Hi guys. I have a sore on the bottom of my penis. It is redish, with a sort of shiny looking, smooth top, maybe about 1/3 cm in diameter and it protrudes probably about that high as well. There's only one of them.It just appeared within a day and I'm really confused. I'm 15 years old, I've never had sex of any kind so I'm quite sure it's not some kind of STD or anything.Can anyone help?
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Sore?
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are you sure it isnt a pimple, or maybe an ingrown hair?
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Well it might be, but I have a few pimples down there and this one is 3x larger than any of them and it sticks out quite obviously if i look at it from the side.
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does it look like it is filled with any puss? is it over a hair folicle?
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No I don't think it's over a hair folicol. I don't know if it's filled with anything but if i squeeze the side it feels hard (and that's non-erect).
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It's really hard to be sure what it is from a description and you might need to see a doctor. One possibility is a sebaceous cyst, when a sebaceous gland gets blocked but keeps producing sebum and swells up. They usually feel like a hard pimple, deeper than usual. They go away eventually, but it may take a couple of months.
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Ouch, a couple of months? I think I'll wait a little while first to see if it goes away any faster.
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You can try wrapping a warm moist cloth around it which, if it is a clogged pore, may open the pore and allow it to drain itself. You can't do any harm,soit's worth trying.