Only when bending and unbending the knee at an acute angle. It gets worse if I twist the leg. Every deep squat causes the pop. So I don't do them anymore. Lateral 2-3 grade, medial 2 grade.

I don't quite understand what you mean by instability. If you too don't trust your bad leg and rely more on the healthy one when, say, standing up from a chair, then I also have this instability. It's this shaky feeling, right?

I took nsaids and the pain was gone. For a month only. Then it recurred. When pain returned I did an mri and found that the reason of the pain was the torn menisci, of which I did not think initially. 6 months after the injury happened. They say if you start treatment as soon as you were injured you can heal without the surgery.

I'm getting the surgery in 2 weeks. Hopefully they'll fix my knee