I have had a hard lump on the left side of my groin for 2 years. When I first got it, I squeezed it, and it popped so hard, and all kinds of puss came out of it with blood. The doctor then told me it was an infected hair. It is purple in that area, and never really healed. Every once in a while it gets more swollen than usual, and when I squeeze it, it squirts blood out, but from a different opening that is further left than the purple knot. What is it?
Hi! Good morning. I am Chat Doctor answering your query. Even though it requires a physical examination of the groin area and the patient as a whole, from your history, it seems to be persistence of some kind of chronic infection in the area. If I were your doctor, after a physical examination, I would advise you for a complete blood count, ESR, V Chat Doctor.  If the reports of these investigations come out to be inconclusive, I would consider a biopsy of the tissue for a histopathology and the final line of management would depend on the reports. Till then, I would advise you not to fiddle with the lesion, and take proper care of it with regular