What to do?
Looking for some advice or guidance from y’all.
Had MACI on patella, single defect in January 2024. Since that, I also had 2 scopes to shave down cartilage overgrowth.. oh, and one pregnancy. Due to this, I’m quite behind on my recovery.
However, the last 5 months, I’ve been working hard with a new PT and started feeling stronger but there is still an almost constant pain there at the front of my knee right below my kneecap.
Had a recent MRI that showed cartilage still in place but some overgrowth again and there is a loose piece of bone floating around in of my knee. My doctor was not too worried about this. The MRI also stated there was a lot of scarring on the Hoffa fat pad. I asked my doc about this and he said he can see some impingement but again, doesn’t look “too bad”.
I just don’t know what to do anymore. I’m worse than I was before MACI and I don’t want to keep having more scope surgeries to “let’s see if this works” but instead a solid game plan on something that’s actually going to help me be active and pain free again.
My doc suggested waiting, having another scope, also offered revision MACI (I said hell no), OCA or OATS with TTO. I can’t even imagine going through another long recovery like this again. Looking at getting a second opinion from another doctor.