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Frickin' bugs!
I've had many nights of thinking that I was losing my mind due to feeling like something was crawling on and biting me, only to flip on the light switch and see nothing there. I even had a friend come over to inspect for bedbugs(he works at a hotel and said he's seen plenty of them before and knew what to look for) and he said he didn't see any signs of them. I was watching tv the other night when I felt something biting my arm. I quickly pushed up my sleeve and lo and behold, a goddamn bed bug. I ripped the fucker off and flushed it down the toilet. When I told my landlord about this, she said that we've been experiencing bed bug infestations since December. It turns out that my entire apartment building complex is infested with the fuckers and each tenant has to pay for bed bug removal on their own. Great. I bought some diatomaceous earth and sprinkled it all over my bedroom and entire apartment. I'm getting a steam cleaner tomorrow and bed bug covers for my and my daughter's beds and the couch. I hate bugs! It grosses me out. I keep my place clean and I'm not a slob but I read that in apartment buildings, all it takes is for one bed bug to get here and they can travel and spread from apartment to apartment. I'm not looking forward to shelling out $300+ out of pocket for a professional to come here. I feel like just throwing everything in the trash and moving out. Has anybody ever had these before?
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Yes!!! I own a home and one of my friends brought them in. He bought a 1200 bed and a 2000 mattress but was too cheap to buy the frame so he got cheap plywood and built one himself. They were in the plywood. I spent 600.00 getting them out of that room, only to have them get into my 12,000 couch (gifted by a friend, I didn't pay for that) and my 2,000 mattress. I had to throw everything out but the couch. For some reason the heat treatment worked on that. I guess because they could not burrough inside the frame.
Look at your lease and see if there is a provision for this. If you do- in fact, have to pay for it you are in for at least 600.00 per room for the heat treatment (unless it is cheaper in your area) and will have to replace all box springs and mattresses as well as fabric furniture. If there is not, go to court and make the landlord pay for it and reimburse you for your losses.
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Ewww....
Besides the fact that it will cost a lot of money to resolve this, if the WHOLE APARTMENT is like that... wouldn't they come back after wasting tons of money???? Never-ending problem. It would just happened again and again, bugs upon bugs, and the landlord doesn't fix it himself, and not everyone can afford to fix it either.... and they start infesting the food in the fridge, the closets, the carpet....
And what if it goes in your ear, and then lays a ton of eggs... I couldn't sleep in that place. I'm sorry that you're dealing with this. And you're sleeping, so you wouldn't know it, until one day they start marching out of the ear... their little legs creepy-crawling against the eardrum.... no, no, couldn't do it.
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HA! I dealt with those little fuckers a few years ago, and worst of all it first took me many months to figure out what the hell was wrong at all!
I wasn't about to tell the landlord--the manager of this old mansion divided into apartments does a great job, but she is neurotic and a total anal neat freak, and we already have had an antagonistic relationship where this kind of thing is concerned. If I let her, she'd be up here inspecting the place once a fucking week even without the damned bugs. No way in hell! And it would have been a weeks long ordeal with her up here every fucking day had she known about it.
I am actually a real slob, but I draw the line at bug infestations!
However when I finally figured out what they were and read about them, I was shocked at the degree of severity of measures required to eradicate them. I tried several methods, threw out my mattress and a couple chairs, went through months of hell with big welts and horrible itching, didn't dare tell anyone for fear they would flip out on me (one girl I did tell did flip out mildly and wouldn't come near me at work, etc.).
Finally I BEAT them, and without having to go through all the ridiculous drastic steps I read about, or shelling out a lot of money. This is how I did it...
I made myself the bait, and turned my sleeping area into a giant trap!
}:D}:D}:D:D:D:D;D;D;D
Having finally thrown out the mattress, I used inflatable mattresses--because they can't climb on them easily, and cannot nest/lay eggs in them like regular beds. I did go through a few of them, while I figured out the strategy--they are really not made for more than a few weeks' use at a time. And I poured great piles of diatomaceous earth all around the bed, leaving no gaps at all that they could get to me through. They are apparently drawn irresistibly to our exhalation of carbon dioxide. So they had no choice but to crawl through the diatomaceous earth trying to get to me, which will kill them (though it does take a while). They couldn't climb up the inflatable mattress sides, so I got some relief from the bites at night. Had a few bites in daytime from my one chair, but less and less as time went on, and I also periodically poured rubbing alcohol into all the little cracks and crevices they were hiding in (it was a wooden chair).
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Oh, please DJolene you watch too many horror films, they DON'T lay eggs in humans
Jesus! For cry freaking eye.
OP, look on CDC.gov/parasites/bedbugs.html
There's lots of info on there, that's factual.
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Also, for bites use Campho- Phenique, @ any drug store. Also tea tree oil.
On Amazon, there's a soap & cream called Ditch the Itch.
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Ugh, sorry to hear you are dealing with this. Unfortunately bedbugs have been making a come back in a lot of urban areas in recent years. Double check the landlord tenant laws in your area and see if you are actually on the hook for paying for this. Where I am pest control is something landlords have to pay for, they can't just fob the problem off onto their tenants. Also if bedbugs are a problem building wide, then the landlord is going to have to treat the whole building in a coordinated fashion. Just having the tenants treat their own units in a piecemeal fashion isn't going to get rid of them, they will just move into adjacent units while one is being treated and then come back.
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Thank you all for the info and tips. My floors of my entire apartment is covered in diatomaceous earth. My daughter is staying with her grandparents for now. Apparently the bugs like snacking on her at night even worse than they do me. I can't believe I found some in her wig that she uses for dress up. These bastards are ridiculous! I have diatomaceous earth all over and around our beds and on the mattresses, beneath the zippered mattress covers so any that are stuck in the covering will die. I smeared petroleum jelly on the bed legs and couch legs because I read that the bugs won't be able to walk through that. So far I've found a few dead bugs. I'm hoping this is successful.
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I hope & pray you can get rid of 'em for good!
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Protip- in Snow Belt states you can kill the bedbug in furniture by storing the pieces in a shed or garage that is unheated over the winter. The freezing cold apparently kills the eggs & the adult bugs.
& I know people use dog flea shampoo on themselves for lice infestation...it probably works as a body shampoo treatment to remove them from hair & skin.
I had to deal with bedbugs in a hotel room I was in about 15 years ago. Thank Dawg I didn't manage to bring them anywhere.