Pain at back of knee

[Witco]

I am about 3 stone overweight and in great discomfort today with a pain at the back I'd my right knee. Any ideas? I haven't been exercising, apart from walking to and from work (nothing new). It feels swollen and sore and I haven't had this before. Thanks!

Gah! I'd = of!

Does it feel kind of watery behind? Like there's a cushiony pad? I get this a lot, especially in the evenings. If I drink a lot,(water, I mean and sit with it up or with one of those very sexy tubigrip things on and then wee a lot it goes down so I put it down to a very non scientifically diagnosed water retention on the knee thing....

Dp (used to play footy so a bit more technical) always tells me that's rubbish (which it may well be) and it's a tendon which is swollen.

My ankle on the same leg does the same occasionally.

Just remembered, I did have it X rayed about 10 yr ago and the doc said there were bits of knee breaking off and floating round or something but I wasn't bad enough to have to actually do anything about it apparently. An old age thing.

Thanks Just, no it feels like something is swollen but it doesn't look particularly swollen. I've never had pain at the back of the knee before. I can walk on it but it hurts. Better get it checked out I suppose

JustBecause - yours sounds like a Baker's cyst. Google it, and see if it rings true.
Witco - not enough detail, but you could safely leave it for a few days and see whether it improves with antiinflammatories first (assuming you are able to take them eg Ibuprofen)

I had a painful soft lump and suspected a thrombosis. GP went through the list of signs from his book and I had all but one of them- so said it wasn't. . I think it may have been phlebitis, which is inflamation of the vein behind the knee.
It did go away on its own.

LMT- oh, thanks for that, that does look a bit like mine- not as big mind!

I did "dislocate" it when I was playing squash yeeeears ago so that might have been when it all got damaged in there.