u/Bored4896

I'm 21 and i remember when it all started probably, my cousins had come over and one of them had just started going to the gym, so i took them to the gym near my house (i hadn't been to the gym for a few months) and they kept asking me to do some exercises too, i kept saying no but i ended up doing leg presses because i lowkey loved leg days

So i went ahead and did 5 reps with 170kg then increased it till 200kg and did 10 reps (yes i know i shouldn't have done it without any warm-up, it gets worse)

And then i rested my legs completely straight for some time.

After going home my legs completely gave out after 2 3 hours for Like 15 minutes but it got better, however, idk how to explain it but do you know that feeling when you're cracking your knuckles or neck, and then you can almost feel it crack but sometimes doesnt crack, that started happening to my knees, more on my right.

I didnt realise it was a meniscus injury, and thought it was just something temporary, then after a few months i went on a trip with my friends and i went ahead and climbed a mountain.

Not like actually climbed climbed it, more like it had alot of stairs and pathways and all, and it was alot, then we reached the top and decided to wait for our other friends.

I thought to explore a bit and found some stairs leading down, but it wasn't like the way we came up, so i thought there was some floor or something down, so naturally i decided to go down and see, and i have this bad habit of jumping and sprinting down stairs, especially when there are alot of stairs, and turns out it went all the way down, but to the other side of the mountain and i find myself in the town behind the mountain, and i genuinely felt like po from kung fu panda, there were alot of stairs

Then my friends called me and i had to go up again, and i tried to sprint up the stairs but i got really tired really quick, and the moment i reach back up, my friends say we have to go down so we wait for like 20 minutes and then head back down

So i go down with my friends, again with all the jumping and sprinting, and by the time we reach back to the place we're staying at, my knee starts to hurt alot

This happened in December, and i got my MRI done in January, the doctor told me that my meniscus is shattered, not one or two tears but shattered, and that repairing it might not be possible

And now i think my left knee's meniscus is also torn

But not as bad as my right one for some reason

Anyway i wanted to know if i can go to the gym properly after my surgery, and run and do some sports which definitely require my legs.

Even now my knee sometimes gets locked while walking, and it doesn't hurt as bad as it used to but it's still pretty uncomfortable

This is actually my first post on reddit