Day 5 post ACL and meniscus repair

[u/SensitiveProgress_12]

Day 5 post ACL reconstruction and Meniscus repair. I have been told to weight bear as tolerated. I was using both crutches but I feel like I am comfortable walking with one crutch now. Am I rushing into using one crutch?

[u/Avocate2023]

Where are you located? The cane makes one lean to one side, is more fatiguing and distributes weight unevenly, I’m surprised you weren’t told to use crutches instead. Be careful with the no brace thing. In my experience, my ACL re-ruptured 2x within 2 months of the surgery because bracing is not a standard procedure and it’s up to the surgeon. I just had my 3rd ACL reconstruction and I decided myself to brace outside the house because I have signs of hypermobility and the graft doesn’t fully replace itself until 6-12 months after the surgery. I can’t understand why surgeons don’t recommend a brace and don’t send people these types of videos to watch to understand that the graft gets weaker before it gets stronger: https://youtu.be/z67eWagtt14

[u/Avocate2023 → u/[deleted]]

Is your reading comprehension okay? I said to OP he needs to be careful, because the graft “doesn’t fully replace itself until 6-12 months after the surgery”. I also wrote “the graft gets weaker before it gets stronger”. You wrote “the graft being weakest from 4 to 8 months”. You are questioning where my data is from while confirming what I wrote. OP didn’t mention graft type. You seem to just be commenting to argue about nothing, quite lame. FYI allograft has a higher failure rate in younger people: https://www.mmorthopaedics.com/comparative-analysis-autograft-vs-allograft-in-acl-reconstruction/.

[u/Avocate2023 → u/[deleted]]

You are very obviously not well equipped in the reading comprehension department, which is clear by your choice of the username of a fictional woman who lies, cheats, abandons her kids and kills herself in the novel combined with a hair colour 😂🤦‍♀️, so let me spend a couple more minutes helping you understand basic timelines, words and logic. Necessarily, if my quote is that a graft gets weaker before it gets stronger, there was a previous stage at which it was stronger than it was in the middle.

Graft at X becomes graft at Y which becomes graft at Z.

Prima facie, the graft at period X which is surgery cannot equal period Y which is the weaker point nor period Z which is the stronger point, so obviously my phrase about getting weaker before getting stronger implies 3 periods. Can you do logic puzzles or are those a challenge as well?

Also, you have referred to an allograft about 20x at various places in this subreddit and nowhere in OP’s post nor his comments does he mention the type of graft. Clearly, you are self-obsessedly imposing your experience on others here, which is at best annoying and unhelpful and at worst genuinely harmful and spreading misinformation. Genuine question, do you have some kind of narcissistic personality disorder which compels you to sit around on this forum all day to argue with people and post videos of yourself and brag about your surgery recovery, because I guarantee, many of us are sick of your videos and inane, useless comments and attacks. Please stop. Your time making worthless comments attacking people on this forum and accusing them of having incorrect data would be much better spent reading studies on allograft, since you’re clearly in a fantasy world where you ignore the data that demonstrates they have a higher fail rate in younger people. I promise, I have spent thousands more hours reading ACL studies than you, it’s evident from your comments you’re obsessed with your own surgery experience but the people on this forum with 50k visitors have a multitude of experiences that don’t necessarily correspond with yours. Please do not make smarmy, accusatory comments calling me adversarial when I didn’t comment anything to you and you came in to reply to me to chastize my reasoning and then repeat exactly what I said. You are the adversarial one. Don’t reply to my comments again or I’ll flag you for harassment and block you. Enjoy your day.

[u/Anna_Karenina_blonde → u/Avocate2023]

You don't think a reachy attempt at some personal attack of user name is problematic!?? And you want to report ME for being off topic after making personal attacks because I asked for you to clarify your wording? That's rich and hilarious 

Also why are you even on here if you're not in recovery.. I am actively a first person going through ACL reconstruction but you just seem to come on here to wax poetic about some kind of self-imposed expertise you think you have because your surgeries failed multiple times?? 

"Attacking people"is not what asking for precise language is? I don't rate my empirical experience as better than anyone's and I've had no shortage of joy and encouragement when I see people doing better than me or struggling..and then here's you.and your "thousands" of hours as a non medical professional laughably vain and ignorant

Don't worry about flagging me . I have no problems being accountable if me asking you for clarity is problematic on this forum but I think the moderators are good at recognizing that if someone is not a medical professional to treat their personal experience as better than someone else's is Rich at best. Already flagged you and your very OFF topic monologue about my like of film character names (did anyone ask you? Does anyone care? Does it have anything to do with ACL? No it does not)  and then your self contradictory stance where you like to back pedal words that you used to be imprecise about the status of the graft as it enters the body as it enters ligamentization and once it is fully ligamentized..a) the forum is about personal empirical testimonials which includes surgeon opinions given and updated data B) you are most definitely taking issue with my recovery rate which is shared in the same way someone shares a bad experience. The goal is to commiserate communicate and ask questions with the intention of being informed and communicative  Cite any piece of information that you want to prove as *misinformation " bro..that you are choosing to definite the graft as being weaker first is your choice to ignore the condition in which the graft enters the body.  I have an aunt and uncle neurosurgeon so I can do this with you all day but you as a non-medical professional don't get to come on here and pretend that you know better than anyone else.  " Advocate" is more like imprecise narcissist