Hi,
I'm hoping someone on here can give me an answer. This is probably nothing at all, but it's beginning to really bother me so I was just wondering whether there might be an easy answer.

I'm a 22year old female student.

For about the past 2 months I've started developing severe pains in my left knee. The pain feels like a pressure in my knee that starts small and gradually increases over a few seconds until it becomes very painful. This only seems to occur when my knee is bent - usually when I'm sitting with it bent at 90degrees, and the only way I can reduce the pain is to extend it fully. I don't think it ever develops during movement.
(N.B. The pain doesn't develop every time my knee is bent, but this is the only position in which it hurts.)

There is also a lot of crepitus in the knee joint - much more than the other side, and it's there constantly. Even without touching my knee, I can feel it 'crunch' whenever I move it between flexion and extension. There is no swelling that I can see.

The pain has been coming more and more often during the last month or so. It occasionally wakes me up at night if I accidentally sleep with my leg bent.

Anyway, as I said, probably nothing, but I'd appreciate any opinions!

Thanks very much

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