Some doctors are telling me that I have folliculitis while some are telling hidradenitis suppurativa. How can I know what's the actual problem? Is there any difference between the symptoms of the two to identify the same? This infection is recurring on my axilla. Doctors are giving antibiotics again and again but then it comes again.

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