Oh man i’m seeing that this can be costly as well, no matter what you try, i am noticing from myself and some other posts, these little suckers do not like certain smells, Dracula doesn’t do garlic, these guys don’t do lavender oil, or eucalyptus.

I have some medicated anti itch creme that i slathered all over my previous bite areas last night and the only light i had on was my lap top, I’m thinking they didn’t like the medicated smell, kinda like a green tea smell, am i on to something??? I’m getting ready to take off on my first buying adventure, Ross’s dress for less has king size bed encasement made for bed bug fighting, for twenty bucks, that’s my first stop,then on to walmart to buy air mattress for myself and daughter, and the d e powder if i can find it there, the dollar store for spray bottles and dawn soap, and….where can i buy the D E powder at?

Sincerely,

Bedbug stalker aka vampire bug killer
ps…also going to buy the biggest bottle of tree tea oil or lavender oil i can find,at least thats a pleasant smell

I live in an apartment in South Florida. After getting bites which started just before Thanksgiving and of course was chalked up to mosquito’s or something else, it was confirmed by pest control three weeks ago that we had bed bugs. Probably since I had at least 10 of them in a baggie to show them that I took from the mattresses in two bedrooms and I told the office of my suspicions . We covered the mattresses right away with the bed protectors (even before they confirmed they were bed bugs). But once they confirmed we threw the mattresses out. Since apparently I am allergic to these bites because I welt up to the size of a quarter from each bit, it was driving me crazy. After trying every bug bite lotion on the market, Benadtyll, Calamine lotion, Caladryll, Hydrocritzone cream, etc II started asking around about what to use on these bites and someone suggested Desitin (diaper rash ointment). The bites on me usually last at least four weeks and I am even scared from them. But the ones I put Desitin on, I don’t think will scar like the others and definitely feel much better than the others did as they do not itch nor do they even welt up.

I also did a lot of research on what to use for the bugs. And someone mentioned that these bugs do not like clove oil. Since I am desperate to do anything, I bought some. Since it is so strong, I mixed it with baby oil and started applying to my feet and legs. I also put some in a baggie with water and soaked a couple pieces of wash clothes in it and threw those around the bed, under a reclining chair that I slept in and would get bites in. I also made a mixture of rubbing alcohol, clove oil and Eucalyptus oil together and sprayed that on the chair and couch this weekend. Since I started using the clove oil on me and even putting some in my hair, I have not been bitten (knock on wood) in a few days. I don’t know if it’s coincidence or the clove oil but last night was the first night I have slept in months without waking up (with a flashlight in hand, my new bed partner) at 3 am because I feel something crawling on me and checking the bed, sheets, pillow, etc. (I am currently sleeping on an air mattress). I refuse to by a mattresses until I see no more bugs. And now my husband is scratching and even found a bug on his pillow this morning (he sleeps on the couch), which he thought I was crazy using this stuff, but who know what really works.

This is the third week that pest control is coming out as I sit here and type waiting for him. I have the bug in a baggie to show pest control.

I have the couch and recliner turned upside down and every drawer pulled out of the dressers. We washed everything we own at the laundry mat, (20 triple loads the first weekend), packed most of it in plastic bins and put it in storage. Are living out of two plastic bags of clothes each (one for work and one weekend ware). I hope this nightmare will ends soon, but and skeptical that we will be completely rid of these things but I will keep my fingers crossed. Has anyone fought these things and won?

Thanks for listening.

Get NON POOL GRADE diatomaceous earth. Spread it all around your bed, on the side panels of your mattress, and in between the mattress and the box springs. Get a bed bug cover for your mattress and box springs.

The foggers will kill the bed bugs on a daily/weekly basis, and the diatomacious earth will kill them long term. Don’t bother throwing away furniture, mattresses, etc. It’s a war that will bankrupt you. Don’t hire an exterminator; they are costly and they don’t guarantee their work. They prey on your fear of the bugs.

You cannot kill these critters overnight. Fog, fog, fog, and use diatomaceous earth.

Slow and consistent is the name of the game. The foggers will kill any bugs that are alive, so they won’t bite you at night, and the diatomaceous earth will kill the new ones that hatch.

Now my two poor teen daughters are waking up to numerous bites all over. they’re ashamed, afraid, and covered with bites that look like they will leave a permanent scar. we’ve bombed, sprayed, washed, dried, cleaned, dropped powders everything. and no relief. my wife and my room still is being visited (still doing the 3, 4, 5am jump ups) but not Nearly as much as my daughter’s cluttered, clothing covered rooms.

We all feel so helpless with no end in sight. if a bed bug could personify itself into a man, I would go to jail for Manslaughter on account of his attack on my family. Self Defense. Except, I’m still not able to Defend any of us from these tiny insidious Monsters.

I’m totally freaking out, thank god my daughter was sound asleep. The last one I find is under her pillow, a female adult who obviously just fed. i didn’t know it at the time but the white pile next to her are eggs she had just laid. Total bedbugs I find that night was five all smashed with my sleeve. I tossed my shirt in the outside trash. my sleeve was so disgusting after that. next thing I do is start yelling to my husband to get up out of bed. i tell him I found bed bugs and show him the left overs of what Ive smashed. But he doesn’t know anything about bed bugs so he thinks I’m over reacting.

I tell him to pick up our daughter n take her to our bed but before she goes i take off her pjs n leave them in her bed. Its late so I decide to wait til morning to treat this.i go straight to the internet that night to find out more but not enough cause that morning I go buy hot shot bed bug killer and start spraying the bunk bed she sleeps in. and that is a big no no it just spreads them out more. that was my first treatment I did.

my second treatment was taking half the bunkbed apart. both times I found bed bugs after the treatments. before my third treatment I’m a bit more knowledge from reading and talking to exterminators. this is 3 weeks later and I start my third treatment.

during these 3 weeks I’m up all hours of the night starring at my daughters bed while shes sleeping. I hated having her sleep in her bed so a few times a week I would have her sleep with us. i didn’t want the risk of removing her entirely from the bed and the bedbugs traveling to my room and biting my newborn son. oh I forgot to mention my daughter is not allergic to the bedbugs so there was no way to know if she was getting bit. that makes it so much harder to know if the bedbugs are gone.

my third bedbug treatment was 2 weeks ago. i emptied her room put everything in bags. i had purchased a steamer and steamed every single crack in her room .i steamed the floor which is wood, took me hours to finish. The next day I took apart her bunk bed I found most the bedbugs in the holes where the screws go. i never would have thought they could sqeeze in there.

Took me two days to stream the bunk bed I should say fry the bunk bed. i would hold the steamer for minutes until I heard the wood cracking. I’m still not finished steaming all her stuff but her bed is back up. I powdered her room with DE.

its been 2 weeks of waking up all hours checking her bed and our bed too, just today I was able to lay back on my sofa and not be afraid that there is a bedbugs waiting to crawl on me. allthough I never found one in any other parts of the house I’m still afraid I might.

as of today no sightings of bedbugs I hope I didn’t just jinx myself. I pray they are gone one good sign is that my dog doesn’t run under her bed and go crazy I knew he was catching their smell. my daughter cries that I don’t lay with her anymore in her bed and read bedtime stories. I found out I got the the bedbugs from the mattress I got my daughter that’s another long story. these bedbugs have really made my life hell! I will always be looking out for bedbugs everywhere I go.

ignorance was bliss!!!

Update:2/14/2012
Update on my bedbugs. Its been 35 days and no sightings of them. i actually got up the nerve to sleep with my daughter I wasn’t 100% comfortable but I was able to lay with her n read a bed time story. I’m still not in the clear but I’m hopeful. One thing I wish I did differently was listen to the pco when he said to empty her room n take apart everything the first time. i thought just spaying would do the trick but I learned the hard way.

We found 1 bed bug alive n 1 dead at the head side of the bed. There were a lot of dark waste around the area. We then wrapped up the mattress n took it out to the garbage. We then checked his mattress n found approx. 6 large bugs (i assume to be adults), we discarded it. We’ve washed n dried all clothing bedding, n bagged it. We’re sleep’n on the couches in the living room.

Do these pest follow u to feed? I found 2 bites on my wrist today. I assume from the couch. I’m embarrassed, frustrated, n want to cry!! I’ve read about DE on some of ur post. oddly we checked the couches b-fore hand. Can i purchase DE from homedepot or walmart? SOMEBODY PLEASE ADVISE ME ON THIS SITUATION!! I’m on WITS END… Without a lot of $$$$. DEBUGMEPLEASE!!!!!