Hello just read your post..  Please face the doctor, myself the sme as you notices changes a year ago, thinking its me age its heameroids not wanting to see doctors etc.. After trying many lotion n potions of the shelf, I finally bit the bullet.. Well shock isn't the word, squamous cell carcinoma was diagnosed from biopsy.. Now lead on to anal cancer of the anal verge within. Month.. Facing chemoradiotherapy next week for 4.5wks so please..  Make that appointment x

Hi if u don’t mind me asking wha colour was the lump I have a purple one an also a pink flesh looking one witch has spread towards my vagina opening I have docs tomorrow really worried 

Hiya,I have *exactly* the same thing as you, including the spread towards the vagina. Wondering what your GP said about this?

Hi

I am a 35 year old male and have exactly the same thing, it feels like a very hard, very tender lump like on the anus (pea sized maybe bigger), i often pass blood too, i know i have piles through pushing too hard but this feels different to piles as my piles are softer. I do not partake in any sort of anal intercourse, just constipation, i know all the treatments for piles im just worried if this hard lump could be cancerous.

Hi did you find out what is was ? I've woken up this morning with the same thing really hard lump on my anus and it's really painful I'd say a little bigger than a pea . It's got me worried !

No unfortunatly i have not had the courage to contact my surgery, i have combat ptsd and my anxiety is through the roof, my pain comes and goes but the lump remains there, i do have piles which it may well be that, do you have piles?

Andy, Did you ever get this looked in to ? 

I know you said you never found out what it was but did it eventually go away? I have a small hard painful lump(only get pain on contact, wiping cleanig etc) on the opening to my anus and like most i am worried about contact the doctors, eventually built up enough courage to call today to be told sorry there are no appoinments left call tomorrow, I am after a little assurance thats all.

Has anyone been to the Dr's about these lumps yet? My Dr's are only doing online appts so I don't see how that will work!

I, too, have a small hard lump. It's definitely not like piles.

I'm in my mid-50s and have regular bowel movements although they differ from one day to the next - never quite constipation nor diarrhoea though. I'm really tired at the moment, going to work then crashing out for the evening and just going straight to bed. Literally, no other life at all!

Keep well everyone. 

Hi all,

I've just found this chat. I too have a small hard lump and have only really noticed it in last two weeks as been too shy to even examine myself. I was prescribed ointment by my gp as assumed was a thombosed hemmerhoid but its not made the slightest difference so plucked up the courage for a gp exam tomorrow. Im dreading it as I'm such a prude but I will let you know what they say. Mine too is blue/purple and sometimes feels like it goes away only too reappear later in the day. Its there every day. Its feels like raw nerves when I touch it but I've not had any change in bowel movements or bleeding. I did abuse a lot of drugs and alcohol when I was younger though so I've always worried that I might have damaged myself back then. I also exercise quite a bit with weights so I was kind of hoping it might be caused by that. Its making me uneasy though, esp when you you Google things. Worst thing you can do but you can't help it! 

Hi all,

I've just found this chat. I too have a small hard lump and have only really noticed it in last two weeks as been too shy to even examine myself. I was prescribed ointment by my gp as assumed was a thombosed hemmerhoid but its not made the slightest difference so plucked up the courage for a gp exam tomorrow. Im dreading it as I'm such a prude but I will let you know what they say. Mine too is blue/purple and sometimes feels like it goes away only too reappear later in the day. Its there every day. Its feels like raw nerves when I touch it but I've not had any change in bowel movements or bleeding. I did abuse a lot of drugs and alcohol when I was younger though so I've always worried that I might have damaged myself back then. I also exercise quite a bit with weights so I was kind of hoping it might be caused by that. Its making me uneasy though, esp when you you Google things. Worst thing you can do but you can't help it! 

Hey how did you get on at your doctors app? I have the very same thing as you even down to the feeling of the same pain. I haven't contacted my gp yet i just can't face the fact that i have to show these certain parts of my body off to him/her its so embarrassing but the pain is becoming too much everytime i have bowel movement or a shower/bath as the water absolutely stings....

I am. 50 yr old female and have just noticed pea size hard lump around anus, I'm terrified as I have taken a picture and seen similar pictures online which are anal cancer. No ther symptoms apart from extreme fatigue