there is no way to offer you a patient-specific answer to your many questions since i have no way of examining your knee. there is a good chance that your knee symptoms are completely unrelated to your foreign bodies but it is going to take a good orthopedic assessment and some imagining studies to see where you stand in this matter.
i have rocks and dirt in my knee. it's starting to affect my life. what can be done about it? . around age 9 i fell and had a very bad injury to my left knee. the wound wasn't cleaned properly and i have dirt/rocks underneath my skin. i am 29 now and occasionally i will feel a hollowness in my knee that makes it hard for me to walk--it feels like a disconnection between my thigh and leg. i don't want surgery but i don't want this to get worse as i get older. what are some treatments? if i had to have surgery what would that entail and how long would recovery be?