Internal anal lump , hard about pea size under the skin

Terrified is how I feel at the moment . My anus felt a bit sore after wiping , don't know why but felt around in cas if I'd "torn it " and felt a pea sized lump under the skin about 1cm inside sphincter. I've never had piles , no bleeding , not itching either. Feels movable like a cyst but joined on , not swollen like a pile , rubbery like a lipoma . No one available on the chat lines , surgery naturally closed over xmas , can't just talk to anyone , no support , nowt. I've emailed my surgery for a request for an appointment but after the xmas break I am now going out of my tiny mind with worry. I can't turn up at A and E can I? Especially with this covid explosion. I feel desperate I only found it this evening and cannot put it down to anything else other than cancer , it just does not resemble any descriptions of internal piles , can anyone please help ?

  • Do get it checked out.  But how you are describing that, it sounds like the pile i have from time to time. I had mine checked out too and it was a pile. I actually had two. Mine was under the skin and sore from time to time. In the meantime if it is really bothering you, get some of that anusol ointment and see if that helps. The itching tends to come after the pain if it is gonna itch.

    My piles have never bled.  Just feels like someone booted me up the backside, and the itch comes once the swelling goes down. But the suppositories or cream is good for that and the pain.

  • Morning ProfBaw, Thank you for your reply. I do sincerely hope that it is a pile but after another good "rooting" about ( sign of things to come methinks ) do feel it's too "firm " to be just a vein , you can "ping" it  - back into its "fixed" position , although it moves. I have heath anxiety that's never been diagnosed and am a total hyperchondriac . I went to have a "pulsing ovary " investigated about 6 and a half years ago , had a negative ca125 test but then suffered an "pulling sensation" one evening at a family gathering . When I got up the next day this feeling had abated , and since then every twinge or feeling of gas in my pelvis lower abdomen has been signs of ovarian cancer .Stupidly I have been too terrified to have any further tests but am sure I can feel 2 possible lumps when I bend over sometimes , I'm going to ask this time when I'm at the doctors for further tests as I'm out of my brain worrying now that this may have been latent for years and  now spread to my backside . I'm 62 and just tick all the boxes for cancer. Sorry for all this other info , but I'm going to enquire now whatever happens with the rear end , I'm losing my sanity with worrying . Thanks for replying and trying to help. 

  • I found one of these four days ago, nurse said its a perianal abcess and got anti biotics for it, seems to be going down, she's checking it again on weeks time x

  • Hello and thank you for replying , that's really weird , I had an abscess about a week or so ago and it's just healing up on the front of my lady parts , it was really big and full of gunge which emptied . I wonder if I still have infection in me ? Oh well I suppose I'll find out sooner or later , just have to wait to be looked at , oh joy. Once again thank you . Can I ask what alerted you to the fact that you had it ? 

  • I wiped and felt a bit sore so had a feel, looked in mirror, the usual, I'm an absolute health anxiety freak, constantly prodding myself, nurse was amazing, said its actually quite common. Its not sore anymore and feels like it's doing down slowly, it's right on my anus and terrified me, never had piles so I had no idea what it was. Hopefully you can get into doctors and get some antibiotics x

  • Oh you're lucky my lump is just inside about a 1cm in , I am totally hypochondriac I'm making myself feel physically sick with worry , haven't slept and hardly eaten. I wonder if you can have one right inside? Thanks again for your reply .

  • Hi ZG321,

    I saw your post on the supraclavicular lymph node (I have my left one up too) and wondered if perhaps it is linked to the perianal absess (infection)? Just a thought?

    x

  • I think it could be, lymph node swole up after day 2 of covid booster and then perianal abcess appeared week later, nurse suggested it could have been brewing for a while. Hoping bloods inc FBC and CRP Protein bloods will rule anything out. I hate having these awful thoughts, hard to rationalise and explain to people how I feel. 

  • I think so, mines half in and half out, about 1cm too. I'm the same, haven't enjoyed Christmas at all. 

  • I do feel for you too. My Christmas is totally shot to pieces , haven't done anything except freak out. I'm so tired with no sleep and hardly eating and I haven't even managed to see a medical person yet , so lord knows what I'll be like when that happens. I hate feeling like this and realise that my mental health anxiety state is terrible , but where do you start to address this ? Drs are so hard pushed and it is seen as being a defeatist and just to pull yourself together. I feel I seem to find something wrong with me every day , I'm worn out with worry and stress. Poor you too.