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umm YESS!! I'm a social worker and I do home visits with my clients. One of our apartments is INFESTED with bedbugs and it skeeves me out soo bad. I feel so bad for my co worker who needs to visit the apartment. She has to wear a giant painter's suit every time she goes to protect herself. I think it's funny that A&F and Hollister have had them--I guess that heinous cologne/perfume they spray ALL over the store/street attracts the bedbugs! :)
A Victorias Secret on Lexington had them too. yuckaroo.
Uh YES, this is so gross and upsetting! I read this article in the NYT this morning and felt itchy just looking at it. Some people have posted tips for prevention/eradication in the comments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/nyregion/21bedbugs.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage
But like many things, I'm just sort of pressing on and not thinking about it too much, like this quote from the story:
“It’s like terrorism,” said a woman as she ran into the recently sprayed AMC theater. “Just cross your fingers and keep going.”
Guess that's all you can really do!
I just started itching when I read this post. It's very upsetting.
I am so grossed out... At this point I'm not even worried about my apartment getting them - I'm more worried about buying clothes anywhere in the city now. Oh, and my SO and I often go to the 42nd st movie theatre..... BLEEECCKKKKKK
Ugh, yes. A couple of years ago I read some article about how those seats in the subway stations were found to have bedbugs, and then another about how people were buying new mattresses and they had bedbugs from the trucks. So gross. And now the current wave of articles... everywhere I look, I wonder if there are bedbugs!
ewww!!! I'm not in NYC and I'm grossed out! ugh, the idea of those gross suckers anywhere is disgusting! ick!
My best friend got infested. I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't avoid her or anything. I just really hoped and prayed whenever I went to visit her and guess what, she got them all eradicated and I didn't get them!!
We go to that movie theater ALL THE TIME. Ugh!!!
I am irrationally paranoid about it--I admit that I have woken DH up in the middle of the night because I thought I felt something crawling on my skin.
There are lots of buildings in my neighborhood that have had problems, too.
I have no words of advice, just fellow disgust.
My parents are in Denver, and there's an infestation there too!! My dad works at a hospital and he recently had to help them spray it out for bed bugs! ICK! At the hospital?? There aren't any bed bug specialists I guess, so the hospital employees had to do it themselves.
I saw a thing on tv where the bug-sniffing dog identified the bed bugs on a suitcase! (Think about that when you travel.) They killed them using CO2. They froze them to death, the suitcase thawed and was no worse for the wear.
i've been freaked out about bedbugs for years. i seriously start itching when people even mention them. but in the end, i don't think there's that much we can do to prevent them. i laughed out loud when i read "It’s like terrorism,” said a woman as she ran into the recently sprayed AMC theater. “Just cross your fingers and keep going.” so true.
I had them about 3 years ago. We were lucky though. We actually got rid of ours! We bombed/sprayed/wrapped our mattress and put double sided tape down between our bedroom and the living room where we slept for a week.
Those things can live without eating for 18 months! And if say your bed is infested and you sleep else where... the bed bugs can sniff you out up to 1/2 mile! EWWWWWWWW!
Have you ever gotten bitten by bedbugs? I did once in Africa and it was awful. The little suckers drew blood and left welts.
It's not just NYC though. I've heard of infestations all over San Francisco, Seattle and other major cities, (like Denver as MS mentions). I've diagnosed patients with bedbug bites.
It makes me not want to travel for work (or anything else for that matter!)
we lived in an apartment building that got infested with them.. ugh it was a nightmare but after all the spraying and treating the matresses we got rid of them.. phew!
I was bitten bad by bedbugs, but not in NYC. I was at my parents shore house in NJ before they tore it down to start a new construction, my Mom didn't think it made sense to buy all new furniture and linens for 1 summer so the old owners sold it to her completely. I immediately ran to my dermatologist once I got back to NYC and she diagnosed me and my poor Mom had to replace all the carpeting, linens and got special mattress bags for every mattress.
I joke that I'm like a bed bug sniffing dog b/c bugs LOVE to bite me, so if there are ANY in a room they will come straight for me!
my fi and i had them when we lived in chicago. i am not lying to when i say that it was the most emotionally traumatizing thing to ever happen in my life. fi wasnt affected by their bites, but i was and it was terrible. i was scared to go to bed at night. i wore a long sleeved shirt tucked into pj pants and tucked my pj pants into socks and they still bit my hands and neck. we had to throw out all of our furniture and put every fabric item (clothes, pillows, towels, shoes, bed linens, EVERYTHING) into the dryer. IT WAS AWFUL. buuut when we moved, they didnt follow us, thank goodness!! it is possible to get rid of them though, just be on the lookout! good luck!!
About a year ago I moved from UES to Gramercy. About 2 months before I moved, I started to get HORRIBLE MASSIVE bites all over me when I slept -- in the 3X breakfast-lunch-dinner pattern.
I have massive allergies to all bites (mosquitos, etc) so they swelled to several inches. And this was every night. I told my landlord, but he knew I was leaving in 2 months.
I slept in full body spandex. With fans on me. With the lights on. Covered in Deet. I even slept on our balcony, in the common room, and once on an air mattress in on our kitchen floor.
Until I moved out - and haven't been bit since! - thank GOD!. Point is, that besides the logistics and the practical hassle (and money!) ---- the mental strain and paranoia of bedbugs is UNBELIEVABLE. I pretty much made myself go crazy - and it was never confirmed I even had them.
My FI and I have decided that if our apartment gets them --- we're out of NYC for good!!
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It gives me the willies just thinking about them. We don't have bedbugs, but I just keep reading about them popping up all over the city. Empire State Building, movie theater in Times Square, Brooklyn DA offices, clothing stores. Everywhere. Bergorf Goodman has even "hired" a bedbug sniffing dog to come in after the store closes as a preventative measure. It creeps me out, seriously. I have to take the train just about every day where it is cramped and crowded and I'm usually touching someone at one point or another during the ride. We wouldn't have the money to get a dog that sniffs out bedbugs (not that dogs are allowed in the apartment, but I would think the landlord would grant an exception like that lol) but it sure would put my mind at ease! I told my husband that we're going to have to start changing our clothes right as soon as we walk in the door, but even then we have to walk across the carpeted living room and bedroom to get our change of clothes or something. I heard the heat of a dryer will kill the bugs, but we don't have one in our apartment, otherwise I'd throw our clothes in every day. I don't know what we should do to prevent them. Anyone else dealing with this?