I am 29 years old and have had bursitis in my left knee since November of 2004. I'm not sure exactly when I got it, but I'm pretty sure that the car accident I was in that year did it for me. A truck rear-ended my husband and me at a railroad crossing. He didn't see us stopped, waiting for the train to pass because he was on his cell phone and he sent us flying into the tracks. Our car was totaled. We got our daughter and ran before getting hit by a train. Needless to say the coward left us there, not even helping us! Anyway, when we were hit, the impact shoved me into the dashboard, and I smashed my knee real good into it. It was black and blue for weeks, and after that, the swelling never went away. Since then, I walk with pain. Some days it doesn't bother me, and others like today when it's so painful, nothing helps, not even anti-inflammatory meds. I have stopped trying to take anything to help because it's all for nothing. My knee pops all the time. I have bad leg cramps at night when I lie down to sleep. I'm not sure what to do anymore, and there's probably nothing I can do anyway since I have no insurance.

I had to clean my oven one day, and over an afternoon, I knelt on the hard kitchen floor off and on about three times in total to scrub the oven. As I did this, I was kneeling on my right knee ... and then later, this knee became very sore. It stayed sore for four weeks. It was hard to bend. Although I could walk, I could not do much else with it, and it was very painful, and swollen. Finally, I dragged myself off to the doctor. (Yes, I know, I should have gone earlier!) My doctor prescribed an anti-inflammatory for my knee bursitis that I have taken for five days and has made quite a difference. I will keep taking the prescription for another week, and I hope it will improve even more. No more kneeling on hard surfaces for me!

I have had knee pain since September of 2012 and it got worse in October. It had me in the doctor's office in late November getting x-rays, injections, and now I have been doing physical therapy twice a week. The pain in my knee has been unbearable until I recently got antibiotics for an ongoing sinus infection that I had back in July. I started taking them last Thursday January 3, 2013 and as of today am living with a near normal knee. I still has a bit of pain but I honestly do believe that I did have an infection in the bursa of the knee. At least with all of the research I've done over the last few months it now has pointed to this. Every one out there people suffer with knee pain do not give up hope.

I am a 37 year old female. I work in a retail store that requires me to frequently kneel to fix items on the lower shelves of the stores and to be on my feet standing or walking for 8+ hours with no break. I noticed pains in my leg when I would lie down to sleep. My knee would be stiff and swollen after working a shift. Now its several months later and I have a bubble of fluid on the knee cap. I cannot kneel on it as it feels like I'm kneeling on a bubble and is painful. I'm hoping doctor will drain it for me when I go in a couple of days.

My son is 12 years old and has this. It happened when he was eleven playing flag football. I have had two different doctors examine him. Because he is so active, we now ice immediately after tackle football and baseball (he catches, go figure). When he plays football, he wears volleyball knee pads from Under Armour that help a lot. Both doctors have said he is the youngest patient they have seen with knee bursitis.

Swelling and pain occurred in the front of the knee and toward the inner side of the knee. I have had bursitis for about three months. I have had physiotherapy for it, which gave me relief for a while after, but it didn't cure it. I have been doing exercises: bending the knee and pulling it up toward the chest as far as I can go 10 times, three times a day. Also, I have been walking in a pool up and down for half an hour.