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My Bed Bug Experience...
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Iluvmardi
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Sun Sep 27 2009 1:42:28
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Ok, so I am 17 years old. I am captain of my Poms squad. And it is my senior year. We went to poms camp around the end of July. We stayed and Northern Illinois University (NIU). I slept in a dorm room like everybody else there. I woke up the next morning took a shower and got dressed. After getting dressed, my ankled itched. I itched it and left it alone. Then a couple seconds later it itched again. Of course i itched it. Then it REALLY itched to the point where it really bothered me. So i look at it and it looked like a mosquito bite. So i didnt think anything of it. Well, alittle while later i find some more "mosquito" bites on my knees, elbows, ankles, and even the back of my neck along my hair line. Before I knew it, i was itching everywhere!!! My feet, hands, knees, ankles, and the whole back of my head itched and throbbed like no other. I talked to my coaches and i was texting my dad and told him i wanted to come home. My coach and i went up to my dorm room to get my sheets because we had a thought that it could be bed bugs. I get to my dorm room and look at my pillow and i saw 3 small blood marks. I started freaking out. I gathered all my things and my dad finally picked me up. My mom already scheduled a doctors appointment and 3:45 pm. I got home around 2 in the afternoon. As soon as i got home my dad put all of my clothes in the washer and washed them in super hot water. I took another shower. My dad gave me a benadryl and i fell asleep on the couch. I woke up around 2:45 and my feet, ankles, knees, elbows, hands, back of my neck, and my forehead was competely swollen. My throat also felt tight and it was hard for me to swallow or breathe. My dad rushed me to the doctors. The doctor thought this reaction was from a medication i was on which is called minocin. She said that this medication was known for this kind of reaction. But I was already on this medication for 3 weeks? Wether or not she sent me to the emergency room anyway because of my throat. I got to the emergency room and the doctor there said it this was an allergic reaction to the bed bug bites. We told her that our real doctor said it was the medication minocin. The ER doctor said that Minocin can cause something like this but she said that this was not from the medication, it was from bed bugs. She put me on a 30 mg steriod perscription called Prednisone. That is a 3 pill a day to reduce the swelling. The swelling went way after 3 or 4 days. I was on this med. from Friday to Tuesday. They didnt weene me off of the steriods. Tuesday night i suddenly had a bad joint pain in my left shoulder. The next morning it was much worse. This joint pain moved to the right shoulder. Then to my neck. It also moved to my hands, knees, and my left hip. One morning I woke up around 4 am screaming in pain. My hip hurt so much i couldnt get out of bed. I had to call my dads cell phone to wake him up cuz i couldnt get up. I went back to the doctors and they put me on the same steriod perscription and finally weened me off of the steriod. Now i dont know if this mysterious joint pain was from the steriods or the bed bugs or what. To this day, my doctors can't agree on what it was. But i garuntee that it was those stupid bed bugs. I looked online and it said there are rare cases of severe allergic reactions to bed bugs. Who knows what it could have been. But i found this site and thought i should share my horrible experience.
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Iluvmardi
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Posted 5 months ago
Sun Sep 27 2009 1:45:01
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I apologize for the spelling and grammer errors.
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Iluvmardi
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Posted 5 months ago
Sun Sep 27 2009 1:51:30
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cilecto
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Posted 5 months ago
Sun Sep 27 2009 8:47:03
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Wow. I'm no doctor, but guessing that just as some people have delayed reactions to BB, they can have delayed drug reactions. Also, it might have been the combo that set you off. Hope you get better soon.
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iluvmardi,
Thanks for sharing your experience. Your reactions sounded brutal. I hope you're all better now.
Good on you and your parents for laundering your stuff when you got back. You take care.
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