Hi Reeve, thanks for the reply, and commiserations to Marie!Injury was 5 weeks ago (motorbikes are dangerous, who knew?) and initial diagnoses was just tear to mcl, no surgery, 8 weeks recovery. However got MRI back today and although no rupture, the consultant described the the mcl as like a cheesestraw, and the acl as very stretched and spongy. He is operating to repair rather than reconstruct the mcl, but expects to have to reconstruct the acl in a similar way to the way you described your gfs operation.How long was it before Marie was walking etc normally?
On the ACL issue only - recent good quality studies indicate that a wait and see approach to surgery with early rehab has good results vs early surgery.Here is an earlier study that has been backed up with more recent studies. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3prGoH5dQmLNHlDODVCVXYxTUU/viewhttps://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2017/09/20/time-stop-wasting-time-money-debating-graft-types-surgical-approaches-acl-injuries-secret-probably-lies-optimising-rehabilitation/It's a case by case basis really but personally I'd opt for rehab first with the option of surgery later if this can be agreed with your consultant.
With respect personal anecdotes should be be viewed and interpreted with caution. Anyway if your knee kept on giving way post rehab that should have indicated surgery, sooner rather than a lot later.
Anecdote only and a data point of one.
(apparently the outcomes are better if you either have surgery immediately or with a very long wait, I'm not sure why).