My knee pain symptoms are pain when doing stairs, especially going down stairs pain when getting up from a sitting position and pain upon kneeling also terrible grinding noises going up the stairs. I now have to use a cane to go up and down my stairs, and I exercise 4-6 times a week. Regular walking doesn't hurt so much, but sometimes my knee aches so badly at night it inhibits sleep. My insurance is effective in January so I will see the doc then, as it has been almost 2 years of gradually increasing pain in my knees! Though the left knee is considerably worse.

I have been getting pain in my right knee, so I kept putting pressure on different parts of the knee to see where the actual pain comes from, and it comes from the outside on the right side of the knee. I have been doing day care and have been changing diapers on the mat on the floor for 10 yrs. I am assuming that the knee had enough bending. I just turned 52, and in good physical health, besides my knee. I bought a hot tub and went into it yesterday after the pain was so much, and it relieved most of the pain. It was hurting so bad and being stiff, took Advil, helped somewhat. I bought the hot tub for lower back pain from lifting the babies, but it's useful for other problems like the knee. I guess I should go to see a doctor, but you know them, they like to perform surgery for everything, which I don't want. Rest, Advil, Hot Tub helps me.

Pain in the back of knee. More prevalent when trying to squat. After sport no swelling. No definitive point of pain, generally at the back of the knee.

I was bending down one night at work to put something in a safe-like box. I twisted, felt knee pain, but was unable to stop the twisting momentum before I felt a pop in my right knee. It hurt some but not too bad. Now, every time I bend at the knees, I feel this pain as if my knee is about to pop. Usually I can correct and stop it, but tonight, I was unable to, and it popped again. I didn't have much pain at the time, but now, I have pain when I get up and walk around, not when I'm sitting. There is no swelling.

My knee pain is ongoing. Soon after joining a health club last September I started having knee pain. I was on the treadmill and also into weight training involving leg lifts etc. I have a torn cartilage in my right knee. I take Celebrex and now I am using Advil. I change pain medications time to time. My only option is surgery to repair cartilage, but there are no guarantees this will alleviate the pain entirely. Celebrex has a low effect on pain until taking in four days or more. So far Advil has helped the most even better than Tylenol arthritis OTC.

I've had right knee pain since 1995 after a fall. First, I had arthroscopy done in June of 1995 for my torn medial meniscus. The pain continued, so I had a second arthroscopy done in 1998. The pain continued after that surgery, and by 2005, I was unable to walk. An MRI showed torn medial meniscus and so I had a third arthroscopy done. In 2007, I went back to orthopedic surgeon with the same symptoms, only this time I had the feeling of something getting caught and then a loud snapping or popping sound. I was told basically to deal with it, and that my pain management doctor would have to write my prescriptions. (I had gone to this orthopedic surgeon since 2000 and never had this man written a prescription for me.) He talked to me as if I was seeking drugs, and all I have wanted for 13 years is to have my knee fixed properly.

I developed a severe pain in my left knee and I didn't remember injuring it. I do play a lot of tennis, but I don't remember it hurting during my tennis matches. I did notice tightness in the back of my knee after sitting through a meeting at my office. It was real tight, and it gradually got worse and moved over to the front part of my knee and down into the back of my calf muscle. I almost needed crutches for a couple of days because it really hurt just to walk. Now, it is two weeks later, and it is feeling a lot better. However, the tightness of the muscles and the tenderness of my calf muscles are still there. It is much easier to walk now.