Last night was a lot better

[kierthos]

(Not actually really work-related)

Okay, slightly work-related. You see, I work the graveyard shift. I have done so for most of the last ten-plus years. So I have a tendency to refer to when I go to sleep (roughly 2 p.m.-9:30 p.m.) as night, when it's actually early afternoon to evening by everyone else's standards.

Well, the last couple of weeks, getting enough sleep has been more trouble. I've been taking Unisom for a while now to help me fall asleep, but I've had trouble staying asleep. Because something keeps biting me when I'm trying to sleep.

I wasn't sure (and I'm still not sure) that it's bedbugs, but between vacuuming the shit out of my bedroom, getting a full mattress cover, using some anti-bedbug spray, and washing all my bedding at the same time, it appears I've killed/blocked off nearly all of the little buggers.

The only thing that bit me in the last 16 hours was a mosquito on the walk home.

*crosses fingers* Here's hoping.

Comments

[dreamshade]

Fuck bedbugs. Fuck them so goddamned hard. Little pieces of shit.

The thing that worked for me was the mattress cover. You wrap your mattress in plastic for a month or so, and it eventually suffocates the little assholes.

[kierthos]

It can take more then a month. The little bastards can go 18 months without eating. (Although honestly, I have no idea if they could suffocate before then.)

[thedeadcat]

I think I'm going to have to wrap our mattresses. I'm not feeling any bites, but with the fuckers going widespread again, I worry it's just a matter of time...

[kierthos]

I got one of these at Wal-Mart. If you don't have bedbugs yet, this should keep them from using the mattress as a home. (And if you do have them, it should trap the little fuckers inside.)

I also got some bedbug spray. (Apparently, using other types of insect spray, like for roaches or ants, doesn't do a damn thing to bedbugs.)