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⌈ Secret Post #4679 ⌋

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I just need to rant

[(Anonymous)]

Like five months ago my dad and I found a juvenile bedbug in our place. A week or two after that, I started getting itchy bites, mostly on my ankles. We turned the house upside down cleaning it, bought pheromone traps, threw out a bunch of stuff, and put diatomacious earth everywhere.

Dad found two more bugs, both very small.

I continued getting bites, very occasionally, usually 1-2 weeks apart.

We thoroughly cleaned my sleeping area again.

I’m still getting bites, usually 1-2 weeks apart.

This morning an exterminator came and did a check. She found two droppings (not two areas with droppings, two droppings total) and no other evidence of an infestation.

I am at my wits end. I do not understand what is happening here. How can we have had bedbugs for five months without there being more evidence than two droppings? The exterminators won’t even do anything for us until we can catch a bedbug to prove we have them.

None of this makes any sense.

Re: I just need to rant

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Do you maybe live in an apartment or condo complex, or take public transit? Or do things or frequent places where you could be being bitten away from home and/or pick up an occasional hitchhiker? I’m sorry you’re going through that, it sounds awful, and I hope the problem clears up whether or not you ever figure out what’s going on.

Re: I just need to rant

[(Anonymous)]

Yes to all of the above. But like, I only started getting bitten a couple of weeks after my dad found a bed bug in our apartment, and I'm still getting bitten, every couple of weeks, and it's five months later. So really, the odds are very, very strong this is just the initial problem persisting over time. Yet that doesn't make sense since it should be a lot more apparent after five months.

The only thing I can think is maybe our neighbor has an infestation and every so often a bug or two makes its way over here from his place? But even then, if they're coming over you'd think we'd have more evidence of them by now. It's so weird.

Anyway, thank you for listening and for helping me try to figure this conundrum out. :/

Re: I just need to rant

[(Anonymous)]

To clarify, I work in very crowded, public spaces, but I work in an entirely different location and with different people almost every day, so even if I brought home a hitchhiker once, the odds of it happening again any time soon would be pretty small.

Re: I just need to rant

[greghousesgf]

when I had bedbugs all I had to do is tell the exterminators and they just sprayed for them. the fact that the guys you're dealing with won't even do that tells me they don't know what they're doing, I'd go to a different exterminator company if I were you.

Re: I just need to rant

[(Anonymous)]

Where we live, they are legally forbidden from spraying unless they can confirm there's a problem. It's the same regardless of who you call. I don't know if it's to prevent the companies from scamming people and saying people have bugs when they don't, or if it's because the chemicals are pretty icky and shouldn't be used if it can be helped. But either way, they are legally required to have evidence of a problem before they can treat.

Re: I just need to rant

[greghousesgf]

shit.

Re: I just need to rant

[(Anonymous)]

Do any companies where you live do heat treatments? Heat is another way to get rid of bedbugs.

Maybe take apart your bed and go around your mattress edges slowly with a hairdryer. Throw everything you have on your bed into the dryer for an hour. Go around the seams of your furniture in your room with a hairdryer. If there are bedbugs, they should start crawling out to escape the heat. And sustained heat kills them (like clothes in the dryer).