So after thinking I have had an ITBS injury and doing everything and anything to make it better for 9 months I go have a 2nd opinion and he doesn't think its ITBS at all!!! I kind of had that thought enter my mind of the last 3 or so months when the pain wasn't right where I thought the ITB was. He says the pain and the swelling are just not in the right place to be ITBS. His theory and I say theory since there is no absolute proof on the MRI that this is the case, is that the Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) is what is being irritated by rubbing against something.
So I have two paths right now...
1. Keep doing what I'm doing and not ride and hope it gets better.
2. Allow someone to put me under the knife to "clean-up" that area of the knee.
I don't like the knife, but the idea of being able to bike w/o pain as early as August has some real appeal... The fact that the condition hasn't changed in 6 months doesn't give me real hope that #1 will allow me to what I want to do. Hmmm....
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I think your second doctor's opinion seems to be heading down the right track. You seem to have more going on than an ITB from what I've read/heard. Go for a third "tie breaker opinion" before you get it scoped. I know a few people who have been scoped and had knees "cleaned out", with success, and fairly quick recovery. But then, its not me, and I have no idea what the bill would be.
At least it doesn't seem to be a torn ligament, the MRI should have shown that.
Hmmm, August, just in time for Civil War and Seagull ;)
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