Comments on: Survey #1: How Do YOU Sleep?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:12:00 +0000

I’m so glad to find your site. I am trying to find anyone in Atlanta that has bed bugs–I’m curious if it’s just me or if the problem is more widespread in this city

By: Backfighter

Backfighter — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:22:00 +0000

I slept very well on the night after the day that I attacked them for 7 hours by vacuuming, dismantling bed and furniture at suspected places, catching and killing most of them, brush things to remove eggs, cleaning good, spraying a lot of synthetic permethrine with a stray in all cracks. Afterward I illuminated for 4 hours. I was exhausted but satisfied. I still sleep good after a week without bites and I am happy if I see few dead nimphs, bugs, flies and spiders near the places that I sprayed. The stuff works for a month, but next week I spray again. An exterminator can never invest the time to look real good for nests and eggs. You need a small flashlight to invest every hole good. I gonna repeat this treatment 4 times, even if I don’t see any bugs anymore. Persisting in cleaning and spraying is the best way to deal with them, I guess. Work hard, get tired! Sleep tight, make sure that the bed bugs don’t bite.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:29:00 +0000

i sleep with the lights on, in long-sleeves, long pajama pants, and only after showering and applying Avon skin-so-soft in the shower (the bath oil, not the bug spray). Not sure any of that helps, but once you adopt any activity like this, it’s hard to undo (maybe it’s the one thing that’s helping, after all!)

despite all that, sometimes i stay up quite late, avoiding sleep, despite the fact that the buggers are more likely to appear in the wee small hours.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:52:00 +0000

I don’t sleep. It’s horrib-lay. I stayed at a hotel last night to try and I was so itchy, I had to lay cold wet towels all over my bites.

By: Bugged in Atlanta

Bugged in Atlanta — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:42:00 +0000

I sleep in my armor, (a long sleaved cotton turtle neck tucked into my pants and gloves and pants tucked into socks.) I finally stoped because yes I live in Atlanta and it's August and I only have fans on at night because I only have a window air conditioner unit in my bedroom that doesn't ever shut off when it' too cold.

I also wrap a sheet around me like a caccoon that's pretty tight. I've been doing this for a year and it now seems normal how sad is that? I get anxious when I don't have my armor and caccoon.

Question for bugged, How do your bites look? Because I use to when my infestation was bad have mosquio like bites that itched. Since I have the bugs still but a smaller more controled infestation I only have tiny specks of red maks sometimes in the breakfest lunch dinner threes making it look like a larger red dot, they don't itch at all. I have one I remeber when I went on vac in March noticing on me could have been there longer, but I still have the same spot on me from march so 6 months I've had that bite. I never know when or if I have new bites.

My theory is that nymps give tiny bites, little red dots, and adults give mosquito like bites, so you probably have alot of adults in your apartment. If you can get a residual spray and apply it every 3 weeks you probably will get bites like mine and still have the bugs but it'll be more controled and you won't have itchy bites and wake up to blood on your sheets.

By: Bugged Out

Bugged Out — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:54:00 +0000

When my girlfriend sleeps over, having sex is a good way to tire oneself out. And after achieving orgasm, bed bugs are the last thing on my mind as my head hits the pillow.

When I’m by myself, a glass of Coke and rum usually makes me woozy enough to fall asleep. Also, I don’t seem to feel the pinch of the bites as much when I have a good alcohol buzz running through me.