i tore my acl back in high school and it took out a bit of the miniscus with it. if you've been living with it for half a year then it cant be nearly as bad as mine was, i was having a hard time walking period. they'll probably do orthescopic surgury and get you put back together lickity split. figure your recovery time to be about 3months depending on how serious the damage is and how seriuos you are about getting better. took me about a year to get back to 100% but i was water skiing at 4months. good luck with it.