Is bellydancing hard on your knees ? My knees hurt like arthritis, since i have tried to learn to bellydance.?

I had fallen and all of my weight landed on my right knee, and then it took forever to heal.Fast foreward 6 years, and i found a book on learning how to bellydance.I hate to excersize, and so I thought that bellydancing might be a fun way to excersize and lose weight.So I had fun trying to learn, then one morning, I woke up and my right knee hurt and feels like it will buckle towards the back. I feel as if there is no support in the sides and the back of the knee. Then about three days later, the left one did the same. They still hurt even with glucosamine/msm/chondroitin pills. They hurt when i sit for too long and then rising from a chair. They hurt when i sit down from standing too long. They do not hurt much in the morning though, but they are very stiff. help !! Yes they are stiff too. Is this artiritis ?? I hope not, for I am going to college for CNA classes and then relocating to another state and I need my health. I also sit in a rocker as my computer chair, and so does rocking in the rocker aggrivate the knees,too ? I am told to excerzise, but if it hurts, then to stop. it hurts to excersize, so i don't. I just walk as much as I can.

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It may be that, or just your muscles not being familiar.As your belly rotates it could be transferring your weight laterally and your knees are feeling themH-man