what is this spot that appeared on the skin of my leg?

[Yepitsmeimback]

I have this spot that looks like a hickey on my leg and there are spots like it and it doesnt itch and it cant be shingles i have had chicken pox before when i was younger im scared help

[AnnieBrooke]

It probably isn't shingles for several reasons. One is, shingles are really itchy (also sometimes really painful). Two, they come on your trunk at least initially, not your leg. Three, they are usually symmetrical on your body, like a fern branch.( If you were to get them on one side of your spine you would usually also get them on the other.) Four, they don't usually happen until you're past a certain age.

But just for your info, you said "it cant be shingles i have had chicken pox." (You didn't mean because you had the chicken-pox vaccine, did you?)  If you have had chicken pox, you probably should know that having had it does not protect you from shingles, it only keeps you from getting chicken pox again. Only if you had been vaccinated against chicken pox (before you ever got chicken pox) are you free of the risk of shingles.

Anyway, don't freak out. Even if you had shingles (which you really sound like you don't) they are no death sentence. Many people just get them once and it isn't particularly painful and they never get them again. If you are specifically worried about shingles (possibly because you know someone who does get them and finds them painful?) next time you're at your doctor's, get a chicken-pox vaccination.  The doc will tell you that it is not guaranteed because you've already had chicken pox, but there might be some preventive value in doing it anyway.

[Yepitsmeimback]

Thank you and yeah i think i also got the vacine after i got it

[AnnieBrooke]

If you are seriously worried about getting shingles some day, you might check your medical records next time you are in to see your general practitioner to confirm that you have had chicken pox already and also your assumption that you have been vaccinated against chicken pox. Doctors usually don't vaccinate someone once they have had chicken pox, because they are taught it will not have any effect once the virus has been in the person's body. Usually the only way people can only get vaccinated for chicken pox (if they have already had the illness and the doctor knows it) is by specific request, and assuring the doc that they know it might not help. If you never had that conversation it's possible you haven't been vaccinated against chicken pox. (Unless, of course, you never had chicken pox and got vaccinated against it in the usual course of childhood vaccinations.)

[specialmom]

Don't be scared. Our skin can get lots of this or that and it is NOTHING 9 times out of 10.  You are young, likelihood of this being anything is very low.  See if it goes away.  So, I have to ask this . . . do you have some anxiety sweetie?