Surgical removal of patellar tendon ossicle, adult Osgood Schlatter's disease #4

[SuperSLIMY1]

Hi mate just seen your videos on the Osgood Schlatter Disease. I am 20 years old and have the same thing but with both knees. The right knee lump is much bigger then the left knee. I have been told theirs a fracture on the right knee. Never really checked up the left. Just wanted to know how dod the surgery go? Are you fully recovered? Is it worth going for a surgery? im 20 years old and experience pain everyday and its going to get to a point where i cant even work. What is your advice for me?

[finjannos]

hey Ivan. i'm about to undergo an OS surgery 2 days from now. i have read a lot of negative opinions about the operation - healing time (some say a year to fully heal) , bump size (bigger than before the op.. scar tissue?) pain(never goes away) etc'. can you sum up your experience looking 8 months back?

and again, you seem to be an active fella, how's the sports section in your life?

thx ahead, and be well.

[IvanAndreevich]

@finjannos At this point it's better than before the surgery. Lump size.. about the same, but different.

I still get some discomfort but there's definitely less tendinitis than what was caused by the floating bone segment before.

[pdub12345678910]

how much was the surgery?

[ImSmarterThanYuo]

Osgood-Schlatters Disease, I had it, had surgery at age 25, it still hurts, it never went away with puberty. No one can explain to me medically as to why. Doctors make excuses to their failures and I've never met anyone who's had a successful surgery. We've (IvanAndreevich) have spoken briefly about this painful discomfort. Most of the time in pre-teens this pain will go away and subside, however, in unusual cases, it remains painful and the only remedy is surgery.

[IvanAndreevich]

@ImSmarterThanYuo It's too early to say how effective this has been in my case yet. My knee is roughly back to the same "shape" it was in before the surgery which is pretty good. Once that scar tissue subsides further, I think it can get into a kick ass state :D

[ImSmarterThanYuo]

@IvanAndreevich Keep in touch with me about your success etc. I tried to get my surgery and surgical procedures video taped, but unfortunately, the doctor wouldn't allow it. I even requested a simple photograph of it (because I wanted to see what it looked like, that has pained me for all these years) and the doctor would not do it. I'd still like to see what this actually looks like lol. It sucks when you have OSD, for long drives, sitting, kneeling, running, about anything makes it hurt.

[IvanAndreevich]

@ImSmarterThanYuo I ran 14 km today, pretty much no pain. Drove 800 km a few days ago - zero pain. Sit all day - no problem. Kneeling - yes.

I have an x-ray of my knee, and a ct scan so I can see the broken off piece before it was removed.

[TheFlynnBryce]

hey man, are you able to return to sport at full strength?

[IvanAndreevich]

@TheFlynnBryce Not yet. I would say I'm 80% there. I can run, hike, bike. Jumping is still not that great, although I can jump pretty much as high as before the surgery. In one more month I will be same as before the surgery - mild discomfort. After that, it will start getting better than ever.