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Help! Pus Bubbles on Hands!

I had asked before, but sadly received no helpful response. I started forming a breakout of pus bubbles all over my hands, which are painful and itchy. I’m not sure what the cause is. They look like they could be anything from warts, a form of eczema, or even shingles/chicken pox, but I was vaccinated before. It has been almost 2 weeks, and it seems like more are forming rather than going away, and sometimes when they pop, I proceed to drain them. I flatten them and take out as much pus as I could, but minutes later, it reforms and another pus bubble is there again. I don’t know what to do. A doctor said she thought it was chicken pox, but when I checked with other people, they said it’s definitely not. Help please!
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Have you consulted other medical professionals about it or just other people who have had chicken pox?  It's very important to get to a doctor (and even a second doctor if the first wasn't helpful) when you experience a sudden onset of a skin condition like this.  Even something like eczema can cause blisters- as you mentioned, and only a doctor will be able to tell you for sure what's happening.  ,

Being vaccinated for an illness doesn't prevent it 100% of the time- most of the time it does, but there is a chance you can still catch it.  Shingles is usually on the trunk of the body and it sounds like you are just seeing this on your hands, but it does start with you having chicken pox.  

I also wouldn't mess with the blisters- when you pop a blister it's extremely important that it be sone in sanitary conditions, infections can set in so easily after you have popped a blister.  
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