At night I just would try to distract my mind and tell myself they weren’t around so I could sleep.
I continued to find them on the walls and on the sheets. I saw all the signs with the blood smudges and all that.

I would still have to come to my house to get clothes and what not but would leave stuff in my car or not bring things into my room because i didn’t want to transfer them to my house where my sister, her husband and 2 young children and my mom and brother live.

I decided to stay home last night instead of going to his house because he had to be up early for work and I had a test to study for. I woke up this morning and started studying when I looked to my left and saw one crawling up the wall!!!!! I was so furious that they are now in my bedroom at my house. I don’t even want to go over to my boyfriends again. The worst thing is, My mom is kind of a hoarder and if they travel, I feel we will never get rid of them. I am just super upset right now and want to know what I can do to get rid of them from my room! Please help!

Well my mom did that, and lets just say I haven’t set foot in my room for over a week now. I am on medicine because my anxiety is through the roof. I told my mom to toss the damn bed, that i didn’t care if she treated it the way the pest control guy told her too. I cant sleep on that bed again. I am just praying that my mom killed it all and their not coming back. Now when i go out and come home, i have to use a hair dryer, take a shower all before i feel totally comfortable to relax. Yes my phobia is really bad….

There are special heaters that are designed to heat a room to 120+F and then hold it there for a few hours. Seal the mattresses so bugs can’t get in–then fire up the machine. Why heat it for a few hours? Bugs hide in a wide range of cracks and crevices–and they can be *deep*. In order to kill the bugs, the entire piece (mattress, lamp, chair, whatever) has to be 120F *inside* as well as outside (think of it as “cooking” and you don’t want a “raw” center–because guess where the bugs will be hiding). After a few hours, everything in the room should be 120F–and all bugs dead. THEN turn off the heater and air out the room.

If you just want to clean a single item (a fabric chair or some small stuff), then a heat gun (hot hair dryer?) will work–it must get REAL hot and that kills bedbugs virtually instantly as the air passes over the fabric and heats it up very quickly. Be sure to get under AND inside a fabric chair (such as a recliner, lounge, etc).

First thing we did was take all our sheets and blankets and wash them in hot water and dry them. We also stood up our beds and sprayed everything down with alcohol. We didn’t have any nests in our mattress but they were all around my brother in laws mattress and box spring. They were also behind some fabric tapestries he had hanging and several in his curtains. After getting rid of everything where they nested we vacuumed the rug and sprayed the floor and any cracks in the wall we could find. We then returned our beds to normal (neither of us have a bed frame so its just the mattress and box spring on the floor) brought back the sheets, blankets, and inspected the pillows. How happy was I the next morning when I woke up with 3 on my forehead, 4 around my eye making it look like I got punched in the eye and 7 going from my chin to my neck. Kinda like the bed bugs were saying “pshh” and laughing in my face.

So the next night we again stripped the beds propped them up and vacuumed again. Then we took raid for reaches and a spray made more bed bugs (can’t remember the name) and sprayed down the mattress, box-spring, and around the whole room. Then we let it sit while we slept downstairs in the living room and my daughter stayed in with my boyfriends mom. Three times we had to go get anything out of the room within 3 different days we would find a different bug crawling around the mattresses. So we got 3 plastic covers (we couldn’t afford one for my box spring) and covered up out stress, and his mattress and box spring. I even ironed and steamed the rug and my box spring. After a couple days we came up and slept that night and of course I woke up again with more bites, and of course all over my neck, back, and legs.

I am sick of it. The embarrassment, feeling dirty all the time. I am a college student, a full time mom, and now a crazy person who cleans all the time, cries everyday, and has nightmares all night about this. Also, my boyfriend just started night shift so I am getting his harder than ever.

I have covered the whole outside of my mattress with clear packing tape (no double sided tape around) and then flipped some facing out to act as the sticky barrier. Then on what I didn’t double side a coated with a layer of Vaseline. I am praying that this will work. I also coated the let’s of my daughters crib with Vaseline. I don’t know how thick I should coat but I’m hoping this works. I am just looking for advice on what to do next if this is another fail. Someone please help.

At the time I didn’t know how well alcohol would work so I bought hotshot flea and bedbug spray (could have saved money using alcohol). After spraying down the mattress and washing the sheets I thought the battle had been won. Long story short if I don’t tare apart the bed every day I end up getting eaten alive my husband has never gotten bitten not once but they do live on his side.

I am planning on getting a bed bug sheet but money is tight so until i can i will be using alcohol. A few weeks ago we found out that our local movie theater had been sprayed for bedbugs just two days after we visited and the theater had been sprayed in the imax and two other theaters. Now when ever i go there i feel as though im going to bring home tons.

You probably had just picked it up from outside. Bed bugs are awesome travelers, but if you were moving around in your home, then they probably would remain in hiding until you settled down or went to sleep. Basically, they like to bite the unsuspecting sleeping or resting person but will settle on your skin to travel if need be (i’m not sure why this is).

To be on the safe side, I would go ahead and enclose the mattress anyway. Its healthier for you and if you do see another one or bites, they wont be able to live in your mattress and may be easier to get rid of.

If you do see another one, before you unpack and have all of your stuff set up, get a few big bottles of 91% Rubbing alcohol and spray spray spray down the baseboards, outlets (be careful here of course) and any other crack and crevice in your new home. 91% alcohol kills them ON CONTACT only, but since you just moved in, and the BBs probably arent in your stuff, they have to be hiding in the cracks and crevices or your previously unoccupied home (if you do have them).

Good luck!!

They had infiltrated our bed frame and had grown in size. We attempted to spray again, but they would not die! Finally, we gave in and have a exterminating service coming out next weekend to take care of all of the rooms in our home. Even though the infestation is only in our room, all other rooms could/can be infected. Therefore we decided to just take care of the whole house, including having the cat bathed since we heard that she could be a host for them.

We have no idea where we got them, we are very neat and clean people….but they have arrived. We have so much to do such as washing the curtains, sheets, pillows and bagging up all clothes, books, dvds, and setting them out in the shed for 3 days in order the heat to kill anything that may be on them, prior to the exterminators coming out. Hopefully this will help someone.

We did our research after the first outbreak, and in hindsight we should have called someone for help initially rather than taking this into our own hands…since we didn’t get rid of the bed bug infestation like we thought we had!