Most doctors no longer recommend niacin for first line cholesterol control â except for people who can't tolerate statins. In those people, the benefits of niacin may outweigh the risk of potentially serious side effects.
The bulge creates a feeling of tightness behind the knee as well as stiffness and swelling and pain behind the knee and calf. For many, this pain intensifies when flexing or fully extending the leg. Often, these cysts go away without any treatment.
Signs of the fact that at the foot of developed Bekkerâs cyst behind the knee, the following: the appearance of pain and stiffness when driving in the popliteal area (leg more difficult to bend); the appearance of swelling in the popliteal fossa, the ball reaches the size of a ping-pong table;