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Originally Posted by dhcg86
bump for bed bugs found in my apartment
as someone who recently went "though" this, my advice is:
make yourself 100% certain that what you found was actually a bed bug, and not anything else.
my recent story:
me and my wife woke up with bad bites 2 days in a row. then I find a bug on our bed 1 night. eff. so we go nuts, throwing out a BUNCH of stuff, cleaning, decluttering, prep for exterminator to come over, do a TON of laundry, live in a hotel for 2 days with ziploc bags filled with decontaminated clothes, feel much shame. he comes over, examines the bug I found, and goes "lol thats not a bed bug and I found no bed bug evidence"
so we had *something* - my guess is fleas, or maybe some spiders - but it doesn't look it was bed bugs. (it is always possible we do in fact have them, but there is not much evidence for it and in hindsight the evidence there is doesn't really point to bedbugs either). so it was good the exterminator came, and its always good to declutter, and cleaning is always a good thing, so its not ALL bad - but we could have saved ourselves a good deal of mental anguish if we had more carefully examined what I found (not all bugs look the same!!), and had a bed bug dog come over first (we still plan on doing this in a few weeks).
if this happened again, I would 100% FIRST call a bed bug dog to come over and figure out if/where a problem is. then treat accordingly with that knowledge in hand, whatever it is