Quote Originally Posted by jessica47201 View Post
The knee suregery I had in 2001 they repaired, the knee surgery in 2007 they removed the torn part. I'm just wondering how much more meniscus can they take out?
Well, my husband tore his meniscus running cross country in college. only, no one figured out that's what it was at the time. So, he never got it fixed.

3 years or so later, he was still having knee issues and went to get it checked out. The whole meniscus was damaged and pretty much dead. They removed the whole thing. So now, it's just bone on bone. He can still walk and ride his bike and get around just fine, but running is out. Orthopedist said that if he ran, he'd need a knee replacement by 40.

On effusion. Effusion is excess build up of fluid in a joint. I have it in several joints from something similar to rheumatoid arthritis. It's pretty common in inflammatory arthritis.

On the plus side, there's a TON of research going on with cartilage reconstruction and synthetic synovial (joint) fluid replacements. Arthritis and joint problem treatments are vastly improved over 10 years ago.