knee scope

Both of my knees are bad. I had one shot of SynviscOne at 6 month intervals. Worked for about 2 years. Now I switched doctors and he recommended Hymovis - two shots per knee at one week intervals. It seems to be working much better. Insurance/Medicare will cover the shots every 6 months. I am not in much pain and hope to put off any knee replacement surgery as long as I can walk. I'm 69 and average size and very active.

We are lucky in Canada as these shots will be free.

I have severe pain at times behind my right knee. I've been told it's a baker's cyst, but could it be a bone spur? I don't have a lump that describes the baker's cyst, It is extremely painful when I move my knee a certain way but at rest, it's fine, I have osteoarthritis in both knees which are both on bone, and planning to have TKR in about a month. Just curious. Also, can this cause leg swelling all the way down?

"I've been told it's a baker's cyst" by the doc? My Mom had one years ago, but it was deep in the tissue and we couldn't feel it - they found it with ultrasound.
Seems an unlikely location for a bone spur, but I suppose it is possible, or it could be referred pain from a spur elsewhere. I get shoulder pain at times from a big spur in my elbow.
The swelling is more likely from a cyst than an spur. You could try lying with your legs up the wall to drain the fluid back to your abdomen, when it can be absorbed and excreted. Massaging the leg with a firm stroking motion can from ankle to above the knee while it is elevated can speed the process. Also, have you tried keeping the leg elevated when you are sitting?
Just a few ideas.
Sue

Thank you, Sue. I appreciate your help. I'll surely try my legs on the wall etc.. I do massage my leg often but not from the foot which I'll try that too. I just finished 20 sessions of therapy for my knees for upcoming surgery and still have pain in that knee. Like your Mom, the pain is deep in the tissue and right in the joint of the knee. I'm not sure if I have a bone spur elsewhere. I also wear elastic stockings and also have a large custom brace on that knee because I am very knock-kneed. I do sit in a lift chair with my feet up which helps. Thank you. so much.

I get a painful knot behind my knee that goes away with rest. It happens when I have been doing a lot of squatting on my job. Eventually, it cramps my leg up, starting in my calf and radiating up to my groin. Resting for a few minutes causes the knot and pain to dissipate. My doctor suggested therapy. The therapist said nothing was wrong with my knees. I do have Osterioporis and Degenerative back disease along with sciatic nerve pain. This is not radiating down my leg but starts in the calf and radiates upward. I've been doing therapy with improvement. However, after a strenuous day at work, I developed severe sharp pain in my calf. I couldn't bend my knee without shooting pain. The knot did not appear and hasn't. I asked my doctor if my knee was fine what could be causing the painful lump behind my knee. His conclusion was a possible Bakers cyst. Could the cyst have ruptured causing the shooting pain?

I have a bakers cyst behind each knee, I get everything you are saying. I can feel the one behind my right knee, dont know what to do about them?

Good evening @durelle and @hmccarth5. The Baker's cyst is only there because of a condition that needs attention in the knee. The first thing that your clinician will do is drain it. That works for a little while and then it will come back until the underlying condition is surgically removed. I had quite a large one before my second TKR last summer. And then, I never saw it or felt it again.

If you want to try to control yours, you might try what I did while waiting for surgery. I asked my MFR therapist to keep it small enough to not cause pain and discomfort. She was able to do that and even taught me how to move the fluid up my thigh so that it could leave when I urinated.

Good luck with getting rid of it. Has any one else had their Baker's Cyst treated in another way?

May you be safe, protected, free of inner and outer harm.
Chris

To move it up to urinate, sounds so wrong.................