I'm feeling so scared right now. 

For the past week and a half, I've been experiencing a constant burning sensation around my bottom. At first I tried using some Uniroid ointment because I thought it was a thrombosed hemorrhoid again (I had one earlier in the year) so wanted to give that a try first. It didn't help at all and I then felt what I thought was a skin tag on the edge of the anus, I already have one quite larger skin tag which I've had for a long time, however this newest one felt a bit different to the other one. It's almost like there's a couple of layers to it and it's not a soft as the actual skin tag. I managed to look in a mirror and thought it looked like a wart, which shocked me because I was wondering where that would be from. It's quite sore now too and I think it has got bigger just in the last week. 

I contacted my GP (on Tuesday just gone, today it's Sunday) and explained everything, I was prescribed another ointment to try and help with the burning, whilst I waited for a face to face appointment. I was offered an appointment for yesterday (Saturday) with a GP at a different surgery, I took the appointment. I went in saying I thought it was a wart. He had a look and said he could see why I thought it was a wart, it has a slight wart look but he said it's too large for a wart and doesn't have the characteristics of one. He said he wanted to refer me to the colorectal department and it would be an urgent referral. He's concerned about what it looks like and where it's coming from, apparently the mucosal tissue just on the edge of the anal margin. He completely scared and shocked me with what he said, I really wasn't expecting that response. I don't know how I'm going to be able to enjoy Christmas given that I found this out on the 21st December and will obviously have longer than two weeks to wait because of the bank holidays coming up. I'm so scared that it's anal cancer. I take Methotrexate and Adalimumab (biologic) for Psoriatic Arthritis and know that this can put me more at risk too. 

Any words of support would be greatly appreciated.

Claire