I am plagued by something similar. I get boils on my butt and upper thighs. Infected follicles according to the doc. Some get very bad. I am finishing dealing with the worst one ever. It got huge on the back of my hamstring and is still inflamed after 3 months. It is getting better. They put me on all sorts of antibiotics (which of course made me sick). Topicals too, even though they do not work for this.
What definitely helps is applying a hot moist compress to it. Also depending on everyone's particular curse that has responded, the staph bug that causes many of these things lives in your nostrils. I have been able to keep things under control by applying tea tree oil or grapefruit seed extract just inside my nose. Also, my best results from the warm compresses come when I mix colloidal silver with dmso and apply that before I put the heat to it. Then I clean it and apply grapefruit seed extract before I put a band aid on. Another thing that helps is that I found a pumice stone on a long handle to exfoliate the problem areas. BUT don't exfoliate an existing one -- it can make it worse. Use the stone to help keep things open and clean.
I have found that Masteron makes them far worse.