Knee pain

lswain1970

First I will say I realize this is not a place to get medical advice. Basically I am looking for personal experience/suggestions from anyone who has experienced this. I realize if things don't improve I will need to visit my doctor, but I am hoping this is something I can recover from without needing medical care.

I recently added intervals of running to my exercise program. Basically one minute running/jogging followed by 2-3 minutes of brisk walking for about 30-45 minutes. Prior to that it had been strictly brisk walking for my cardio.

Its been about three weeks and about a week ago I started having pain on the inner side of both of my legs just below my knee. As best I can determine based on my research it is tendonitis.

I have dropped back to walking for about 4 days now, but the pain is still there...even when walking.

My question is do I really need to stop walking/running altogether in order to get past this (really don't want to do that), or would using knee braces and keeping up with ice and NSAIDs between workouts allow me to eventually recover.

Just looking for anyone with a similar experience who may have some advice.

thanks!