A bit of history:

i am now a 31 yr old female.
In 94 I injured the right knee. I was stepping off a wooden pallet (right foot on the pallet left foot in the air to take the next step) when the pallet broke sending my full weight and that of the load I was carrying down 6-8 inches onto my right leg, twisting my knee at the same time. They first compression wrapped and later casted the right leg despite no fractures noted. A couple of months later when the knee started giving out without warning or pain I was given a jointed knee brace (metal bilateral joint built into the brace). Two years later the military sent me to pt for a few months to strengthen the muscles of the knee when the xrays and mri (i think) came back clear.

Jump ahead to present time. I am out of the military.
I have continued to have the same problems. However in the past couple of years pain has reared it's ugly head. I endure a few days of achyness throughout the knee, some instability, then a few days of pain on the bilateral sides of the right knee before the pain goes away until the next time it occurs. My left knee in the past six months has gone through the achyness while the full cycle described above occurs in the right knee.

Last weekend I could barely walk in the am. By the afternoon I still had an achy feeling in both knees and the instability in the right knee despite a variety of otc nsaid's. After a visit to the current family physician I was sent for an mri to the right knee. Guess what, it came back clear! Nothing wrong, all is "normal" with my knee!

I have been internet searching and googling ever since. I have come back with a wide variety of possibilities and impossibilities. Some have said arthritis until the mri showing clear. Others have linked my achy hands. Another wanted to link my hysterectomy (completed while in the military because they could not find the cause of the 28 days/month bleeding) and of course plenty say they can cure it with their herbs, potions, seminars or books.

I am not going out of my mind but I will if the doctors keep telling me nothing's wrong.

Any advice, recommendations or ideas of what it could be without selling me herbs, potions, seminars etc is most welcome.

Thank you!

~hoping for relieving help