For the past five and a half months, I've had pain on the outside of both of my legs just below my knees. It isn't all the time, but I feel it going up or down stairs, or if I'm in bed and I use my legs to reposition my body closer to the foot of the bed. I'm pretty sure this started when I was in a play and I had to do a lot of physical stage work (sword fighting and dance). I exacerbated the pain when I was in a show immediately after that was intensely physical which made that pain and my knees excrutiatingly painful. I went to the dr, who recommended me to an orthopedist. She took xrays and did an mri and they found nothing. But the pain is still there. I thought maybe it was shin splints, but I've never had them and I don't know how long it takes to get over them.