Submitted by "Don Juan" on 04/07/2008

Before Christmas, 2007, I discovered them inside the baseboards around the perimeter of my living room, especially under my computer desk. Found more than 20 full-size ones in all. I don't even know how they got there. I just started noticing them one night when I was working late on my computer, and felt something crawling on my hand and then something on my leg in the same night. My bed has been pretty well free of them, though. I check my bed regularly, and there is never anything there, but before I knew any better, I had brought some with me from my computer desk to my bed, where they eventually ended up biting my girlfriend. I called the manager. A couple of days later, a pest control person arrived, and he was surprised that I hadn't been informed that I had to leave the apartment for 4 hours. Strangely, the pest control person himself didn't even ask me for any kind of proof that showed that I had bed bugs. I voluntarily showed him my collection of bed bugs wrapped in tape anyway, though. Well, a lot of bed bugs crawled out of the baseboards after the treatment, and I soon realized that I actually had quite a few. My computer chair was infested, so I threw that out. The treatment wasn't anywhere near 100% effective, so I resorted to trying my own treatments with raid (for bedbugs) around the baseboards and other areas, vacuuming all the time, and putting double-sided tape around my bed frame legs and above the perimeter of my bed on the ceiling. Actually, I think the apartments in this building are ideal breeding grounds for bed bugs, and I know there had been at least one infestation more than a year before I experienced mine. It's an old building with way too many cracks in the ceilings and walls. As soon as I have the means, I'm going to have to move to a better place, and leave all my furniture behind :-(