Comments on: Don’t let the bedbugs bite! (No, seriously.)

By: Evelyne

Evelyne — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:32:29 +0000

Dealing with them now…..I am itchy and scabby all over. Will try Fresh water / food grade DE. 5 loads of laudry today, duck taped garbage bags over mattress and box spring, took bed appart to inspect. Only half way done, tomorrow dressers and closets

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:06:26 +0000

I have them. The extirminator will come tomorrow. I pray it works. If not, I will walk out of my home with nothing but the clothes on mine and my daughter’s back. I seriously cannot take this anymore. Had to throw out bed, sofa, alot of things. I dont wish this on my worst enemy. I work all day and spend every minute at home washing and bug hunting. Words cannot express how bad this sucks. I have become an obsessive compulsive bedbug hater….pretty sure we caught them from a playmate of my daughters, she slept over, her mother is dirty and in denial, said she gets bites on her legs and its fleas, said she found dead fleas in her daughters bed, how can a mother let her child sleep in filth, and be in denial, I regret the day I ever laid eyes on these dirty people.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:14:13 +0000

Once upon a time I lived in a trashy, run down motel in the worst part of my hometown. Besides the roaches, there were bedbugs as well.
I began to wake up with DOZENS of little red dots that developed into lesions within a short period of time. There were everywhere, mostly my legs, but on my arms and hands too. They scarred. I conferred with a neighbor, and she showed me gross, scarred and pock-marked polka-dot skin due to the bugs. She had been living in the motel for years. I moved the hell out, and haven’t had a bite since.

By: the creature

the creature — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:21:00 +0000

that video gave me the creepy-crawlies.

By: LC

LC — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:59:00 +0000

I recently dealt with them. Scared the bejesus out of me! I am one of the unlucky allergic people, but in a way it was good because I knew I had them and was able to get the apartment treated right away. The worst part was having to wash EVERYTHING in hot water and put it all in plastic bags and containers and keep them in there for two months. As much as you might hate toxic chemicals and killing our friends in nature, this is the one time you’ve got to let that go and bring out the full chemical arsenal!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:49:00 +0000

My wife and I stayed at a fairly nice hotel in Fort Lauderdale (I won’t mention it by name, but the founder’s great grandaughter is a attention seeking slut)

We were forced to take a room with two beds and I guess she got the bad one. The next morning she was covered in bites. My wife reacts badly sometimes to insect bites and we ended up in the emergency room. The hotel manager and the lawyer called around that time and when they asked how my wife was feeling (they did not know that I had taken her to the ER) and I told them, well the doctors are hooking up an IV and covering her with icepacks, the response was utter silence. Same weasel lawyer tried to trick us into signing a liability waiver by offering me a check for 500 dollars for “immediate expenses”. When I asked if that would constitute a waiver, more silence. Check never arrived.

A few months later, we settled the matter for 10 thousand. My wife calls it her bed bug money.

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:15:00 +0000

A friend and I stayed at a hotel in NYC – directly across the street from Madison Square Garden. We were there for 4 days. On the morning that we were leaving, she awoke to find a tiny bug on her chest. Luckily she captured it in a plastic cup. When we complained, the manager insisted that they weren’t bedbugs, but comped our stay anyway. I wanted to leave all of our belongings there since they could have been replaced at a cheaper cost than having my house exterminated had the little critters hitched a ride with us. We just washed everything over and over and over in hot water and tossed our overnight bags.
After a little research I’ve noticed many people mention finding tiny specks of blood on their sheets. I always keep an eye out for that now.

By: Kung Pow HausFrau

Kung Pow HausFrau — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Bedbugs is my Enemy Number One.

Not that I’ve ever had them, but what I’ve read online makes me think that if we ever did get them, I’d just plumb burn the darn house down.

I hate staying in hotel rooms for this very reason.

NOBODY…CAN BE…TRUSTED.

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:28:00 +0000

They hate eucalyptus. I got bedbugs when I was younger so my mom grabbed a small branch of eucalyptus leaves that had fallen and put it under my mattress. Cleared them right out!

By: sera

sera — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:09:00 +0000

So…this is sort of a crazy question, but this feels like the right place for it. How do you *know* if you have bed bugs. I see one bug every couple of months or so that looks like a bed bug, but I’ve been told is not. I’ve never been bitten, I’ve never seen more than one at a time and I only see them weeks or months apart. Bed bug or not? This has been driving me nuts for about a year now. Any insight?