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6 months on - no bugs but still with the 'bites'?

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losingit

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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jan 22 2009 12:29:55
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Hi - I'm sure some of you know my story from a few months ago. Had them at work for 8 months or so before detection and treatment in July last year. Dog inspection gave all clear 6 weeks later, had second precautionary spray right after that. One more dog inspection in early oct = nothing detected. Again dog inspected in early dec and nothing was found. My home was inspected three times also to coincide with the work checkups. Nothing ever found at home.

Seen a dermatologist last week - tells me I have folliculitis. I'm skeptical. I research it and see that it's pimples mostly. Ok I have some pimple too but my pimples never start off as bite/hive types. They just are red and sometimes itchy but don't look like bites. He gave me cortisone cream which helps a little and I see him in 5 weeks for follow up.

But an hour ago at my desk at work I felt an itch, sure enough, a classic bite on my shoulder! I have had so many over the past 10-12 months (probably 100s if not 1000s) I simply don't have a clue if it's an old one and new one or what.

My work will NOT call the dog in again based on the 3 all clears, I can understand their position and I can't force them too. I continually search my bed/couch/apt and come up with nothing.

Im trying to not worry, trying to think it will ease up but so far it's averaging 5 bites a week (sometimes more = 7 and sometimes less = 2) I think they have dropped off from the 10 or more a week way back before treatment though?

(I honestly would love to quit my brain deadening, boring, but decent paying job but I don't have any other means of support)

What are your thoughts? Anyone have anything like this happen to them WITHOUT it being bbs??

Argghhhh!!
sereneseek

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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jan 22 2009 13:34:48
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I'm experiencing the same thing and it is driving me crazy! My problem is at my apartment. My apartment manager will not bring in a dog--they have us set out glue traps (and we all know how effective those are with bedbugs), so unless I want to pay for a dog... I haven't seen a bug, or signs of one, in months but am suffering with about the same frequency and number of bites that you have. I'm tired of itching all the time. Some of them don't look like typical bites but there are others that have the telltale bullseye look to them. I've ordered a really good (but expensive) steamer that was recommended on this site. It seems impossible to completely get rid of these things. In the meantime, I can't visit my family for fear of spreading them. My friends and family don't even believe that I'm being bitten any more. They think it's all in my head. I wish!
losingit

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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jan 22 2009 14:12:37
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serene I'd normally suggest that you just get the dog but Im so pissed off right now I could shoot the freaking dog! Stupid stupid stupid dog is all I can think. His nose must've been broken! I can think of no other explanation and yes, I know all about the 'other causes' none of them apply to me apparently.

I'm really really angry and incredibly upset at this moment. Over one year ago, that's when the started. A LONG MISERABLE YEAR. I can't take it, I just can't keep pretending it's going to get better, I no longer believe that.

I'VE F-KING HAD IT! I need to cry now.
Itchy-Scratchy

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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jan 22 2009 14:47:27
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Losingit, on a lesser scale, I know how you feel. It's been a 6-month battle for me and I'm still in the throws of it. I haven't seen a bug in months. The PCO can't find anything. And yet I'm getting blood stains on my sheets and the odd bite. It almost seems impossible to me -- like some sick cosmic joke. Where the heck are they hiding? How is this possible?

Dealing with this situation is like riding an emotional roller coaster. It's an ongoing process of breaking down and then picking yourself up again. Lately I've been wishing for drugs because I desperately want to escape my own head. My daughter (who's 25) asked me if I know where to buy pot!!
Kate
spideyjg

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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jan 22 2009 16:35:40
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Sounds like a job for one of those BB monitors. Sean had a write up about treating an office and using a monitor as part of that process.

Jim
bait

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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jan 22 2009 20:00:14
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I'm in the same boat - no bugs or evidence other than bites just about every night and blood on sheets. DE works to a point.

I have a theory... that I picked up an evolutionarily superior Cimex lectularius. Better at hiding, smaller, faster, longer lived, resistant to everything we are using, etc.

I've learned to live with the bites, and I know that one day I will prevail. Try to stay/get strong.
losingit

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Posted 1 year ago
Fri Jan 23 2009 13:26:21
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The problem is I can't do anything. My workplace assumes the dog was right, case closed. To be fair they did pay for the treatment and 3 inspections (I did offer to pay for part of it cos I felt so guilty but they declined) so I'm not sure what else I can ask them to do. Keep getting the dog out?

What if there's yet another all clear? It's like the boy who cried wolf. People stop listening...

I'm simply stuck. I can't haul in a steamer/sprayer to my cubicle, I can't pull my chair or desk apart to look, I can either put up with the mystery bites or quit.