Yep -- still have this weird lateral knee pain.

And I'm still trying to figure out what it is. Why haven't I seen the orthopedic surgeon yet? Oh, I'm in the process of getting there but there's so much bureaucracy it's going to be 2015 by the time I can see him again, and I want to ride my bike already dang it.

So those of you that have had IT band friction syndrome before, can you describe what it specifically feels like?

My pain is on the lateral part of my knee, but very delocalized. I can't pinpoint it at all, and it's almost like ghost pain because it feels uncomfortable and unstable more than it hurts. Imagine someone taking some sort of object and sliding it in between the muscles in that area -- it feels "full".

The best way to describe it is that when I'm almost at the bottom of the downstroke, the lateral part of my knee feels very unnatural. It doesn't hurt -- it's just in a position that doesn't give me a good solid feeling like my left leg does. I get the same feeling when my knee is at the deepest flexion going down stairs.

I'm able to bike on it for a while, but after about a week, I start to get a sharper pain. It almost feels like it's in the lateral ligament connecting my quad to the kneecap, and it radiates outward.

Any ideas? Thanks.