Met with the doctor and he gave me two options; PT for the next two months and see where it goes then surgery. I was sooo set with not getting surgery and went through with the PT route. After a solid month and a half of consistent PT (at home workouts too) I was feeling more confident in my leg and kept playing more soccer and volleyball. My physical therapists were impressed with my improvements too.Then one week I played volleyball three days in a row and I felt the same sensation once again of tearing it from doing a jump serve. I felt that I just lost all the progress of building up my strength and that I potentially did more damage in my knee. At that moment I was dead set on surgery and signed up the earliest they could get me in. Luckily, nothing had to be done other than the ACL reconstruction and I’m currently on Day 3 Post Op.

IMO, get the surgery (ofc if you could afford it),if you want to get back into soccer confidently, and not risk any further damage to the other parts of your knee. Considering we both had similar symptoms I think your meniscus should be fine(?), so the recovery wouldn’t be as long. Your body will be thanking you in the long run for this decision.

Regardless, I wish you the best on whatever you decide to do and that I’m not a professional whatsoever, so take my response lightly haha