I have had chronic pain on the exterior side of my left knee for over 4 years now. I have payed close attention to look for triggers and can never find anything consistent. I have brought my concern up to multiple doctors over the years and I have been told “You are big loose weight”. I have gotten x-rays done and they all show up normal. After x-rays the conversations end and I get told to "hit the gym"The issue is that the more weight I loose the more painful it becomes. I have roughly lost about 100lbs with a lot more to go. Most of the time I can temporarily remedy it during a workout with wrapping it. On days like today no matter how hard I wrap my knees I have a lot of pain.
Is there any data that I can gather or things that I can research to have a more productive conversation with my primary care physician. From googling knee anatomy my pain is right at the middle of my LCL. I have no injury that I can recall that would have cause the issue initially. I just want to be able to consistently squat so I can make some gainzzzz.