Hey guys, need member here, and have a question.  First a little background.  I am 28, 5'11" and about 215lbs.  I started running for two reasons, 1 to get healthy, and 2 because i am considering the armed forces.  I still have plenty of time before i could be sent off for basic, so that is why I am starting now.

I started my running about 4 weeks ago.  I started out with a mixture of running and walking a mile.  My knee pain didn't start untill one day I was out at my parents house and ran out there.  Their neighborhood has a fairly steep hill going down the drive way then another hill back up, then the rest is flat.  I did this day aprox. a week after i started my running.  I didn't run down the hills (going or coming back), but I did partially jogged up the hill.  Just to help with confustion, when i say run, I never ran at a fast pace, it was more of a jog...  During this run, I didn't encounter any knee pain during or after the run.  the pain didn't start untill the next night, I went running again.  Again, this was a combination of running for about 2 minutes and walking about 2 minutes (the time varied, as it was I would walk after i couldn't take it any more breathing wise, and when i caught my breath, i would run again.)  The pain wasn't a very harsh pain, it seems more like muscle pain that would go away.  I took this as a warning not to run the next night (which was monday).  I went to run again tuesday, but every time i took a step running, it was a sharp pain, but i could walk fine.  That has been 2 weeks ago This comming tuesday.  I haven't run or walked since.

now, to discribe the location of the pain.  This is on both knees, though the left knee is worse than the other.  The pain is slightly on the inside of the need, but not around the side, and at the bottom of the joint, more on the top of the bone (forgive me, i forget my human phys terms, but the shin bone).  all last week it was fairly hard on my knees even during work,  just to get off a forklift i had to ease myself down to prevent pain.  This week the pain has subsided considerabely, but i still feel some pain going down steps, and if i even try to run i feel it on both knees.

ok, so enough of the back ground, if there is any questions to explain more detail, i will be glad to add more, but to my questions.  As of this moment, I really can't visit a Dr. (wife was laid off), does anyone have any idea what this could be and how to remidy it????  I have been iceing both knees for 15 mins then putting a heat pack for 15 mins and swaping them out for about an hour or 2 a night, plus i have been taking ibprofin every 4 to 6 hours (it was about the only way to get through last week at all). 

I am very anxious to get back out and run.  Any help would be great guys.