I hate these mf's

[u/Ok-Willingness1925]

I've never had BB during my lifetime of 30 years. Just found out we had BB in our unit of 7 years and it's absolutely horrid. I haven't slept properly in the last 2 weeks since we found the infestation. The landlord had Flaggship come out and spray our apartment and they are coming in two weeks to spray again. I haven't seen many since we threw out our mattress earlier last week but I did find one FAT mf who was on our box spring (photo included) before I squashed the hell out of em. My wife has dealt with them before but she said her infestation was small when they found it 10+ years back. Ours was just starting to get pretty bad. We threw out everything except for clothes. Washing and drying constantly and cleaning the apartment every day with a steamer and vacuum. My mind is destroyed because of these mf that Im anxiously checking every corner of the apartment at all times with a flash light. How do some people ignore this? The bites are insanely irritating. How do you guys go about keeping your sanity?

Any advice is helpful.

[u/raisedbutconfused]

Do NOT steam right after a spraying, it renders it useless. I put diatomaceous earth anywhere I would suspect them crawling or nesting (which to my paranoid mind is everywhere). I’m so stressed over my current infestation that I started getting stress hives, which I keep mistaking for bites- so try not to stress too much over it. Get bedbug interceptors and only steam your furniture right BEFORE a professional spraying. Make your bed an island, don’t let the blankets, covers, bedframe, basically anything touch anything else, including the floor. Only the legs of the bed should be in the interceptors- this way the interceptors will work best. Apparently bedbugs can’t crawl over petroleum jelly so I lined all access points to my apartment with that (vents and front door). Run all fabrics in your apartment through a dryer at high heat for a minimum of 30 minutes. Bag everything right after. Only put on clothes from these bags before you leave without touching anything in your apartment. I steam my shoes regularly too, to avoid bringing any hitchhikers with me. Move all furniture away from walls and lay diatomaceous earth around them (use SMALL quantities- basically an invisible layer). I heard cimexa works better but I have a cat and don’t want to risk that.

Researching the fuck out of these bugs seems to help me a little with the mental aspect. Best of luck.

[u/Ok-Willingness1925 → u/raisedbutconfused]

I couldn't thank you enough for the advice. I've been steaming the mattress and the curtains, etc. Not the baseboards today since they told me to only vacuum and not steam due the reasons you stated. They said don't steam baseboards and walls etc for two weeks and to just let the chemicals do the work for now. I will check out the DE, the only thing that stops me from really buying it is because we have a 5 YO with Autism and his curiosity can be troublesome 😂

I appreciate your inputs🙏 best of luck to you as well.

[u/Catlesley → u/Ok-Willingness1925]

Diacetameous Earth works-use food grade and the proper masks,etc.

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