Hello, thanks you for taking the time to peruse my question.
For the past couple of weeks I have had a small, slightly raised, red patch of skin on the underside of my foreskin near the tip. It doesn't seem to be blistering or peeling as I have been treating it with vitamin e ointment (which i apply to my glands after every shower as to facilitate movement of my glands in my foreskin and lesson the development of wrinkles as the glands grow and shrink through the day).
I masturbate regularly and usually use a natural/non-irritating cream or ointment and have never seen something like this before.
The vitamin e seems to just keep the red patch moist and shiny and doesn't seem to be healing it.
I do have some cortisone .5%/canesten mixed cream but am so paranoid about applying steroid cream on such thin skin as it is and then getting under the foreskin and sitting there covered for a period of time.
I also have a patch on my left thigh, this one is dry and will scab and fall off, above my pelvic bone that I am treating with that cortisone and it seems to be shrinking, getting better. This one stated out small and got larger.
I am a picker (OCD) and have little small patches of dryness from what I have picked on my body. Yet, usually they would just heal, now the pick marks seem to turn into dry spots that take longer to heal. I have no idea why this has started to happen.
I am not sexually active with other people, have super hygiene (OCD :P), don't own any pets yet I do take care of my parents dog when they travel but my parents don't have any of these skin problems.
Im thinking irritation, but then why is it so localized?
Any information would be fantastic, and if it sounds like it needs some sort of prescription cream or ointment please let me know! Im hoping its just irritation and should probably give my foreskin a break for a week or so.
I work in a pediatric hospital as a cleaner (discharges), in the ER and am paranoid I picked up something while working.