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I've had my ACL done 3 times. Full thickness tear the 3rd time. Meniscus once. All in the same knee.
Like everyone above has said, ice, ice, and more ice. I tore all of mine in a 13 year span when I played basketball ending a few years ago so my recovery is probably very different than yours. Started physio soon after but at about 4 weeks after surgery we started doing exercises, started doing on ground running movement 3 months after (not treadmill or stationary bike), started really pushing it about 6 months after but didn't feel confident with movements till about 9 months after surgery.
I had the luxury of having access to a physio everyday although some of them were simply icing and ultrasound. A key thing that helped me was doing a contrast bath sooner rather than later. Contrast bath is where you ice for a minute then heat for a minute and do it for about 20 minutes. My physio had me doing that at about week 4.
Good luck!
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