[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx

Has anyone here ever gone to another country for a medical procedure? If so, please share your experience if you are willing.

For those who have had an ACL repaired… can you tell me what I might be in for?

Long story short… I have no medical insurance and a torn ligament in my knee. Looking around and I find that I can get my ACL repaired AND stay a week in an all inclusive resort in Costa Rica for about 35% of the cost of doing it here in the US.

Even less in the Dominican Republic.

I’m leaning towards Costa Rica because they have world class medical centers there though vs in the DR where they are working with equipment from the 80s and 90s.

I'm an ACL. Military deal, not fully torn/severed, just "stretched", so all they did was take off some "floating" meniscus (because the ACL wasn't totally torn) and called it good.

What they had me do was build my hamstring strength instead of rip it all out. That was in the 80s so ACL surgery has come a long way, but I know this, the hamstrings are very key to knee stability.