I am a physical therapist and see this stuff all the time. At your age you PROBABLY have significant arthritis in addition to the meniscus tear. Get the surgery; at the time the doc will clean out the junk floating around. The surgery may help a lot, may do nothing, and will not make you worse unless you get a complication like infection or blood clot. If the menisus is causing most of it you will do a lot better. Minimal work to be done after arthroscopy. If it's arthritis it may not feel better. Next step then is knee replacement. Both of these procedures and done every day across the world because they help people. There are potential complications. If you can't do the things you want to do because of pain, take the step and get the operations or operations. Millions have survived and prospered after them. (do not compare the heart surgery, 2 completely different things)
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