First Weeks After ACL Surgery

Thank you for information you sent me! I am almost 4 weeks after ACL Surgery, and I still have pain, especially when I'm resting. The first night after the surgery, I took painkillers every 2 hours. The nurse who was taking care of me, was very nice, and she told me to call her any time I feel a little pain. She told me from the beginning to don't wait until the pain is too high. I took painkillers few more days after I left the hospital, and that's all.

I started the recovery next day using crutches after the surgery and now I am doing my exercises every day under a kinetic therapist supervisor. I don't have pain when I walk, or when I'm doing my exercises but I have pain when I'm lying in the bed. How long will stay with me this pain? Also, I still cannot do full extension of the leg. When I tried to do some extra extensions I herd a pop in the back of my knee and for the first minutes I felt relieved, with more mobility in my knee, but after that I felt a pain for 3 days, so now I'm afraid to stretching  my leg. My therapist says that probably is just a stretching that will go away in few days. But I'm wondering if there will be more pops in my knee until I'll be able to reach full extension?

How long will you be in pain - Typically the worst pain is in the first 1-2 weeks but then pain can last as long as a few months

Pops in your knee - Dont try and "pop" your knee, this could be your hamstring or meniscus but I dont recommend poping your knee

http://www.aclsurgeryrecovery.net/05/crutches-after-acl-surgery/