02-27-2009, 10:09 AM
Hi Pam, I'm ric, I had the same experience. It's very frustrating and painful, and seems to take longer than you'd expet to improve. I had arthroscopic meniscectomy on one knee, and it took a week or so to get to where I could hobble around on it unassisted, and I had same thing plus an additional IT band release on the other knee, I felt like I got butchered on that one and it was horribly painful for 3 weeks or so, even coming to tears still after 2 weeks. Funny thing is it's not a gradual healing curve. Seems to be really painful and no progress at all for days or weeks, and then in a matter of a few days the rate of recovery seems to speed up. Not sure which procedure you had, but hope this info will give you some point of reference. Best wishes.