I'd just burn the whole house down. Just to be safe.

If you get an exterminator, make sure you don't hire Vamonos Pest (Breaking Bad reference)

If you hire an ex-terminator, make sure it's not Arnold Schwartzenagor either.

Didn't you ever get a clue when they itched instead of hurt? I would have first gone to a dermatologist instead of wasting so much money on treatments.

Too late.

Bed bug bites itch AND hurt. It was a hellish two weeks after I got bitten.

There is probably some of those buggers nesting inside the mattress. Washing the living daylight out of those sheets would do jack shit :l

Yep the only thing you can do to be sure you get rid of them is buy a new bed and bomb the house. You will also need to have the carpet cleaned if you have carpet. Good luck!

in hot water

Because bed-bugs hide until you're fast asleep, evolution designed them to hide and wait until you're so asleep you won't feel them bite. They hide in the very tiny cracks and corners. Which is why cleaning your sheets and adding chemicals doesn't help.

Yeah, they usually hide underneath the boards of beds and that's how they enter the house. You can check and wash your sheets as much as you want, but it's the bed that's really hiding them, and most people don't do regular bed inspections.

They can hide anywhere in the house though. Picture an apple seed, that's how big they are. Now, picture how many places an apple seed could fit. Good luck sleeping.

That may not even get rid of them completely, apparently they can live in your walls.

Yup they can. They can also live under rugs, behind photo frames on your wall, your bed frame and even in outlets. In my opinion they're the worst type of bug to try to get rid of.

I've had a bed bug problem for almost a year now. My mom spent $3000 on an exterminator. He put slip covers around the mattress and sprayed around the room a bit. he came to our house about 3 times. I told him that I still saw a few in my room and he said that they're probably in my outlet and sprayed it a bit and then left. That was in the summer. This January the bed bugs resurfaced and unfortunately our contract only lasted 90 days so we didn't call an exterminator. Turns out they were nesting in a picture frame I had on the wall over my bed. We finally got the situation under control using store bought stuff instead of hiring a sucky exterminator again.

I think the OP is self-medicating. He should have gone to a doctor in the first place.

#13, doctor's don't always correctly diagnose bed bug bites. Mine thought I had an allergic reaction, then thought I had a problem with dust mites. Didn't know bed bugs were real until I Googled the bites.

Well, you never know...

I knew bugs could be vicious but I had no idea they could flow like a liquid. You learn something new every day. /sarcasm

oops i meant *vicious

#10- it's spelled subtle not suttle...