Painful right knee

Photographing Pain, originally uploaded by Professional Recreationalist.

I have no choice. I will not run today, nor tomorrow nor the day after.....not until my right knee sorts itself out. Today the knee was swollen and I felt a tightness from the knee down. The ankle also looks suspiciously thicker. And I generally feel a little bit miserable. Oh yes, there's an occasional ( but annoying) shooting pain in the right knee join. NO obvious triggers except maybe certain positions and when it happens, I walk like an OLD lady.

ps the odd thing is, the LEFT knee is the one which looks swollen but tis the right which hurts like hell

running shoes

running shoes, originally uploaded by Anjan Sarkar.

I used my relatively new ( explanation later) nike free fun shoes for my last two runs. And guess what? No knee swelling nor pain. Am happy. Nike free runs give minimal support. My initial runs resulted in severe shooting left knee pain the day after. I changed to new balance with a thicker sole and the pain disappeared. Lately, I've found this thicker sole runs less enjoyable and decided to chance it. Now, my options have increased from 2 ( new balance shoes) to 4 ( additional 2 free run shoes) to choose from during any run.