Sometime last year my boyfriend felt a bump around his anus. He asked me to look at it, and I saw a small cauliflower-like growth. He said it was not painful nor was it itching. We decided to monitor it, but I got bogged down with work and I forgot about it, and he didn't bring it up again until last Saturday when he said it felt weird.
I looked at it and saw that it was a bit bigger than the last time I saw it, but what shocked me was that there were now approximately 10 more visible ones (most of them cauliflower-shaped), and when I asked him to relax his anal sphincter and I pulled it apart a bit, I noticed some tiny bumps (not sure if they were cauliflower-like because they were so small) going into the rectum lining as far as I can see. I don't know if these can be skin tags, or genital warts. What do you think?
Also after he had his stool, he noticed some blood on the toilet paper. (Two years ago, he had swallowed a small piece of lamb bone, after which he complained about anal pain for a few days. Then one day while he was taking a shower, as he was soaping his anal region, he felt something scrape his hand. He eventually pulled it out and found it was the lamb bone that he had swallowed some days before.) It was this apperture created by the lamb bone that he claims was bleeding. What can be done about this?
I'm trying to get him to go to a doctor, but he has this male macho thing about letting "any doctor 'interfere' with his anus". Can you please offer some advice and your opinion in the mean time?
I get a rash all over my body on top of that i get many of these small cysts on my inner thighs. I work 9 to 12 hours a day where I sweat constantly and my inner thighs are always chaffed. Is that why I get these cysts?
I think the rash represents chafing and perhaps eczema with resulting discoloration. A fungus would have gone away with the creams you used. Try over-the-counter (in the US) 1% hydrocortisone twice daily while awaiting a dermatological consultation...
...which will also be helpful to tell you what the bums are--probably just the kind of small cysts which are common on the penis. They are normal anatomical variants and do not need treatment.
Best.
Dr. Rockoff