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Questions regarding weeks after first treatment
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Posted 1 month ago
Fri Sep 25 2009 18:20:34
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First off, I'm guessing it's normal to see bedbugs where there were none before? IE, in the bathroom (bathtub, along the wall, in the sink) when previously they were only in the living room and in my bedroom?
Secondly, I was going bite-free for almost a week or two and then they started again. Despite the residual and spray and such, they're skittering across my desk when the lights are on and I'm actively raiding around 1/2a---they didn't used to before. Also, I'm finding bites/welts in the strangest places: underneath my underarm, kind of near my shoulderblade but lower? Where my bra would rest along my side. And then on my inner thighs and under my chin... wth. I'm glad it's not my arms as the scarring is horrific but still.
Then, last night, one either dropped off of the top of my monitor or off of my ceiling.. I just saw it land on it's back and attacked it with my handy roll of Scotch Tape to add it to the half-filled paper that I'm using to track the amount//lifestages of ones I find.
The PCO doesn't come again until October 9th and for the life of me I cannot find where they're housing. I've looked everywhere---inside my pc, shaken out my keyboard, lifting the rug from the baseboards to peer beneath and used cloth medical tape over all larger cracks in the wall--temporarily--and I just don't know where they are. It isn't the mattress as that's covered and since I've stickie-taped the legs of my desk chair (yet to do bed, oops), they're getting onto the desk somehow and waiting 'til I'm sufficiently distracted to bite me or crawl into me.
It's not nice, wiping my whole raid because I'm too busy chasing a bb across my desk with a piece of tape. However, the bugs look to be unfed (save for one I found on the lampshade near ma's couch) and some are acting lethargic and stoned---I'm guessing this is the norm for First Treatment? I'm really trying hard to look at the bright side... that I'm at least halfway into winning the battle...
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cilecto
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Posted 1 month ago
Sun Sep 27 2009 0:04:13
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Welcome back. Bugs do go on living after treatment and new ones hatch, hence the follow ups (didn't they assure you you'll only need one treatment?). Also, depending on the treatment, BB can get hyper as they try to outrun the chems and find safe new homes. AFAIK, good practice is to not cause this to happen. Also, I'm concerned re your use of "raid". Who's directing you on this? Hang in there.
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cilecto - 35 minutes ago »
Welcome back. Bugs do go on living after treatment and new ones hatch, hence the follow ups (didn't they assure you you'll only need one treatment?). Also, depending on the treatment, BB can get hyper as they try to outrun the chems and find safe new homes. AFAIK, good practice is to not cause this to happen. Also, I'm concerned re your use of "raid". Who's directing you on this? Hang in there.I never said anything about using Raid.
Raiding, as in Warcraft dungeons is what I said, if that's what you meant. I'll edit and clarify.
EDIT: Or I can't XD
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