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I tried searching for info in the internet but all the results are complete trash written by idiots.

Every day I wake up with new, extremely itchy bug bites all over my body. It started on my legs but now it's everywhere. I washed my sheets and blanket and removed my memory foam bed cover but that hasn't helped at all.

We don't have bed bugs where I grew up and I am dying pls help
 
I haven't been able to identify any such visual evidence. The only evidence I have is these 100 bites that make me wanna rip my skin off
 
kess said:
Bedbug bites usually occur in rows.
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No rows. Just random spots. One on my foot, one on my hand, one on my waist. They've gotten especially bad on my thighs though.

I'd go sleep on my couch but my fucking asshole roommate who prompted my milk theft threads, my posts about eating 9-12 pizzas a week, my post about skipping two straight weeks of school, and who hoards food trash, spends every night jerking off to Civ 5 and Wildstar and libertarianism on my couch.
 
Check very carefully at the seams of your mattress for black spots, these are the eggs. Check your bed sheets for bloodspots. Where are the bites? If they are near your ankles or other parts with easy access blood, you might have them.

Bed bugs are a bastard to get rid of, you will need to throw your mattress, bed sheets and probs your bed frame. We got them a couple of years ago from travelling, horrible experience. You ill also need to get fumigated.
 
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Now go out and buy a new house and a mattress. It's the only way to be sure.
 
Perhaps you're allergic to the detergent or fabric softener? Maybe try an extra wash cycle with the usual amount that you use just to make sure that stuff is washed out (or use less of the cleaning fluids with the same water amount :p).
 
I've examined my mattress a million times. I don't see anything suspicious looking. But I'm losing a lot a sleep and sanity over these bites that I can't put an end to. I definitely only get them at night, and it just started a few weeks ago. I haven't made any changes to anything bed related. It just... started happening.
 
Bed bug bites are concentrated pimple sized bites in a row and extremely sensitive to touch.

Flea bites are itchy inflamed looking welts, same can be said from mosquito bites too.

I'd know since I've been bitten by all 3 before.

Ants is another story...
 
GrizzNKev said:
I've examined my mattress a million times. I don't see anything suspicious looking. But I'm losing a lot a sleep and sanity over these bites that I can't put an end to. I definitely only get them at night, and it just started a few weeks ago. I haven't made any changes to anything bed related. It just... started happening.
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Do you sleep naked or in under ware? Try sleeping with pajamas that cover all of your body.
 
Philia said:
Bed bug bites are concentrated pimple sized bites in a row and extremely sensitive to touch.

Flea bites are itchy inflamed looking welts, same can be said from mosquito bites too.

I'd know since I've been bitten by all 3 before.

Ants is another story...
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Maybe it's fleas? These bites are all itch and no pain and are closer to mosquito bites than anything I'm familiar with. I live in an apartment building that allows pets.

I also saw a guy with a gas mask and some pump machine walking in and out of the place next door around the time this started.
 
This is a flea bite.

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GrizzNKev said:
Maybe it's fleas? These bites are all itch and no pain and are closer to mosquito bites than anything I'm familiar with. I live in an apartment building that allows pets.

I also saw a guy with a gas mask and some pump machine walking in and out of the place next door around the time this started.
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OH yeah, that'll fucking do it. :\ My condolences.
 
Here's another... this is chigger bites. Chigger is a mite, not a bed bug. Mites can cause a severe allergic reaction.

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This is what you're looking for, you might not see the bugs themselves because they like the dark and they're fast as fuck. This is what their feces looks like, it's basically drops of blood because that's what they eat. I had them in a place I moved into a couple of years back.

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I know you said you didn't travel recently, but I once thought I had bed bugs only to go to the doctor to find out I had scabies that I picked up from a hotel in upstate NY.

Fortunately it was easily treated.
 
Those are most likely scabies OP, If you have these bites with no sign of any bugs around, and you have these bites in forearm, around you wrist, legs, lower back. then yeah that's probably it, You need to go to a Doctor ASAP.

Good news is that Doctor will prescribe a lotion to used once that will take care of it, itchiness should be gone inn about 2 or 3 weeks, during that time get some anti itch cream.
 
If you do good luck, I had a hard time getting rid of them but I eventually did with some determination. They are HARD to get rid of.
 
Oh man, I also got hit by bed fleas 2 months ago and now I'm getting bitten AGAIN, it's unbearable.

The sad thing is, that they turned up some weeks after I had just bought a new sofa bed.

What can I do to get rid of fleas? =(
 
How shitty is your apartment? I lived in some broke ass ghetto apartnents for a year and bed bugs got spread around. It was pretty much hell.
 
I was able to contain my bed bug problem by spraying literally every part of my mattress, box spring, and floor surrounding the bed with rubbing alcohol along with using a steam cleaner. It's hell for the first few days (I couldn't sleep on my bed for about 2 weeks) but once it's all dealt with it's the most rewarding feeling ever.
 
I'll chime in and say the closet call I had with bed bugs was just one lone fucker that migrated here from another apartment that had issues and had them exterminated. Our landlord was decent enough to inform the building that this was occurring.

I then began to have bites a few weeks later and after scouring through my bed, I've found just that one lone bed bug on top of my bed skirt and underneath the mattress. The bites were hell, they weren't itchy, but they fucking HURT on contact. You can tell these bites weren't normal.

After an actual confirmation of the bed bug, I then went into a full scale furniture turn out. I cleaned, I vacuumed, I washed everything, rearranged furniture, removed excess items out, more vacuuming, bagged all of my plushies, stored away a lot of shit that could allow hiding spots for these damn things.

That was over 3 years ago and that was that. Thank god.
 
In addition to what others have said there were two additional things I did to rid myself of them.

1) Keep clothes in one of those space saver bags. If there are any that travel to your clothes that will suffocate them and keep the others off of them.

2) Use food grade diatomaceous earth. It's nontoxic and it wil kill them if they walk through it. It doesn't kill them instantly but after a few days it dehydrates them. Sprinkle lightly on your bed, couch, anywhere you find them including speading some on the floor. It will kill the eggs. It makes things dusty in your home for a little while but it helped me a lot.
 
You better hope not, or you're in for hell. We had to throw away all of the furniture in our apartment. All of the fucking furniture. My computer is currently set up on a $15 craft table from Target
 
I would just try changing detergent/shower gel as well if you see no evidence of them. Been thinking I was being bitten by something for a while, but it looks like I've developed some kind of allergy. Changed detergent from my last batch (as I usually get whatevers on offer) and it's cleared right up.
 
I had unbearably itchy spots show up on random parts of my body that lasted for 2 weeks or so, and it was due to detergent/fabric softener. They'd start out bright pink/red, like an inflamed mosquito bite, and slowly get darker and itch less.
 
If you're having hundreds of bites with no evidence of the bed bugs then you might be in luck. One way to draw them out and check if they're just expert hiders is to run a hair dryer over the edges of the bed in order to trick them into thinking that there's some body heat. Bed Bugs are super dumb and will crawl towards any comfortable heat source (as long as it's not TOO hot).

Another quick way to check is to let out some CO2 near you bed somehow. This can be done either with Dry Ice or some kind of CO2 canister used in airsoft guns. Again, they're attracted to the CO2 cause they stupidly think it's a sleeping human.

Source:

My company builds Bed Bug remediation heaters.

If you cannot find any Bed Bugs after doing those two things then you very likely don't have bed bugs and you can find relief in knowing you aren't in hell.
 
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