Too Young to Fall Apart!

[Kathi]

Have you checked your saddle height? A to high or low saddle can cause knee pain.

Your description also sounds like patellar femoral syndrome also known as chrondrolamcia.

If your saddle and bike fit is right on I'd see an ortho. If it is connected to chrondrolamacia he will recommend pt to strengthen the quads. Be forwarned, if you do have this problem it won't go away with a few weeks of PT, it's a lifelong committment to keep it under control.

[DarcyInOregon]

Meaux, you need to see the doctor. The knee pain might be the seat position, or it might be that you tore something in the knee and you need surgery. The pain on the right, that sounds exactly like sciatica. However, sciatica is typically caused by a ruptured disk or two in the lower back that causes the sciatic nerve cluster to get inflamed. The sciatic nerve clusters are located on the upper part of each buttock. You need to see the doctor so that a determination can be made on whether you need x-rays and MRIs. Disks in the back can be ruptured easily, as easily as turning over in your sleep and twisting your back in the wrong way. Or it might be something else. Whatever it all is, you need to see your doctor.

[Offthegrid]

I'm your age, and I had a lot of issues with the low back pain radiating down the butt and my entire leg. Sometimes my entire leg would go numb when I was sleeping. Scary. (I had X-rays and MRI. My doctor said I have a herniated disk, but he doesn't think that's causing the problem. Hence, I'm switching doctors).

ANYhow, mine has gotten dramatically better since this started about 5 months ago. In fact, I can't remember the last time I felt pain there, and I didn't give up biking, swimming or lifting weights. So just wanted to give you a bit of hope that even if you do nothing about that, it can get better over time.