by buttgirl » 15 Aug 2007, 10:38
Ouch, that was my problem too, except I kept telling the drs it was an abscess and they kept not believing me. Now I have a skin tag, but I didn't then.
Bad year, I had one bout of minor discomfort from my skin tag. It felt raw and sore to the touch, almost like a rug burn in tag form. For me, that feeling went away by the next day, and I haven't had any problem with it since.
I guess one way for me to tell the difference between the abscess and the tag is that the tag's size has remained consistent, even shrinking slowly as the fissure is healing, while the abscess would be hard and painful one day, reducing the next, hardly painful the next and then worse than even the next day--the abscess was definitely more irratic.