hi guys so my bf wants me to move in with him and his grandma in a 2 bed apartment, but a couple months ago they had bedbugs. his grandma is kind of a hoarder and will not throw anything away. she will literally take stuff out of garbages swearing she “has another use for it” i’ve been sleeping over there the past month and i’ve never seen one myself but i have had bites that look more like mosquito bites rather than bed bug bites but my bf hasn’t had any. his grandma just said yesterday she saw one in the bathroom. if my bfs room is separated by tile from her room can they still get in? i’m just worried about bringing all my stuff over there bc of this. also would she have to throw everything away to get rid of them? i just feel like it’s never going to happen and she will take them everywhere she goes

Found these on my son’s sheets today after washing them

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Hi everyone,

My worst nightmare came true last week when I found bed bugs on my mattress topper. I have since then put all my belongings in garbage bags and sealed plastic bags out in the sun (it's been 35/37 deg C this past weekend) and had a pest control guy come out to assess the situation. I have also hot washed and dried every piece of clothing in my closet. Since I squashed everything I found and threw out the mattress topper, the exterminator was only able to find one bug on the frame and no eggs or nymphs. He treated my room and said he doesn't think there's much of an infestation, so wouldn't do a second treatment unless I see another in the next two weeks. (Everyone on this sub wouldn't ever recommend only one treatment) I also purchased DE and I'm going to dust all the carpet corners, behind frames, cracks etc. And I am getting rid of my bed frame and mattress because I feel sick with anxiety.

My question is really-- should I move my new bed frame and mattress into the room before the two weeks are up? Also moving all my clothes back into the room? I can't afford to replace everything again and I can't imagine washing my entire closet again either. I'm also incredibly reactive to bites (I only had one night of bites), and they hurt and swell similar to a spider bite.

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Hey all! i’ve been dealing with a bedbug infestation for a little while now, and while i’ve slowly but surely seen the numbers dwindling, i have some delicate handmade fabric items that I can’t really afford to be put through the dryer. i’m really stuck in a pickle here, almost of the garments i’ve had in my room by my bed are either very expensive, or things i made myself by hand that i can’t really afford to throw away, any advice ?

Made the dreaded discovery yesterday and already feel like I'm losing my mind. In need of advice from any fellow New Yorkers- or anyone familiar with this kind of situation. I'm in NYC so subject to whatever service the landlord decides to use unless I want to shell out a ton of my own money, which I don't really have a lot of. Two problems. The first one is that I have several items that are delicate and shouldn't be subjected to heat or pesticides (100-year-old antiques, designer handbags, musical instruments)... Anyone have experience in sanitizing these? The hot car thing isn't an option for me in February (I don't have a car anyway) and they're too big for the freezer. I am also wondering if anyone has experience getting NYC landlords to pay for services like bedbug laundry, traps, mattress covers, and other supplies that are necessary to the whole process but not included in the extermination. From what I've read most won't cover it or grant rent abatements for it, but would love to hear otherwise if you managed it. And finally, what did you do with your laundry if you're like most New Yorkers and didn't have in-unit or in-building laundry, didn't want to take it to a local laundromat and risk infesting their business, and may or may not be able to afford an expensive pickup service?

Also open to hearing any comforting testimonies about the whole process not being quite as hard as you'd thought it would be at the outset. This happened right on top of some other unrelated disasters in my life and I am at my limit. Thanks for any words of wisdom that help me hold onto my sanity :')

Hello everyone! As the title says, my partner and I are living with our in-laws while we house hunt and save more towards our down payment. We may not be able to move out until later on in the year, but now we’re stuck with a predicament.

Father in-law won’t take their bed-bug problem seriously. They’ve gutted their house twice before but he doesn’t seem to care and said we shouldn’t worry until we see them on our (still being financed) mattress. As someone whose parents had beg bugs as they were trying to sell their house and had to get rid of thousands of dollars worth of furniture, I know how serious this is. The reason I’m bringing this up today is he found one on his coat, meaning they’ve probably made their way outside of their bedroom.

We’ve been checking our mattress for weeks because they spotted them a few months back. We’re buying a zippered mattress cover today (should’ve done this months ago), and will be vacuuming thoroughly and putting everything in the dryer on high heat as well as spraying the outside of our bedroom. Luckily our room is across the house from theirs, but both my partner and I agreed we can’t sit on their furniture anymore.

Is there anything else we can do to keep them from entering our bedroom? I don’t see us being able to move into an apartment, and I also don’t see my in-laws actually treating the problem. My mother in-law cares, but father in-law won’t take it seriously! Any advice helps, as my and my partner’s anxiety is through the roof!

Found one in my bed and one on bathroom rug. I’ve had bed bugs in the past & they were successfully exterminated. No other signs and no bites (I’ve always had severe reactions to bed bug bites). Tore apart my bed, checked everything including bed frame and nothing. Same with the couch. But I know they are expert hiders.

It looks like a super early catch of them but not sure. Any idea of what it is much appreciated.

Hi, so this weekend I am sleeping at a friends house. I slept last night and am sleeping again tonight. I have no way to avoid sleeping over tonight. A couple minutes ago, as i was laying in the spare bed that was placed next to hers, I noticed a bug that definitely resembles a bed bug. I didn’t have it in me to kill it. As soon as I saw it, my whole neck started itching.

I should note that a couple weeks ago I stayed at this friends house for one day and when I got home i had red marks all over me. They didn’t really look a lot like bed bug marks, at least from what i had seen online, so all I did was inspect my mattress and bed very thoroughly, washed all my sheets and blankets and my clothes, and after a couple days the marks went away.

I don’t know what to do know. I’m too scared to check the mattress cause if there is a whole swarm of any bugs i’ll probably start crying and won’t be able to sleep at all tonight. Please help i want to do everything possible to avoid bringing bed bugs into my house when I get back. I wanna cry😭😭

Moved to a new place recently. put some soda around to trap smelly, and ended up trapping one of these next to the bed. Looks about a mm long. Really worried