Bakers cysts

[Puzzled]

I seem to have decided to fall apart in the last couple of months.  My Rheumatologist apt is not until June as she is so hard to get into.  I am seeing her because my Rheumy left for another hospital.
I have 2 Bakers cysts which have decided to act up.  Is there any particular danger with them popping.  They are huge and I cannot let my GP drain as first off she refuses to use a fluoroscope as she has drained tons of cysts before.  I had her try one a long time ago and she hit blood and didn't come anywhere near to draining anything.  I now find out I'm the only one she has seen with cysts in the back of the knees and she usually drains a small area on the side.  Since she uses a small needle she thinks she cannot hit a vein or artery.  I won't have her touch anything without a fluoroscope, but I expect it will take an appointment with an Ortho?  I know if you have the fluoroscope that it is not hard to to do and I have a the previous Rheumy drain them as well as a hospital and somewhere else.  The new Rheumy wanted to set me up for knee operations and I'm not having anything operated on at this point.  Whatever the location these things are must be fairly tricky as I know I had an Ortho say he would not operate (I was not even expecting that as an option) because of the likelihood of an artery or vein being hit.  I found someone to drain them.  My massage gal thinks she can keep them fairly open working on them if she can start without all the fluid.  Anyone with some knowledge on these things?

Thanks

[Joe S.]

The tones from this website have done well with cysts in the past for several others. Maybe they will help with you.

http://www.chakraforce.com/Tonations.html#177.

The period is part of the web address. It was my first set of web pages. Using them a gal in Texas was able to eliminate her cysts in 4 days. She played the tones more then recommended. The tones are 30 seconds long and each needs to be played for 3 to 5 minutes in the alphabetic sequence. I had mad a special sequence for her in 2003 as an mp3. You can put the tones together in a play list and have them on your phone or mp3 player.

[vrystaat]

It's better to have someone drain these with imaging. A radiologist can drain them with fluoroscopic control, or using ultrasound. You should perhaps have a CT scan of your knees to judge their size.
The contents can be straw colored or blood stained. If it's large, it could recur, and need a surgeon to remove it. Only a small operation, but it is rarely needed. Careful diagnosis is needed because other disorders must be ruled out e.g. a popliteal aneurysm. The underlying cause e.g. osteoarthritis needs to be treated.

[Puzzled]

Joe, where do I find the tones and what do I play them on?

Vryatt,

The cysts are large and I have had them drained before.  The steroid injection doesn't last long.  The Ortho I saw when they first occurred said in no way would he remove them as he was too afraid of getting a vein or artery.  I was hoping that just getting a script and having them drained at the hospital would do it but this sounds a bit more complicated.  So maybe I will have to see someone with more knowledge on things or at least explain what options are available.  All I know is I keep getting if one ruptures I am to tell ER that it was a Bakers cyst so they don't go looking for a blood clot.

Thank you

[SjoDry]

I have one acting up as well. I had a shot of cortisone that helped for a couple of years. My rheum your just said to ice it 3 times a day.

Good luck.
SjoDry

[Puzzled]

Vrystaat,

I apologize for not completely answering your reply.  I was under a fair amount of pain and that seems to make me not catch everything I should.  A fluoroscope is definitely needed.  My GP insisted she could do it without a fluoroscope as she had done so many.  Not only did she not get much fluid out but later on I find out that the type of cysts she removes are on the side and mine are dead set in the back of my knee.

So after getting another script so I could go to the hospital I did get things drained but it took over one huge syringe to remove the fluid per leg.  I have tried the ice and these are the weirdest cysts.  The icing doesn't last long but there are times walking or walking my stationary bike will take them down and then there are times they are just plain stuck on pain mode.  I have to find a doc who will write the drainage script as I have a PT that thinks he can keep it down once the original fluid is knocked out.  He is the second PT that said this would work only this PT seems to know what he is doing.

I have had the tests run and that was when I was told that it would be hard to find someone to take the cysts out as they are wrapped around so many things this surgeon said he would not touch they cysts.  I have not had anyone tell me what the cause is at this point.  I have had really bad luck with surgeons so I am quite gun shy.

Again, sorry for not writing more earlier. 

Wow, SjoDry, to have a shot last so long must have been so nice!  I'm so glad to hear that.  I don't seem to get along with steroids at all.  They just don't work. 

I think I got all the left over parts when I was put together!    Feel better soon.

Joe I am going to have to have my husband help me with the tones.  I just need other things to quit going out on me.

Thank you all.