Chronic Knee pain!!

[hallc1999]

hi everyone!!!

im 21 years old (female) & most of my childhood life i remember having knee pain at night, sometimes so bad i would cry & need to sleep with ice packs.. it was the only way i could sleep. it stopped, or at least i thought... im 21 now and back in august i started having bad knee pains, aching, bad while resting & while moving around. im not very active, i definitely didnt hurt myself. so now its been a few months. theres no swellling or tenderness i can see. just my left hurts more than my right but its bad some days and i know i need to see a doc but could it be arthritis? it hurts bad while im waitressing , and when i rest it doesnt stop aching!!!!!!

[cyberbarn]

Only a doctor could tell if it is arthritis or not, and there are very many different kinds of arthritis too. But I was wondering if you are hypermobile at all? Are your joints very flexible?

[hallc1999 in reply to cyberbarn]

i mean they move normal

[cyberbarn in reply to hallc1999]

Okay. there is a condition called hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that can cause this sort of pain in younger people, but if you are not hypermobile then you unlikely to have it. I hope you can get a doctor's appointment soon.