Alex...sorry if I have bothered you...I just wanted you to know...that I broke my lease today...she is keeping one months security...3300. ..I will stay until...
Moving with bedbugs: Since I am planning to move and I have bedbugs, I have been thinking about this a lot. If the exterminators are coming, they will...
Deb, I'm so glad you're moving! From my experience dealing with people who've had bedbugs, that seems to be the most effective way to be rid of them. Others...
Caitlin..thanks for your reply...yes I broke my lease,,,the problem is that I don't know where I am moving to...so I am under stress..I have a husband, a son...
Thank you for your advice....I am in a single family home...I did tell my landlady and she is going to exterminate when I leave....I am packing everything up...
I've heard about the container treatment of furniture. Sounds like the way to go and it will be reassuring that you did that. You are doing everything...
Thank you ..you are correct...I spoke to an enthomologist yesterday and he said that because we stopped using effective pesticides like DDT they have...
My bedbug problem still exists. I don't see bed bugs but even though my landlord sprayed and I've sprayed I am still being bitten, though noitcably less than...
I understand the paranoia, but bedbugs are really nothing to be ashamed of. They are beasts of nature and they destroy our peace of mind, but they are not a...
It is late and I am too tired to tell you about my latest nightmare....the exterminator told me that unless I could show him a bedbug he wouldn't exterminate...
Caitlin..this is debbie...I have been through hell....I wanted the exterminator to fumigate my furniture but he said he has to see the bugs to have proof....I...
Thanks. Anxiety is the issue. Actually I was worried if I might spread bedbugs in the library books I take out and return, not whether I can get bedbugs from...
Debbie, Let's go on Oprah. I feel so bad that medical people and such don't believe you. I didn't save my live bugs and casings either when I found them, and...
Parakeets - I think that if you are getting your infestation under control then you will not spread bedbugs in your library books. To be sure, check the books...
For all those like me suffering from anxiety, there is a "bed bug sensitivity syndrome" that actually causes "nervousness, lethargy and pallor." Here's where...
For all who are currently suffering the bugs, I do want to tell you that, once they've been exterminated, things do get much better. I thought I was going to...
Caryn, Thanks. It's great to see what the next stage is! I look forward to it. I'm still in the obsessive stage. Like grief, dealing with bedbugs has its...
Caryn...Please can you give me specifics on exactly how you did get rid of them...I have never seen one but the bites...small lines in a row around my torso...
Parakeet....I like you, am so anxious it has changed my life...the drs. I went to cannot identify a bedbug bite...and the exterminators want me to find them to...
http://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/cgi-bin/pestcontrol.storefront/443dadc00105f538273f4200c14805ef/Catalog I purchased a dust and sprayer from these...
Deb November, I agree about the stigma. Good word and so true. In addition to my landlord's rather desultary one-time fumigation, I also tried the online...
Yes, I've thrown a lot of furniture out already: My bed (I bought a metal bed frame to replace my wooden bed), my nightstand, my couch, my chair...I sit on a...
Hi Deborah, It took a lot of hard work. I did a lot of laundry, caulked cracks in my room and had the exterminator come three times. (I only threw out one...
What a shame...for all of us....I could write a made for TV movie about my life since this happened...how do you think yours showed up in the first place??? I...
What online products did you try???? I purchased Drion Dust and Suspend and Gentrol..and I bought my own sprayer.....I am going to move into my mother in laws...
Deb, Is your stomach exposed during sleep? Bedbugs generally only bite on skin that exposed during sleep. (If someone sleeps in a t shirt and shorts and...
thanks Caryn....but I just can't bring myself to tell people...I am older...and this has really done me in....I am moving into my mother in laws home...she is...
... I used Suspend. I bought the Drion Dust but then was afraid to use it because I have asthma. mattress covers didn't work???? I got the Breathe Right...
... about my life since this happened... Write for Ladies' Home Journal in the "My Problem and How I Solved it." Your story is good and you are not out to sue...
Caryn (and Deb, too), Good answers about being bitten. Just one piece of advice--if you wear long pants, socks, and a sweatshirt to bed (which I have done to...