My knee feels very swollen could there be a fluid in it?

The pain in my knee is now ridiculous, help with what to do? Anyone a GP?

• I have been suffering from knee pain in both knees, but my left knee is the problem child here. Both my knees have been surrounded with fluid since I was 13 and at that time I was told I had 'Osgood-Shlatters' disease. I've read that I should have grown out of this (I'm 6ft 5 and over 120kg now at 23). Now this wasn't a problem until a year and a half/two years ago, when the pain started and has steadily gotten worse since. It has got to the point where it feels like someone is hammering an ice pick into my knee. Both knees hurt, but I can handle my right knee pain(I've always been able to deal with pain) but not the left, it's unbearable. No matter what I'm doing it hurts, its agony even as I sit on my chair typing this. Stretching my leg and pulling on my leg muscle painfully cracks my knee as I feel and can hear a crack, but its only a few minutes of less pain before it returns to full throttle, piss me off mode. The last time I went to my GP I had taken too many Valium(non-prescribed), it was foolish and embarrassing of me, but it was a 1 off & I was majorly depressed and had took a bad reaction too the Prozac I had been Prescribed. Im 23, nearly 24 and have had pain in my knees since I was 13/14. Its now got to the point where the pain is unbearable most of the time. Here's the thing, I'm scared and extremely nervous of going back to my GP in-case my GP is awkward with me and not believing the pain I'm in and thinking I'm drug seeking or because of the previous encounter. Please, no silly answers like, 'try smothering you knee in marmalade' or such like. Thanks for taking time to read this!

• Answer:

  Your pain is real and there are ways to get rid of it, but not on the net. Muscles have tightened up in your knees. They are pulling everything tight in your knee to make it bind up and go into pain with every movement. The dr.'s don't get into the muscles much and they don't know how to free them up so they are lost at times like this. The muscles tighten up when there is trauma around them, like falling or knocking into something. That tightness is pulling the bones in the knee, along with the kneecap, tight for the joints to be slowly wearing away the insides of the joints so you will have bone on bone before long. Then you will need a replacement and your dr. will be there for that. There are so many muscle groups in the knee which makes it hard to know which ones and some are very difficult.