Thissucks42 on "I found them!"
Up until last night we had only seen one adult bed bug and hadn't been bitten much (a few times each.) I had thought they weren't biting my husband but then they bit him in the forehead after the first...
View Articlejlgdrd on "despondent and despairing"
thrown out 4-5 chairs including 2 recliners with another on the way out i am bipolar and this is affecting my mental health-seriously at least 5 visits from pest control need a game plan this is a...
View ArticleMayphoenix on "Fighting on My Own - Am I Winning?"
Hi, all.Back on Aug. 1, one of my cats woke me in the middle of the night going after something on the nightstand. I turned on the light and found a bedbug. I'd seen enough reports on these things that...
View ArticleUKbugs on "New UK forum user - 3 treatments still being bitten"
I have been reading from this forum since July when our problem started. I'm in the Uk where we had an intensely hot summer. I also don't know if we got bed begs from 2nd hand bedside.cabinets I...
View ArticleMayphoenix on "THEY'RE BACK AND I'M READY TO CRY!"
I posted here before about how I went to war with the bugs on August 1, when I found evidence in my bedroom; I then found more in and around my sofa. I got rid of the bedsprings and got a metal...
View ArticleLosingit1011 on "Back after weeks of nothing?"
This is going to be long... but here is my story and I just need someone to tell me what they think. I have been using this site for advice/support since we found out we have bed bugs and I now feel...
View ArticleBbptsd on "Heat treatment fail"
About two months my daughter woke up with horrible rashbwith tiny bites arond her chest and neck area. We went to the pediatrician who wasnt sure if the rash and bites were from spiders, fleas, dust...
View ArticleSlythr on "Landlord refusal after PCO checked ( live bugs trapped)"
Hello, I'm in a situation I;ve been battling bedbugs in my unit for about a month now, and knew I was getting bitten by them even though I was finding no evidence eg. blood stains fecal matter etc. I...
View ArticlePinkhat on "Chronic anxiety not coping"
Hi so my bedbug story has been going on for a year on and off. To cut a long story short we finally got the local council involved (I'm in the UK living in a council flat)So 3 floors below us they have...
View Articleeatenaliveindtla on "Bed Bugs in the City"
I have been dealing with a bed bug situation for the past year now.I live in Downtown Los Angeles and live in an expensive apartment building with wood floors.I never thought that this could be an...
View ArticleC333 on "How do I tell the landlord?"
I recently moved into a new apartment a little over a month ago, and I've been getting bites that were definitely not mosquito since day 1. Initially, I just shrugged it off, because it's FL and it...
View Articlereoccuringnightmare on "4 years later. PTSD, need support."
This cannot be happening again. Long post, but I just need some support.My first encounter with BBs was in July of 2015. I moved into an apartment after my parents decided to move out to the island and...
View ArticleAdale on "Bedbugs at work"
Hi I work as a housekeeper in an apartment building, where 4 of the apartments are holiday let's and the other 3 have long term tenants. I do a weekly clean for the tenants and I clean the holiday...
View Articlekeyboard2019 on "I have bed bugs and I am overcome with sadness"
I have bed bugs and I am overcome with sadness. I have been getting bites for months in my bedsitting room, after returning from Christmas break, the bed bugs had a feast on my body and I realized...
View Articlekeyboard2019 on "Depression due to Bed Bugs"
I am experiencing severe depression due to the bed bugs in the house where I live. I have been receiving bites for a few months but I did not think much of it. After a 3 week Christmas break, I felt...
View ArticleSolo Geo on "Bought a new house that had guests"
I bought my first house for me and my family and was very happy. Then my youngest daughter started getting bite after a bout a week of moving in. My wife and I cleaned the place top to bottom...
View Articledonehad on "Progress, mattress sizing, Temprid, waiting for PCO"
I posted earlier that I suspected I had an infestation. Most bites and blood spots. Cat was getting bites too and more blood spots near them than me. Just changed the sheets, overdue. Don't have home...
View ArticleKatienobug on "Someone anyone please help me!!!"
I posted a few days l ago about how I tried to move into a rental home and found out after being there less than 24 hours that it had bed bugs. Thankfully we only took our bathroom stuff, some of my...
View ArticleLosingit1011 on "Unpacking after months reinvested?"
We were treated for bed bugs last summer. We used a reputable professional who had 100% success rate on single family homes, which ours is. Our last treatment was in September. We have not had any...
View ArticleOhNoo24 on "Please help! 3rd time around"
Hi everyone! I was hesitant to post a success story up until now, and now I know why.So, we've had our last of 4 treatments every two weeks at the 30th of November. Ever since then, I've had some...
View Articlefightingthefight on "Just discovered that the 60°C wash at my launderette is...
I've been fighting bed bugs for months, but they have kept on coming back. Part of the treatment is of course to wash my bedding and clothes at 60°C. I've had to keep on doing this. But today the...
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reasurranceneeded on "Send virtual hugs"
I feel like I'm going crazy. My boyfriend of 6 months admitted he has bed bugs, and there have been no signs they were brought to my house until 2 weeks ago. There were blood spots on his pillow, but...
View Articlebuggies on "long time infestation and being kicked out"
Hi all, (I think I posted in the wrong category on accident so I'm trying again, sorry for the double post) So this is a bit of a long story. I found out I had bed bugs about a year ago. In my country...
View Articlelosing_it on "1 bug in new area, 2 months after heat treatment"
Some Background: Back in February my brother found beg bugs in his second floor bedroom when he started getting bit. We think he may have tracked them home from a Nov trip to NZ where he stayed in...
View Articletiredfredi on "Are they gone. My bed bug hell."
I’m 44 and this is my first experience of bed bugs. We’d been on our first Airbnb trip and I noticed at the house the carpet had fleas, to cut a long story short ..we started getting mysterious bites...
View Articlescaryterry on "carpet beetles are RUINING MY LIFE, please help me"
Hi all.Last summer, I started getting what I now know to be carpet beetle dermatitis. I thought it was BBs at first and had a dog come, two PCOs, and nothing was found. I started seeing some larvae...
View ArticleMircat9000 on "Aftermath: Lingering Fear"
Shortly after my very first post here, my fiance and I moved away from our bedbug infested apartment, quarantining and treating anything we bought along with us. We dried clothes and bedding for an...
View Article23valleyforge on "Friend selling infested bed frame on Facebook!!"
So yesterday a friend calls me to see if she can sell her bed frame in my garage sale. I'm like, sure. She brings it over, my husband and son and I help her unload it and put it in my garage, and then...
View Articlesadghostie on "10 years of bed bugs"
I have no one else to tell. I am so stressed and depressed.My grandfather owns the house. He obviously has no interest in fixing the problem (and his room is the absolute worst. Dead and live bugs...
View ArticleKnowthyenemy on "Bitten by something at work and having a panic attack"
I work 14 hr days, three days in a row. Was sitting near the end of my shift where I sit all day and felt an itch. Looked at my leg and saw two welts forming.Since then I've been fending a panic...
View ArticleBBDespiser on "BBs attracted to.... catnip?"
So, I didn't even know what to file this one under, because it's so odd. Horror story is pretty fitting though. I'll start off by saying I didn't see it myself (nor do I have any desire to go dumpster...
View ArticleTim m on "My story / rant"
This story is a mix bag of horror and success. My story starts in 2010 just got my first apartment with my wife (girlfriend at the time) about four months in I started getting these nasty welts on my...
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hatebugs100 on "Desperately need help!"
Hi everyone, like most of you I'm at the end of my rope with bedbugs. I've never felt so defeated and overwhelmed! I had a baby 4 months ago. When my baby was a month old, I was lying down with him at...
View ArticleTrulyamess on "Losing hope"
I’m going to start this by saying that I never knew how big of an issue bed bugs actually were until I discovered them about six weeks ago. At the time I had only found eggs, so we did the usual vacuum...
View Articleunstoppableanxiety on "Family is refusing to take advice and treat bedbugs."
So, I'm 17 and I'm living with my family. I currently don't have a job so moving anywhere isn't an option for the time because I wont be able to chip in for rent anywhere for the moment and I dont want...
View ArticleJaded48 on "Bed bugs are ruining my life!"
4 months ago my son had bed bugs in his room we treated I didnt have the money but made it happen a few weeks ago I've been getting bites I pleased with my property manage of my apartments to order an...
View ArticleShallaO on "Fear, stigma, exhaustion!"
About a month ago , after sleeping on my sofa coming off night shift , I'd wake up itching. Because we have fire ants bad here , I just assumed it was ants. My job demanded I wear long sleeves &...
View Articleinternallyscreaming on "three-stage-dust-spray-blitz-extravaganza"
So we move into an amazing apartment in February that, according to the neighbors, had bed bugs and, according to the landlord, got a routinary pre-move in spray. Come last week of April, we see the...
View ArticleImstressedanddepressed on "I’m done..."
So... it’s been 2 years. It all started when I was 17, my senior year of high school, one day I woke up to find a bedbug in my bed and Immediately I began to freak out. At first, I had no idea what it...
View ArticleThissucksformyson on "I'm an idiot and my son is being eaten alive... so sick...
My 8 year old wanted a "big kid bed" and so stupidly I purchased a used frame, but not mattress and never really gave it a thought. Purchased bed on Aug 3rd. Last week Tuesday the 13th he woke up with...
View Articlepampas on "bed bug story from Romania"
Hello!Three weeks ago I discovered a tiny little red creature in my bed (photo). It was 5 AM (Friday night) and I couldn't sleep, so I said to myself: this should explain the red bumps I keep getting...
View ArticleParrotlover on "Have bb & a parrot, need help"
We've been dealing w/bedbugs since May. We've practically packed away in space bags all clothing & we're sleeping on air mattresses. I'm vacuuming constantly, concentrating on baseboards. My...
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Laura07 on "My husband does not believe we have bed bugs (very initial...
Hi guys, I really need help and advice. I am very stressed and upset and about to give up on my house and my family.I am extremely allergic and reactive to bed bugs, while my husband is not. We had bed...
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anxietytothemax on "Is this a bed bug? HELP!!"
Hey yal. Im a very paranoid person over bed bugs & found this in my volcano bed bug catcher i got because im so paranoid. Its only ever got a giant cockroach in it before. Ive seen some bugs in our...
View Articlepleasestop on "Friend Came Over; Now She Has Bug Bites"
Aah, so, I realize that this is all my fault. I should have never let anyone come over when there was even the possibility of there being bed bugs still. The bugs are contained to my room (thank...
View Articlenyc-bedbugs on "Multi-Family Housing - At Mercy of Hoarding Neighbor"
I live in a NYC co-op building. We had a rough 2018 - brought in the dogs, eventually 10 apartments in all were found to need treatment. (A few apartments were found to have obvious infestations that...
View Articlethissux on "Great read - very educational case on infestation dynamics"
I came across this old case and thought it details a lot of interesting aspects of infestation...
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kslone1006 on "I used Diatomaceous Earth to kill fleas and now I don't know...
Hi everyone. I'm a mom of two and I'm expecting another baby. We have a kitty who wants to be outside 99% of the time so we let her go out (she's up to date on shots, she's fixed, it's a good...
View Articlebuggerboo on "Do I confess or conceal"
Firstly please let me say thanks for this network, I dont know where I would be without it. I have had bedbugs for three years now. I have spent hundreds on various treatments over the duration, but to...
View Articleonebugfreakout on "Vintage Infestation Dynamics"
So facing a potential bedbug problem, my mother retold me the story when she, as a teenager in eastern Europe during the 70s, faced the issue in my grandparent's old apartment. I thought the story was...
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