Hi dr. I'm hoping you can help me out trying to guess at what going on with me and a potential treatment.
1. I am having redish inflamed hair follicule on my inner thigh, they are red and no pus just looks irritated. They tend to go away pretty fast ( day or so) unless I try to squeeze it to get something out of it ( nothing comes out) and it leaves a red brown discolorization from squeezing. Next thing I'm getting is on my outter thigh from under butt cheek down behind thigh what looks like inflamed goose bumps that get redish enlarge and stay that way for day or so. If left alone looks like deflates and is normal, again if bothered it seems to swell bigger and if squeezed enough will break skin, bleed and it tends to take for ever for scar to leave. Once in great while I will get a little white head very tiny and usually seen in where hair is growing out from thigh other than that no pus.
What does this sound like to you? I see folliculitis online but no itchyness, pus, pain, etc for symptoms...only thing it gets red it seems.
What do you reccomend for treatment. My doctor gave me antibiotics that seemed to help but didn't do much. I've been using neosporin on legs for topical antibiotics and antibactarial soap and vitamens to help.
I would like to know what I can use to help what ever is going on and with brown discolorization
Last thing, I'm worried this is linked to hiv because I see online its stated its a subtle sign of infection, in your experience what kind of folliculitis is it and what point of hiv would this happen. This so called symptoms have been on going for over year now.