ACL

[jgking83]

How many of you have torn yours?

I think it's fascinating how some people know they tore something, but don't appear to be in pain. When I tore mine, it was the worst pain I've ever felt.

Any idea why?

 

[fsutton]

I tore mine and it hurt like a nutcracker

 

[ryno62387]

Tore my PCL and had a grade 3 MCL sprain in high school playing pickup tackle football during Thanksgiving break. Hurt like hell, couldn't walk on it for a week. Never got it repaired, but rehabbed 4-6 weeks and I've been fine since. Dr.'s told me i'll probably start having issues with it once I get to my 50'/60's. Guess we will find out lol

 

[jgking83]

Tore my PCL and had a grade 3 MCL sprain in high school playing pickup tackle football during Thanksgiving break. Hurt like hell, couldn't walk on it for a week. Never got it repaired, but rehabbed 4-6 weeks and I've been fine since. Dr.'s told me i'll probably start having issues with it once I get to my 50'/60's. Guess we will find out lol

They told me I didn't have to have it repaired, but I'm way too active. Had surgery about six months after the injury. Rehab sucked.

 

[Spearhead04]

Torn a hamstring. You can still see the divot in the leg 20 years later. Tore my pec muscle. Also tore my rotator cuff. None of them were repaired.

 

[tigity]

It really just depends on the severity of the tear.

ACL tears are not all created equal but in order to perform high level athletics all must be fixed because the stability of the knee will be compromised even in a level 1 tear.

Level 1 can heal on its own for many people, and they will go on about life just fine but anything higher usually requires surgery for most people.

With a level one and sometimes a level 2 tear ya might just think you "tweaked a knee" and then have swelling later and realize it is more severe than originally thought. With most level 2 or 3 tears most people describe a major pop and an inability to put any weight on it and severe pain.

Like I said though. As far as athletes go a massive majority of ACL tears will require surgery to avoid future injury but for 42 year old Joe Schmo with a lesser intensity lifestyle he can do just fine healing from a lower level tear.

@jgking83

 

[bryce15]

Yea mine is still tore in my left knee it's awful not being able to have full stability, if I so much as get bumped I collapse lol.

 

[noletime1995]

Two acl tears and both were extremely painful

 

[FSUfan1973]

How many of you have torn yours?

I think it's fascinating how some people know they tore something, but don't appear to be in pain. When I tore mine, it was the worst pain I've ever felt.

Any idea why?

Worst pain of my life was my body trying to push a kidney stone out the size of a half dollar and that’s not exaggerating. I thought I was going to die. The doctors put me on the highest level pain killers and rushed me to surgery to break it up and then sent the sucker off to run studies on it😅. Not sure other than burning to death could be worse than that.

Shortly after that I was diagnosed with gout and my body produces too much calcium. The stone was calcium based. That was over 20 years ago and I still suffer from the PTSD from that every time my lower back starts to ache. I’ve passed probably a minimum of about 100 kidney stones since. Maybe more. Gout sux and no other way to put it.

 

[jgking83]

Worst pain of my life was my body trying to push a kidney stone out the size of a half dollar and that’s not exaggerating. I thought I was going to die. The doctors put me on the highest level pain killers and rushed me to surgery to break it up and then sent the sucker off to run studies on it😅. Not sure other than burning to death could be worse than that.

Shortly after that I was diagnosed with gout and my body produces too much calcium. The stone was calcium based. That was over 20 years ago and I still suffer from the PTSD from that every time my lower back starts to ache. I’ve passed probably a minimum of about 100 kidney stones since. Maybe more. Gout sux and no other way to put it.

Could have done without that story...lol

 

[mNoles5]

Tore mine in 2000 playing softball. Patel repair. Most pain I’ve ever been in. Wife made fun of me for the pain. Jamal Anderson had it shortly after said he’d never do another one and I pasted the article on the fridge.
Pain management, on my partial replacements, have come a looong way since.

 

[pauldNole]

How many of you have torn yours?

I think it's fascinating how some people know they tore something, but don't appear to be in pain. When I tore mine, it was the worst pain I've ever felt.

Any idea why?

The Nerve is severed sometimes, mine was not, worst pain ever.

 

[FSUfan1973]

Could have done without that story...lol

I could’ve lived without the story to tell 😂

 

[haywood50]

How many of you have torn yours?

I think it's fascinating how some people know they tore something, but don't appear to be in pain. When I tore mine, it was the worst pain I've ever felt.

Any idea why?

I torn mine in a non contract injury in HS. I played about a quarter after in happened then it had just swelled way too big to be a sprain like I thought. It just felt like a super strong popping of a knuckle. I was shocked later to find out it was worse.

 

[kj9127]

No ACL in my left knee, iliotibial band routed through the knee like a shoestring. Injury was very painful. No ACL in my right knee. Six surgeries on left knee, three on right. All pretty painful, but post surgical pain was was much worse on my shoulders.

 

[squiffynole]

ACL hurts terrible. Torn meniscus is in the same league. Bone on bone is a nightmare. But the worst for me has been sciatic pain from pinched nerves in the lower back.

The good news is two knee replacements later I have better mobility than 20 years ago. If you get in that situation my advice is to get the surgery done sooner and not later and be sure to ask for Dr. Wong at the TOC.

 

[Jaxsurfbum]

Did mine in a halfpipe skateboarding. Just took an awkward step and a loud pop from my knee and I was down. Sounded like a rubber band snapping. Immediately threw up from the pain. Within a few minutes pain was gone and I continued to skate. My knee swelled a little bit but it took me almost a year and re-injuring it before I had surgery. Super weird. Barely bothered me that whole time.

 

[fsu127]

Tore ACL and bicep tendon (separate incidents). Neither really hurt but rehab was not fun for either.

 

[TheRealDonBrasco29]

My wife tore her ACL, MCL & PCL all at once. She said it didn’t her at all.

She said knee felt like jello, after the surgery was really really bad pain.

 

[finendandy2]

Worst pain of my life was my body trying to push a kidney stone out the size of a half dollar and that’s not exaggerating. I thought I was going to die. The doctors put me on the highest level pain killers and rushed me to surgery to break it up and then sent the sucker off to run studies on it😅. Not sure other than burning to death could be worse than that.

Shortly after that I was diagnosed with gout and my body produces too much calcium. The stone was calcium based. That was over 20 years ago and I still suffer from the PTSD from that every time my lower back starts to ache. I’ve passed probably a minimum of about 100 kidney stones since. Maybe more. Gout sux and no other way to put it.

I completely empathize with you. I've passed one kidney stone, about 4mm, and it was the worst pain I've ever encountered. Unfortunately for me I have 3 more kidney stones currently in my kidneys and I hope they never move. One of those three is 9 mm and the other two are 3-4 mm. I go to Mayo every six months for a CT scan for monitoring. I can't begin to imagine the pain you've encountered over the years passing 100+ stones. That is insane and my sympathies go out to you.

 

[FSUfan1973]

I completely empathize with you. I've passed one kidney stone, about 4mm, and it was the worst pain I've ever encountered. Unfortunately for me I have 3 more kidney stones currently in my kidneys and I hope they never move. One of those three is 9 mm and the other two are 3-4 mm. I go to Mayo every six months for a CT scan for monitoring. I can't begin to imagine the pain you've encountered over the years passing 100+ stones. That is insane and my sympathies go out to you.

Thank you. Those who’ve passed even one knows what it’s like. Like pissing out a sand burr.

 

[divinnole]

Had a partial tear of mine in August of 75. Elected not to have surgery and did rehab on my own. Played JUCO baseball the following spring. I still could run straight ahead well enough to be a serious basestealing threat, but I would end up almost in the OF trying to round the bases running full speed. It was probably 2 years before I had enough stablity to to do any sport which required quick change of directions.

I really think the instability in the knee contributed greatly to later minuscus tears, and to a total of 8 knee surgeries. The last 2 two being both knees replaced, one partial and one total replacement.

 

[InjunJoe]

Tore mine in a judo class at TCC in 1990. Heard a pop in the knee and had manageable pain. Over the years I have had 5 surgeries. The latest and hopefully the last one was a full join replacement two months ago. The post op pain was no walk in the park but manageable. Was walking with a cane and driving after 6 days. Ditched the cane after three weeks. Listening to the PT and doing the exercises is the key.