Suggest Treatment For Joint Hyper Mobility

I suffer from joint hyper mobility and have my whole life. I’m a 22 year old male student that lives a predominately sedentary lifestyle (though am in relatively good shape because I do plenty of non-taxing exercising). Though the hyper mobility was more fun (look what I can do!) than it presented a problem when I was younger, within the last few years, I’ve recently started to experience joint popping and pain in various places. Most notably, my right femur pops every time I take a single step ascending stairs, and often when I’m just walking across flat surfaces (even carpeted ones). Although I haven’t experienced pain concurrently with the popping, I’ve been experiencing radiating pains in bed at night right where my femur pops. I’ve just recently had an X-ray, moreover, which came back “unremarkable“. I’m quite certain, therefore, that it has everything to do with my joint hyper mobility.



My question: I’m wondering what I can possibly do about the various pains I experience as a result of my hypermobility. I’ve tried the gamut of OTC analgesics (to no avail), and have asked both my former primary physician and a rheumatologist to treat my symptoms, but was refused help by both. On top of other disappointments with the medical profession (and they are many) I’m losing hope that I’ll find a doctor who will give me more than a “Well what do you want ME to do about it?”. At this point, I’m starting to think I was better off going back to suffering in silence, as depressing as it sounds.



So who should I see/what should I do at this point? Thanks.