Help - does this sound like shingles?

[whalebag]

Was out at a family member’s today and the littlest one had chicken pox. Face had scabbed over but there were two blisters on his foot and wrists that hadn’t scabbed (but weren’t weeping)
I spent the day with the child - couldn’t avoid it as I was there iyswim, but really gutted they didn’t tell me as I could have declined

I have a poor immune system and could do without shingles! Since coming home I have had a really horrible ache in one arm as though I’ve done ten rounds with Tyson, the same arm is itchy. Rest of my body is fine and I feel well in myself.

I’m also anxious so I don’t know if it is my anxiety looking for symptoms. Help

Chicken pox can't cause shingles.

I could be wrong, but I think the incubation period for shingles is the same as for chicken pox, a couple of weeks. So you wouldn't have symptoms if you've only been exposed to a child with chicken pox today.

Of course! t00dle00 is right, you can't get shingles from chicken pox, it's the other way round. So you should be fine OP.

You don't catch shingles like that. You have to have had chicken pox in the past. Maybe years later, if you are run down, stressed or just randomly, the herpes zoster (chicken pox/shingles) virus can be reactivated and you get shingles.

It's similar to cold sores. The first infection can be mild, but once you have caught it you can get a cold sore outbreak when run down etc.

So don't worry, you can't catch shingles from chicken pox. You can catch chicken pox, though. Incubation is around 14 days. You can catch chicken pox from shingles too.

You can't BUT a chickenpox outbreak is often followed by an increase in shingles cases in people with a compromised immune system.

But it needs weeks not hours to develop.

Thank you all this was very helpful :)