Bed Bugs Driving Me Insane

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I recently started studying bed bugs out of my own curiosity for all things strange in the world. I am now utterly and completely paranoid of having those tiny bloodsucking creatures all around my house.

Ok, so i dont even know if they are in my house. i havent called a specialist to come and check it out because, quite frankly, i think i would be wasting money because i know for SURE that very, very many houses in the world have them. they are a growing epidemic. these are tiny little bugs that, during the nigh, crawl out of whatever little crevices they live in (in your mattress, under your floorboards, in your ceiling, in a wall socket, are all possible habitats for them) and suck your blood. they breed intensely and are extremely difficult to get rid of due to them possible living literally anywhere out of plain sight in your house.

These bed bugs have been growing to epidemic proportions around the world now due mostly to travelling and the movement away from older, more potent pesticides. or so ive heard.

anyway, i am thoroughly paranoid. i am simply terrified of waking up at night to these things sucking me dry. and the cost to getting rid of them? basically having your entire house turned upside down, throwing away furniture, clothes, having your house treated with toxic pesticides… with the common turn out that the bugs come bag in several weeks.

I am seriously losing my mind. i have lost several nighs of sleep already. i trust sleeping elsewhere even LESS as i cant know the proportions of an epidemic in someone else’s house. these bugs are in many hotels, schools, hospitals… an epidemic is notoriously difficult to diagnose due to many people being un-responsive to the bites, as well as a small/early infestation being difficult to spot.

What are my choices? do i need therapy? will it even help? will therapy simply condition me to accept that (possibly thousands of) tiny creatures drink my blood at night, every night?

Also, have any of you ever had problems with bed bugs? how did you handle it? did they go away?

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You don’t need to worry. Bedbugs don’t infest the lairs of Trolls.

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I did a bit of study on them in uni for biology and they’re pretty interesting. They actually inject very small amounts of poison into your skin when they bite via tiny fangs like a spider.

Once you’ve been bitten enough the poison has a cumulative effect leading to anxiousness, restlessness, obsessive behaviour and paranoia. Most people just put it down to stress or poor diet etc but it was interesting how powerful the build up could be…

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OP do you have carpet on your floors?

I’m pretty sure a year and a half ago our house had a problem with bedbugs, and nothing really worked until we had the upstairs [where the floors had carpet] floor redone with hardwood. After that just using bug spray om important areas of the room [cracks under the walls, etc] did the trick and I haven’t had a problem since.

I’m not sure if this is effective at all, but it did work for us.

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Surround your bed with a sticky two sided tape every night before bed. Each time they come for a meal, they stick to the paper and you throw them out in the morning. I don’t know how long they go without a meal but after a few nights you should have them all pretty much destroyed.

Also if you suspect they are in your bed and beddings, wrap yourself in saran wrap, then wrap your bed in saran wrap, then coat your bed with tar. That will get the greasy little fuckers.

V

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Do not watch this. You’ll be paranoid like the OP.

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Why am I itching now?

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OP has revenge crabs.

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[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
OP has revenge crabs.[/quote]

this

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Hahaha

[quote]Vegita wrote:
Surround your bed with a sticky two sided tape every night before bed. Each time they come for a meal, they stick to the paper and you throw them out in the morning. I don’t know how long they go without a meal but after a few nights you should have them all pretty much destroyed.

Also if you suspect they are in your bed and beddings, wrap yourself in saran wrap, then wrap your bed in saran wrap, then coat your bed with tar. That will get the greasy little fuckers.

V[/quote]

Oh shit, wait. I think i jus been bitten with some paronoia.
No dude i’m serious, i just broke out in a sweet
The rooms shrinking, bed bugs
i neeeed saran wrap asap, someone help mee!!

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[quote]stockzy wrote:
I did a bit of study on them in uni for biology and they’re pretty interesting. They actually inject very small amounts of poison into your skin when they bite via tiny fangs like a spider.

Once you’ve been bitten enough the poison has a cumulative effect leading to anxiousness, restlessness, obsessive behaviour and paranoia. Most people just put it down to stress or poor diet etc but it was interesting how powerful the build up could be… [/quote]

+1

This guy knows his stuff, I also did a study on them in uni. Be careful OP.

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Sounds like OPs already been bitten!

But don’t worry, for a minimal fee you can have Print come over and trample all over your bed while he sniffs them out.

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I had bed bugs that my older brother brought back from his college bed. I think he got them from his roommate. I was having increasing problems sleeping and had no idea why.

I would just itch and feel super stressed until late every night. One nght i woke up and slapped my hand to a feeling on my leg and felt something wiggling. I stuck the bug on a pushpin and looked it up on my computer.

The next day I took my window apart. I threw my rug out the window, bent the mattress out, and took the boxframe apart with a hammer. They were everywhere. I couldn’t carry them through the house because all the floors are carpeted.

After clearing out everything from my room and washing all of my clothes, we bug bombed both my room and the immmediately adjoining room.

We never saw them again, but it was a pretty big pain.

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Try a wreath of garlic cloves around your neck.

DB

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Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa fuckers, tiny bastards. I want to kill, smite murder, destroy you. I will massacre you, I will fuck you up.

I hate insects.

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Hey man, everybody’s gotta get food from somewhere

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Another possible solution is to poison yourself to near death every night. Drink drano or something. Once they realize thier food source is tainted they will move on.

V

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thank you for those with serious responses. When i took apart my matresses i think i found traces of bed bug droppings and their shedded husks.

oh and whoever asked if i have carpets… i have fuckloads of them. Shit. Im going to try getting them chemical or dry cleaned or something. i am fucking itching all over typing this.

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Dude you have 2 solutions.

  1. Poison your self so they can’t suck you anymore.
  2. Call an exterminator.

I had the same issue some time ago, and i also tried to erradicated them with no succes, when i decided to call the exterminator it only took him like 2 hours, then 2 days later we washed and cleaned everything and that was it, fucking bugs.

There is no way around calling the exterminator, mmm well you could burn your house, but…

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Bed bugs can go 18 months without food.
Bug bombs do nothing (I don’t know how it worked in that poster’s case. They generally make the problem worse).

They’re very tedious and time consuming to get rid of. You have to wrap all your clothing in garbage bags and the exterminator needs to come at least 2-3 times. It’s also very expensive. If you accidentally wrap a bed bug inside the bag, you’ll have another epidemic on your hands when you open the bag (unless you wait 18 months). They have something like 5 babies a day and the babies can reproduce within a day or 2.

They need to bring back DDT. It’s the only way the epidemic will go away. That’s what eradicated them in the first place.