My shins are itching like hell, why?

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It's just started this evening. I've not had any tight clothing around my legs. Not used anything on the skin. Not done any abnormal exercise, just a regular Sunday relaxing with a gentle walk. My shins are driving me crazy with a burning itch. Why?

Dry skin?

Also coming on to say dry skin, it's kind on common on shins for some reason

Central heating.

All of the above due to very cold air, plus woollen socks perhaps?

Outing myself as a bloke as I've meant to post this observation for a while now - it's this kind of weather that makes a bloke's shins go bald in an unsightly way. First time this happened I was in my mid-30s and the bed was next to the central heating radiator full on in winter. I figured out that was what caused it. Left with swishy bits of hair on my shins but mostly bald. It did grow back but it required moisturiser applied.

My skin's in good health, not dry at all. It's inside whatever it is.

Do you get hayfever at all OP?

Reason I mention it is that in the last few years when out for a walk I get really itchy legs (even when covered). It's something in the air.

Reason I mention it is because 1) you said you'd been for a walk and 2) I've just started getting hayfever symptoms in the last week.

I do get hayfever as it happens but I've had 5yrs of immunotherapy and they tested me for everything. I'm only allergic to one particular grass which hasn't seeded yet this year.

I had to give up using an electric blanket. It made the under the duvet bed space air too dry & my legs used to itch like mad.

Skin on my legs looked fine & I do moisturise every day so I couldn’t work out why my legs itched so much.
I stopped using the electric blanket hey presto my legs returned to normal.

Are your legs cold? I get itchy hives on my legs if they are too cold.

Chilblains!

Are you pregnant? If you are pregnant speak to your GP

I get extremely itchy shins a couple of days after shaving my legs

I had this after using a Venus razor. Something in the metal of the blades causes my skin to be unbearably itchy. I switched to a men's razor and it went away.

This week or so I had massive hay fever sneezing fits coming in from working in the garden, intense for 10 mins or so then forgotten about.
Some itch on my shins too, so who knows?
Not sneezing much now, unless I have a Baileys.

I get this and in my case it's urticaria. Hives basically. The doctor explained that at some point I'll have had what should have been a mild reaction to something - maybe a nettle or stress or heat - and my body produced an excess of histamine, so it continues to do this out of habit when there are certain triggers.

It's maddening itchy but to look at it, my skin is completely normal. What sets me off is heat, stress, tight clothes and shaving my legs but it's got much better recently - left a more stressful job for a better one.

Things that help are running a cold shower onto my legs, using tonnes of emollient, steroid gel from it drs and knocking back packets of cetirizine.

Feel your pain op.