Just watching this makes me feel itchy 😖

PTSD. If you’ve ever been bit by bed bugs, this is absolute nightmare fuel

I know right? One of the symptoms is just straight up, “A sense of dread.”

I can definitely confirm this. I had them once and for like a month straight I’d wake up and hate my life. We were so worried we would get kicked out of our apartment. And we’ve been here for a long time so switching apartments would mean a big increase in rent. There weren’t hardly any at all and we caught it very early. I was only bit once or twice. We didn’t even need to use professional help. Which would have been totally out of the question financially speaking. But I still wanted to die everyday until I was sure they were gone. Which was months. I would still check my furniture for years after I stopped seeing them. Luckily they never came back.

I had a roommate bring some in and he said nothing. We noticed a dead one in the dryer one day while doing laundry so I looked around. I used to do pest control so I had a pretty good idea of what I was in for. I searched my room and found 5 total. I then went asked to check his room just to make sure and when I lifted his mattress there were… a lot. They were pretty much everywhere in his room. I ended up bombing the house hoping it would kill the majority of them (if they weren’t resistant to the chemical in the bomb which is very common these days) luckily it did a pretty good job and I just had to keep up on spraying treatments and powders. I ended up moving out about two months later but I left everything I couldn’t put in a dryer behind. My bed, desk, tv, pc, all of it, out of fear of taking any with me. I pretty much started all over. Im still paranoid 6 months later and find myself just doing random quick checks of my bed and furniture. I haven’t found anything yet but the feeling just won’t leave.

I live in Central Texas and this happened happened to me during the summer. So what we did was tightly seal up everything in double bag trash bags that we could and tossed them in the car and let it cook in the 110° Heat. They generally die at 120°. Not sure if you are in the US but this is Fahrenheit I’m talking about. So it was well over 120° in the car and that cooked any bugs in those plastic bags as long as you leave it in there for a few hours. I can’t believe he didn’t say anything. If you don’t stop these things early it becomes a real problem to get rid of them. Real expensive too

Had a friend once, shitty Jake, this dude was a caveman. He went to Matt smiths house, knowing dam well he had them at home, and sat on his bed and fucked his whole house up. Some people just don’t give a fuck. Meanwhile one of my outside cats that just kinda show up when you live in a trailer park just coughed up a tapeworm last night and im ready to burn the whole fucking house down.

FYI, usually, when a cat has tapeworm, they’ve contracted the parasite from ingesting fleas that are infested with tapeworm. So your cat most likely also has fleas that need treating.

I got really confused for half a second thinking your friend went to 11th Doctor’s house lol My sister had some friends that she knew had bedbugs really bad and said nothing. Then informed us that they were replacing their sofa which led to us getting their old sofa during which exchange they said nothing. Then somehow I was the only one who got bedbugs really bad. Days into trying to deal with it she said “btw…” and I wanted to strangle her

“Friends”

Is Shitty Jake his nickname? Or did you kind of just assign it to him? Either way I love it. What a jackass. Matt Smith kind of sounds like a jerk too haha. I was scared to even go to other people’s houses when I had the damn things. I was afraid I would track them over there. I’d be coming up excuses like “no, I’m staying home. I got stuff to do you know. Like not infest your house with horrible little bugs.” Of course I didn’t say that because it was kind of embarrassing that I had them. The tapeworms aren’t much to worry about though so you can relax. Maybe take the kitty to the vet if you got the money. And get him some dewormer. I know all about random cats showing up at trailer parks haha. I lived in several trailer parks when I was a kid.

Matt Smith is the 11th Doctor lmao. It’s a different Matt Smith, I’m sure

Matt Smith did nothing wrong!

I feel this is a sign you should not have outdoor cats

So it turns out you can do it the other way if you dont live somewhere that gets hot as hell. Put them in TRANSPARENT trash bags. Throw them out on a hot day in the sun and the inside will get super hot. Use IR gun to double check if you’d like but it should break the kill point.

The IR gun is a clever touch.

Yeah I live in Illinois and it was October. Otherwise I would have tried that. But I don’t think its gotten hot enough even yet to work. I am hoping once the temp is consistently high to get a box truck load it was some things and parking it in an open lot for the day. A lot of the stuff I got from my grandfather when he passed away earlier that year and I definitely want it all back.

yeah I was gonna say, here in my area of AZ it gets 120 pretty regularly.. I would just put my mattress in the back yard for a few hours and hope it doesn’t melt

I had a boyfriend with bedbugs years ago. I was waking up covered in bites whenever I’d spend the night so I begged him to check his bed. Surprise, tons of bedbugs. When he said he didn’t think he needed to throw out his mattress I refused to enter his house again. Worst part? I lived in a dorm at the time. I was paranoid for MONTHS that I was gonna be that girl who brought bedbugs to the entire dorm building. Checked my bed every single night. I got lucky and never found any but it was still horrible

I moved into my first apartment in college and discovered a bug on me one morning. Figured it was just a rando bug and flicked it. Same thing next morning. Then when it happened a third time, I thought “Oh shit. Is this bedbugs?” It was. They heat treated the place and put me up in a temporary apartment across the street. Heat didn’t work, they were still there after 3/4 days of that place toasting via industrial heater. I ended up staying at the backup apartment all lease – but hey I got a two bedroom for the same price as a studio. Unfortunately however, it lead to me checking every bed I slept in for the next 4/5 years. I still do it occasionally, whenever I feel itchy in bed.. it never goes away.

Exactly, i get an itch on my leg in bed and the dread kicks in full force. Like I said I used to do pest control and these bugs are the reason I walked away. The infestation in the video is nuts but I had a low income apartment building that I serviced every other week. Half the floors one week and half the other. Several of the rooms had bed bugs, probably close to half because the residents all intermingled in each other’s rooms despite knowing there was an issue. The building managers didnt want to pay for actual treatments so I would come and do a normal run of the mill spray knowing damn well it wasn’t going to work. I explained to them it wouldn’t work and this is only going to get worse but they didn’t listen. There was one room in particular that when I lifted the mattress I was blown away, I treated it then lifted the boxspring and it was like an avalanche of dead bed bugs and casings. I finished my treatment went outside and stripped down in the parking garage and threw that uniform away in a bag i could seal, and wore my back up uniform I kept in my truck. It wasn’t long after that that I had a new job lined up because my company would keep sending me to that place knowing I wasn’t going to make much of a difference but they kept paying for the twice monthly treatments we offered. I just couldn’t handle the anxiety of it all. Once I quit I was able to calm down until I moved in with a buddy and my precious comment situation happened. Now im all sorts of paranoid.

If the Co. wasnt supporting you, you should have made them fire you for the 6 months unemployment.

Even today five years on I’m going into a hotel and I’m checking sheets and frames and using the luggage raiser thing.

Luggage raiser is one of the most common places to acquire bed bugs fyi. Store your luggage in the shower tub or on top of the sink.

I would recomend every do that even if they have never experienced it. The crazy thing is they are mostly harmless. They don’t transmit disease and as far as I know unless something changed since my last time at bug school we don’t know how that is.

Eh, it’s VERY difficult to detect a bed bug infestation. I know this particular video makes it seem as if they’re easy to spot but this is a very extreme video. In reality, a one-time check of sheets and mattresses is unlikely to reveal an infestation. I mean, I certainly don’t discourage anyone from checking a hotel mattress, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that it is a reliable way of detecting if there are bed bugs or not.

How does one reliably check a hotel room for bed bugs? Serious question, this skeeves me out.

Man, reading your post I was thinking this was something that was well in your past, not a fresh nightmare that you endured only 6 months ago! Glad you’ve escaped!

Yeah I’ve felt blessed that we were able to get it professionally done right away. I was panicking with all the research little me was doing until they told me the exterminator was coming.

Can’t go to bed. Can’t close your eyes. They are there. Waiting. They hunger.

Like of the bite itself? Or the having bed bugs part? That first one sounds terrifying if it’s real