Are you taking any new medications in the last eight months? This may be a "fixed drug eruption." which is a localized allergic drug reaction. Any chemicals, new soaps that you have been using on you or your clothes? (I would have expected the cortisone to have doe some good in both situations.)
I do not have any other ideas but I do think that a visit to a urologist is needed.
The urogynecology forum may offer some other thoughts.
Good luck.
S.A.Liroff, M.D.