Today, three days after finally having a bed to sleep on, I woke up with multiple bedbug bites. I can't use my blankets, wear any of my clothes and it's back to sleeping on the floor for me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I discovered I have bed bugs. I have nowhere else to sleep and I won't be able to afford a new mattress for at least a year. I'd better get used to these giant welts. FML
Today, after three visits from exterminators and another from a steam cleaner, I still have bedbugs. FML
Today, after being moved to three different employer-provided apartments because they all had mold and electrical problems, I requested a bigger bed. The bed they delivered had bedbugs. FML
Today, my girlfriend and I moved back in after over a month of couch hopping and $2,000 of heat and chemical treatments for a chronic bedbug issue. I just found bedbugs on my legs. We've used all our favors and have nowhere to go. FML
Today, I discovered that my bed has a flea infestation. I discovered it after sleeping naked in it for about an hour. FML
Today, it's the third day that I can't sleep. Somewhere in my room, there's a mosquito craving for my blood, and every time I'm about to fall asleep, I can hear it flying around. I'm covered in bites, even in places that barely see the daylight. FML
Today, after finally going to therapy for anxiety like everyone wanted, I discovered the itching feeling that kept me awake at night was actually caused by a bedbug infestation. FML
Today, I woke up to something crawling on my leg. Thinking it might be a spider, I jumped out frantically to check. The good news: it's not a spider. The bad news: it's a bedbug. My apartment was just treated for them. FML
Today, while working the graveyard shift at my hotel, it felt a little chilly, so I grabbed a blanket out of the box we usually store old blankets in. Twenty minutes later, the live-in maintenance man casually remarked that those blankets are all infected with bed-bugs. FML
Today, despite putting all the food in the fridge, taking all the rubbish outside, cleaning the house top to bottom and setting up bait, we're still dealing with a bloody huge ant problem. I've now got a rash all over from being bitten while I sleep. FML
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colby6666 43
Call an exterminator. Same thing happened to my friend and he resolved the problem quickly.
marctdiaz 13
They just wanted to be your friend:/
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unluckycharms69 6
Buy a new bed. You have a computer/phone to complain about it on FML so figure out what your wants and needs are.
codalicious 16
Is OP stuck naked in their apartment or are they just s wearing clothes they got from before the infestation?
BBeffedmylife 28
Are you absolutely sure it's bed bugs? A few months ago I started getting bumps that I for sure thought were bed bug bites. I even had a doctor say that's what he thought it was. I had an exterminator come and inspect the whole apartment only to find out there was no sign of bed bugs. Turns out I had an allergic reaction to the vitamins I was taking.
HeWillBeLoved105 22
I think you should stop seeing that doctor..
BBeffedmylife 28
Haha yeah I really should have went to a dermatologist but I just went to a primary care doctor. I did look at pictures online too and my arms and legs looked EXACTLY like that of a bed bug bitten person.
Brandi_Faith 34
This happened to my nephew too. He was 1 and had these bumps that looked just like bed bugs, the doctor said they were bed bugs, but when my sister went to look for them she took apart the crib and found nothing. Not to mention that there were 2 other kids, a dog, and the 2 parents who didn't have any bites. Ended up not being bed bug bites thank God.
weatherxveins 29
This happened to me too..I had bedbugs several years ago and recently started getting rashes that looked exactly like the bites I had..turns out it was a withdrawal reaction from a medication I had stopped taking.
mrmcleod 29
Napalm good sir. Napalm.
dolander 10
At least the bugs got a nice bed, trying to think of a positive.
photographer49 22
#18 cuz OP wants the bed bugs to feel comfortable?
dolander 10
Why not
laden_swallow09 35
Because bed bugs are pests, biting pests at that is why not. Sometimes there really is no positive side. Just time, money, and effort needed to fix the problem.
gracehi 33
You have my empathy. I've been there. Wash your sheets, blankets, and pillow cases, vacuum your mattress, carpets, rugs, and other furniture, and get a bug bomb. Also, I once used flea spray for cats to purge a mattress of bed bugs by saturating the surface with spray and leung it dry. Turns out that what's poisonous to one species of bug is probably poisonous to another. Good luck!
HackNSlashHD 10
You can put all your bedbug infested things like blankets and clothes in a big bag and keep it closed for a couple of weeks and suffocate them, or you can close the entrance to your room and any openings and put hot steam to fill up the room and suffocate them as well. While you do, don't buy any new things or they might get infested. I recommend sleeping in another room while the bugs die off.
Mr_Guy_Dude 17
I doubt you would get every bedbug if you put the mattresses, clothes ect. Into a bag. There would most likely be some crawling around somewhere unknown.
VeganVampyre 27
Actually, sleeping in another room will just cause them to follow you and spread to that other room. So you might as well just stay put. Also, there's no point to sleeping on the floor because they will still come out at night to bite you.
joelp232 17
nothing wrong with the counch
gracehi 33
I'm guessing OP doesn't have a couch either. Poor bastard.
bleedingglitter 24
They will get you on the floor too.
lvg_fml 10
There are mattress covers that seal really well. Nothing gets in or out. Wash everything in hot water and use a bomb made to kill bed bugs. Without getting the mattress cover though it's a losing battle with the bed
goaskdad 3
Washing the clothing is not going to kill the bedbugs. Instead, place them in the dryer for at least an hour on high heat and then directly into a closed bag until you have killed the bedbugs. This way, you will not re-infest your clothing and turn it into an endless cycle. Seal the mattress and spray bedbug killer into every nook and cranny throughout the room. The poison may take some time but it does work. Also, using a hair dryer on the itchy parts will release the histamine under the skin and make it dissipate.