Chicken pox or shingles

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I cant get to see dr for a few days. I had chicken pox as a child. My sons school said it was going around but he has no rash. I have broken oit in what looks like heaps of mozzie biyes. Patches all over. On my legs waist and under arms and behind knees. They look loke mozzie bites. Im freaking out as 2 days ago i cuddled my 5 day old nephew. I told his mum to keep an eye out bit i feel so bad. Here is a patch on my leg. It doesnt look like google pics of shinglea but i thought u could only get cp once. I also only had the mmr less than a year ago

Shingles follows a nerve so is localised to one area - usually in a line so definitely not shingles. Anyway you can't catch shingles from chicken pox.

TBH it doesn't look like chicken pox either - no blisters?

I reckon you would be feeling pretty poorly with it too as an adult. I had at 15 and felt about as ill as I have ever felt.

Could it be an allergy?

You can get chickenpox more than once. Shingles usually erupts along a single dermatome, as it spreads along a nerve fibre, so you get a stripe or patch of it in one specific area of skin.
Have the spots become vesicles - little fluid filled blisters? It’s hard to see in your pic. If so, then it’s probably chickenpox. If not, could be anything, including insect bites.

That looks like neither to me. It would be really unusual for you to get it from school as well unless you worked there.

I was thinking allergy but not sure what. I havent done anything different. The rash showed up last night. I did have 2 bad belly aches last night.

They arnt fluid filled. Not yet anyway. Iv been under alot of stress and had a few panic attacks this week. Can u get rashes from panic attacks? It honestly looks like im covered in mosquito bites

You can become allergic to things over time.
Also have any of your usual products had a 'new, improved recipe/formula' ? Because that has caused me several allergic reactions in the past.

No nothing new at all

Stress reaction maybe. I get itchy breakouts when I'm stressed, and those places are quite typical. Think eczema.

Iv resisted the urge to scratch this is the same leg and its kind of blistery now

I had shingles earlier this year. As PP have said, it follows a nerve, so is generally in a line/localised area.

Also, the pain is immense, like boiling water being poured over your skin.

Sounds more like a skin irritation or allergy, perhaps a bit hive-like? Get it checked if it persists, even popping into your closest pharmacy and asking them to take a look if you can't get in to the GP.

That looks like hives from an allergic reaction to me. Have you got any antihistamines you can try?

No antihistamines but i think ill pop into pharmacy tomorrow and ask them. Its not paimful just itchy like a MF!!

Thankyou everyone for all your advice

Im starting to think its hives. Its looking more and more like them. Yesteday my daughter gave me a hibiscus flower im wondering if im allergic

You can get stress hives as well. Antihistamine is still your friend! Really cheap in any supermarket.

Defo get some antihistamines!

Could be Hand Foot and Mouth?

Antihistamines didnt work. Please excuse my fat gut and lovely childbirth scar.. buts its spreading all over my body. Belly, thights knees front and back under arms and now my breasts. Nothing is helping. Argh monday cant come any sooner. Pharmacy said it looked like hives but they should last not more then a day. Its been 3 days and getting worse. Iv had h f m before and it was nothing like this

So so itchy

Oh dear worth seeing a doctor maybe? Out of hours?

Looks like urticaria (hives). Are you getting raised welts if you scratch? You can check by scratching a letter into your skin (just a normal scratch with a flat nail, as if scratching an itch, not to draw blood or anything horrible like that).

If so, could be an allergy to a food or a detergent/other substance but could also be 'idiopathic' - basically unexplained.

I find cooler than usual baths help, perhaps with a sock full of oats as for chicken pox.

I've had hives in the past and they certainly lasted a lot longer than 1 day! Keep taking the antihistamines.

Keep taking the antihistamine.

Check any new clothes or washing detergents, shower gel etc. Bed sheets and towels are often forgotten when people try and work out what sets them off.

I changed washing powder 2 weeks ago. Delayed reation maybe? It is definatly raised when scratched. Drs tommorow its sunday here only after hrs is a n e

Yes, may well be. Especially as you may not have used the new laundered clothes andsheets right away.

Also, this definitely gets worse and spreads the more you scratch it. It's like a vicious circle. Try sodium bicarbonate baths, try a different antihistamine (there are usually at least two in supermarkets- loratidine and cetirizine.

And wear some clothes/pjs you washed in your old detergent. Don't forget sheets and towels.