am a sixty-five (almost sixty-six) year old woman who had arthroscopic surgery in December of last year. My knee was hurting for almost a year before I had the operation.  I had a meniscus tear (medial) and the small torn part was cut out. The doctor said the

I had arthroscopic surgery on my knee in Sept of last year. Mine was die to a blow to the knee from a dog running into me. (I am 55)....after the surgery it was explained to me that during this surgery they "flush" out the bad cartilage with water, however, that left me with basically no cartilage at all, so now I walk with a limp. I can't straighten my knee all the way or bend it all the way. And this is after 3 months of PT. I never did understand how I could be perfectly fine one day, have an injury to the knee one day and then have such bad arthritis the next day! They told me an injury can "unmask" underlying arthritis........I think once they got in there, they should have seen all the bad cartilage and left it alone rather than flush it all out! At least I would have had something. Now they say I'm too young for a replacement, but I'm going for a second opinion to see about maybe a partial replacement.

Denise