I have one total knee replacement and waiting for nerve to have other knee replaced. I was walking down only 1 porch step and began to walk when I heard a very loud pop and I felt like someone had shot me in the back of my knee. Everyone heard the pop and I could not put any weight on my foot for at least 5 minutes. I began walking around slowly and for days my calf ached like I had been ran over by a truck. Someone gasped at the black bruise running from behind my knee to my ankle. All seems well now. I never called my Dr but at my last visit with my Arthritis Dr he explained what had happened....Baker Cyst.

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Almost two years ago, I developed a Baker's Cyst behind my left knee. I believe it was caused by improper use of a treadmill, though I suffered no particular injury. It just developed and one day I discovered this lump about the size of a ping-pong ball behind my knee. I had the lovely experience of going to 3 doctors for help and being told that it was just one of those things I would have to live with, after all, I was getting older, blah, blah, blah. They all said it could not be healed without surgery, which has its own dangers. I refused to believe them and decided to treat the cyst myself. I got a support bandage for starters and kept the leg elevated whenever feasible. Then I began gentle leg exercises like knee extensions to strengthen the overall leg muscles from ankle on up and to stabilize the knee. I did both legs, for good measure and yoga for overall body strength and flexibility. It took a year of concerted effort, but it worked. The cyst is now the size of a pea and no problem. I'm just more careful these days.

I ended up having mine surgically removed as a minor. There was no initial pain as it wasn't caused by trauma but was caused by extra tissue in the joint. Over time before removal there was tightness in my calf and wearing heels was not an option at all. Now that it has been several years my knee is 100% again and I am able to do whatever I wish, swimming, wearing heels, dancing ect.

I am a 41 year old female and noticed a knot on the side of my right knee that was very painful. I couldn't get any sleep for the pain was so painful. I was going crazy there was a vein going up the center of it, so my friends advised me to go to the emergency room in fear that it was a blood clot and they diagnosed me with a Bakers cyst. I have not found anything to help relieve the pain the ER advised me to go see my regular DR. so that he could follow up on it and that I probably will need to have surgery. This has affected everything that I do day to day.

My mother phoned me two nights ago crying out in pain about a terrible pain in her knee, I called an ambulance for her because she was hyperventilating with the pain she was taken to emergency and admitted over night the pain was so bad she had to be given morphine, after x-rays it showed it was a bakers cyst that had ruptured they drained the fluid from her knee, and she was discharged the next day, I have never heard of a Bakers cyst before.