About 5 months ago I injured one of my knees while doing some modified cross fit with my husband (I was on the 6 month medically supervised diet and exercise). It was a terrible pain on the side and back of my knee with very little swelling but my doctor just could not see anything. I had an xray done but it was normal, so she believes there's a bakers cyst and I would need to go to a sports medicine doctor for mri or treatment. It's finally tolerable after 5 months but it's definitely not "normal". I've spent so much money on all of my medical appointments leading up to my surgery that is planned for 3/16/16 and I just got my insurance approval that I just don't want to spend more money on a sports doctor if they will literally tell me that I need to lose weight to take pressure off of my knees. My question for you that have already had the surgery, is did you notice that dropping weight rapidly in the beginning took away any knee pain for you? Would you recommend that I still go see a sports medicine doctor or wait and see how it feels a few months after surgery?

I would do what my primary care doctor told me to do . . .

I would get it checked out by the Orthopedic and have the MRI.

I had pain in both of my knees that was so awful my orthopedic doctor gave me steroid injections. I have arthritis in my knees & hands. I've lost so much weight that my knees no longer hurt & I no longer use a CPAP. Good luck with your surgery. It's one of the best decisions I have ever made.