New Question About Skin Tags

Hi again and thank you to all who have given input as to my previous post (IBS or Crohns?)  I have been doing a lot of reading, and I have an appt. with the GI tomorrow - I'm a nervous wreck about it, really fearing that the end diagnosis is going to be Crohn's, the more I read.  Now I have a new question - can you explain/describe skin tags, and how they differ from hemmeroids?    I have had "something" down there for several years, and just assumed I was weird that way (ha) - They are kind of clustered around the anus, and about the size of small earlobes I guess - they do not hurt, and do not bleed, except I do have small "splits" which I'm fearing are fissures - they sometimes bleed, (the splits) small specks of blood on the tissue when wiping, and they burn when I have D. Other than that, there is no pain or bleeding from the "lobes".  I am just wondering about skin tags, if this could be what I have had all the time, just didn't know it.   Thanks for your help - I am glad I found this board. 

That does sound like skin tags. Do a search for "skin tags" and you should see a post by pb4. She posted links to a website with actual photos that many people found very helpful.
Good luck!

The surgeon who did my hemroid surgery told me I had anal warts caused by HPV.  This was before my Crohn's diagnosis.  Skin tags are skin tags.  The only way to tell for sure if they were caused by HPV (according to that doctor, and granted he was a serious butthead) is to biopsy them.  If you have Crohn's, that's most likely where they came from.