This actually sounds like a pilonidal cyst. They are abscesses that can be caused by a lot of sitting, or frequent sitting on a bumpy ride (horses!) I had one, they're excruciating. I had horrible pain in my tailbone but I'm such a klutz that I just figured I'd missed sitting in a chair and nailed the armrest instead and bruised my butt and couldn't remember. Then one day I felt a tickle going down my buttcrack.. figured it was a hair because I had long hair at the time and every once in a while I'd end up with a piece falling down the back of my britches. When I checked it out, though, it was wet with a mix of blood and thin pus. I freaked the hell out. It turned out that for me, it wasn't that big a deal. The doctor left it open to drain on its own and I took some antibiotics and put neosporin on it. It took a long time for it to go away, but it did eventually and hasn't come back yet. (It's been about 5 years).
You do have to be careful with these, though, because for a lot of people, if left untreated the abscesses can get immense. I'm talking, major surgery requiring the abscess to be scraped of so much tissue to get it clean that you wind up with a softball sized hole in your lower back and out of work for a long time.
I would go see your GP and ask him/her about it. I don't know how they'd be able to tell if one is there if it hasn't broken the surface or made a visible lump (I had no lump), but there must be some way.
Whatever it does end up being, though, I wish you luck with it. Butt pain is truly a pain in the butt in more ways than one!
You do have to be careful with these, though, because for a lot of people, if left untreated the abscesses can get immense. I'm talking, major surgery requiring the abscess to be scraped of so much tissue to get it clean that you wind up with a softball sized hole in your lower back and out of work for a long time.
I would go see your GP and ask him/her about it. I don't know how they'd be able to tell if one is there if it hasn't broken the surface or made a visible lump (I had no lump), but there must be some way.
Whatever it does end up being, though, I wish you luck with it. Butt pain is truly a pain in the butt in more ways than one!
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