the surgery, such as a lot
> of pain going up
> stairs, and pain over the IT band. I also still had
> a lot of
> pressure in my knee from the surgery. So I went to
> physical therapy
> for a few weeks and it helped a little but not too
> much, particularly
> when it came to stretching the IT band, which the
> physical therapist
> made so sore by doing a friction rub that I got a
> huge bruise and a
> lot of swelling there.
> My ortho said at my post op to wait 6 weeks before
> coming back to
> give things a chance to heal. So now it's 29 days
> post surgery and
> I'm still in as much pain as I was prior to the
> surgery, along with
> the extra pain from the IT band. I'm just wondering
> if anyone else
> had similar type problems and if I should go back to
> ortho early
> because I'm having so much trouble.
>
> Thanks.
> jenn
>
>
>
>




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