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Frustrations with Knee Pain

This may become my new place to rant.  I am again left feeling frustrated for not being able to exercise.  I keep thinking about the person I was.  At least, the person I think I was.  I try to track calories and unless I am careful I go over.  When I was running, I never had to track calories.  It would have been next to impossible for me to go over on calories.  I miss being in my twenties. I finally know what is wrong with my knee.  I have patellofemoral ambulatory disorder.  Basically, there is a groove on your femur where patella tracks.  The groove on my femur is very shallow (almost non existent), so my patella doesn't track.  When I walk my patella rubs on the lateral condyle of my femur.  This causes irritation, which causes swelling, which causes pain.  I received a cortisone injection in my knee.  If you are ever about to have one of those, they hurt like hell.  I would rather sit through my five hou...