Meniscus tears

[CtinaDitty]

Has anyone here had a lateral meniscus tear? Or a tear that didn't show up on your MRI?

[melrich]

Not me.......

[CtinaDitty]

I have all the symptoms of a meniscus tear, but on my MRI, it was negative. Apparently lateral meniscus tears are a lot harder to get to show up on MRI's... So, idk, what's going on.

[iamteddybearfeelmecuddle]

huh....my bro recently underwent a bunch of those tests but I don't know what you mean I'm not up on my A&P.

[yeawutever]

Nope, not al all!!!!!!!

[coollady1957]

My daughter had this before. She had injured he knee during softball playing at school years ago. She went and had the MRI done and it showed nothing.

 

She was put in a knee brace and given meds, however the problem did not resolve. Went back and had another MRI and they said it was questionable on the tear,so they set up her for an exploratory and clean up job on the knee but once they got in there, sure enough was a torn miniscus.

[CtinaDitty]

Thanks coollady1957, that was helpful. Yeah, I injured mine playing soccer last November.

[CtinaDitty]

I was given a cortizone shot, and it worked for a while, but the next time I got taken out, the pain came STRAIGHT back and isn't leaving... It's in the meniscus area, it has the same symptoms, and... ugh... I just want to get this taken care of...

 

Should I get another MRI and another opinion? I don't really like the doctor I'm going to...