medial knee pain

[kknnhh]

Hello, everyone this is my first post.  I am a teenage girl and I have been diagnosed with chondromalacia that I am told to just deal with.  I have been and it has been getting better.  However, I have this pain on my medial side of my knee that started yesterday.  I can't sit cross legged or get on my bed or even roll over in my bed without sever sharp pain.  I also sometimes am awakened by my pain.  When I walk I can feel the pain, and I don't even try to bear all my weight on my left lleg.  My mom and dad do not believe me when I say I have actually done something to my knee. They believe that it is just the chondromalacia but I do not think so because this is not what I am used to.. Usually the pain is just an ache here and there.  But this is sharp and only when I do certain movements and constant when I am walking.  Any ideas???

[aaa]

Did you have any episode of your kneecap subluxing or dislocating laterally?  Is the pain around the medial border of the patella?  Also, is there any swelling?

[kknnhh]

There is no apparent dislocation or swelling and the pain is on the medial border. More towards the side

[LAS]

sounds like you have a medial meniscus tear.   Did you have any trauma such as a fall or maybe playing sports.  Maybe you should have an MRI to rule all of this out.    I know I was waking up at night when I had a tear in the meniscus with throbbing pain.   LAS