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When I was renting a flat with a couple of other guys, one of them called me one day on the way home from work and said they had discovered bedbugs (this is in

When I was renting a flat with a couple of other guys, one of them called me one day on the way home from work and said they had discovered bedbugs (this is in the UK). I'd never really heard of them aside from the old "night night, don't let the bedbugs bite" saying. It turns out they are a psychological terror! Every night you know that you're going to fall asleep and have your blood sucked out by loads of little bugs. The council pest control guy who came out made us empty all the rooms, heat treat all of our clothes and then keep them double bagged in sealed plastic bags and once a week he would come round and spray the flat in chemicals and then we would need to put the beds back together and go to sleep as the only way to get the bedbugs to come out and encounter the poison was to lure them out to feed on us. It affected me mentally for months and months and I'm always paranoid now whenever I go anywhere new like a bus, train, cinema, someone elses house, etc that I'm going to bring them back home with me. They are no joke.

Alifatisk 3y ago
> It turns out they are a psychological terror! This, I cannot express this enough. These little monsters will tear your mind apart. It took me years to recover and I am still a little paranoid every now and then.
that_guy_iain 3y ago
My pest control guy told me that I had to keep living in my apartment and sleeping in the same sport otherwise they would just spread throughout the apartment and take longer to kill. I still get the feeling every now and then one of the fuckers are climbing on me.
- kennyadam 3y ago
  Yeah, when we were told we needed to just keep sleeping in our beds, it was so unsettling. For months I just didn't sleep under any covers because I couldn't handle the thought of them creeping around under there and I would wake up constantly throughout the night to the fear that I was being bitten... months after we'd seen the last one too. Whenever I'd vist my parents, I'd have a double bagged load of clothes that I'd keep in the boot of my car and I'd run them through high heat dryer cycles daily and change into them in outside the house after thoroughly checking myself for bedbugs. It took me years after moving out of the flat to get my head back to normal. Awful. Awful. Awful.

Alifatisk 3y ago

> It turns out they are a psychological terror! This, I cannot express this enough. These little monsters will tear your mind apart. It took me years to recover and I am still a little paranoid every now and then.

that_guy_iain 3y ago

My pest control guy told me that I had to keep living in my apartment and sleeping in the same sport otherwise they would just spread throughout the apartment and take longer to kill. I still get the feeling every now and then one of the fuckers are climbing on me.

kennyadam 3y ago
Yeah, when we were told we needed to just keep sleeping in our beds, it was so unsettling. For months I just didn't sleep under any covers because I couldn't handle the thought of them creeping around under there and I would wake up constantly throughout the night to the fear that I was being bitten... months after we'd seen the last one too. Whenever I'd vist my parents, I'd have a double bagged load of clothes that I'd keep in the boot of my car and I'd run them through high heat dryer cycles daily and change into them in outside the house after thoroughly checking myself for bedbugs. It took me years after moving out of the flat to get my head back to normal. Awful. Awful. Awful.