nun

I've increase my mileage quite a bit this year and completed my first 3 centuries over the summer.
I've never suffered from skin rashes or break outs, but I did develop a hard spot on the inner
bit of my right buttock. I noticed it was tender down there so pushed and poked it and (sorry for being
explicit) got some blood coming out of the tender area into my butt crack.....After about a week it has now
completely gone, it isn't hard or sore at all.

What is this? A haematoma, a very bad bruise? Should I worry?

sch

Hematoma close enough to the surface to drain by poking (not I hope with a needle)
is usually pretty blue looking and the blood will be mostly clotted and come out
looking like grape jelly if you open a large enough hole. An abscess is more likely
to drain under the circumstances you describe, and is usually on the pink/red side.
Abscesses tend to recur and and are spread by clothes, fingers and a favored reservoir
is the inside of the nose. Not for nothing did our late and knowledgeable curmudgeon
use the epithet 'nosepickers' (and my favorite: carpet smoker). So if that was
really pus, which can look pretty bloody, especially when coming from a hard to see
area, you are at risk for further such events. Nobody knows what to do to prevent this
but clorox is a pretty good sterilant for clothes etc, but getting rid of a newly resident
population of staph is really hard.

nun

That sounds like a good (or bad) explaination. The area drained easily by just pushing on it.
Maybe my long rides caused some deep tissue injury that got infected. I'll break out the "Baby
wet ones" and put my shorts through a few extra wash cycles.

biffstephens

A friend of mine just got what sounds like what you got....he got pills for his....the doc said something about infected sweat glad or something like that..

Oh and the pills worked....they are ge.tting way smaller....he says you can barely see them.

nun

That's good to hear.

My thing was different it was below the skin. I actually think that I've found out what it is, its "Weavers Bottom" no joke or ischial bursitis. It's an inflammation of a sac around the sit bones cause by prolonged pressure and repetative motion, duh cycling...... I'm pretty sure it wasn't infected as it wasn't red or hot and the stuff that came out of it was a mix of blood and plasma, very watery like what comes out of a blister you get from a new pair of shoes. Has anyone had something similar? Does it come back?

Richard Cranium

Gee whiz, why can't it be a "boil" or a cyst? And popping it released a mix of blood and lymph fluids. If indeed there is a "hard" nodule left behind - yuk yuk - get it? "left behind", then it is more rightly termed a "calcified cyst."

Most likely all veteran long distance cyclists have many calcified cysts buried all around their Ischial Tuberosity. Many are left over from previous boils and infections. Once in a while, conditions can re-irritate them to the point that they become reinfected and large again.

Perhaps these "cyst sacks" do eventually dissolve, but I don't think so, they just get squished around and usually are not noticed.

nun

Cyst, inflamation, bursitis.....there seem to be lots of subtley different ways the body can pool fluid in tissues.
Bottomline (errrrg) it didn't seem to be infected and has resolved itself, I'll be bummed (errg again) if it comes back though