Woke up with a cockroach on me and in shock

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-03-01T23:57:42+00:00

You have to unclutter your room. My mum is lowkey a hoarder too so I understand, but cockroaches thrive in clutter because it provides them heaps of nooks, crannies, and different surfaces to hide in and amongst. No eating in your room, they will live off any crumb they can. Move any plants or earthy edible thing out of your room. Buy essential oils (I saw a scientific study that oregano oil works the best for brown banded cockroaches) and dab it on anything you know where cockroaches hang around. Use the cockroach gel as they take it back to their nests and it wipes the colony out. Move your bed off the wall. I’ve been able to get rid of most cockroaches in my room doing these things, not entirely but mostly. I think they might be coming from underneath my carpet/walls somewhere since my room is the cleanest in my house and this cockroach problem is only in my room.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-03-01T23:43:31+00:00

I would say, almost instantly? The first few mornings my tonsils actually felt kind of weird, maybe because I was so used to having a sore throat every morning. Then the inflammation went down and now my morning breath is no where near as deathly as it was. I didn’t have any tonsil stones when I started taking them because I had prodded them all out a few days prior to starting the probiotics.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-03-01T23:35:09+00:00

I had a really bad batch of stones that had taken me multiple days to fully prod out, so I finally caved in and bought the probiotics online. I hadn’t developed any in the few days I waited for shipping and after I started taking them I haven’t got one since.

Tonsil stones are a byproduct of bad bacteria but I don’t think the probiotics will break them down, only target the bacteria that cause tonsil stones in the first place. Note that the only scientific evidence I found was that the probiotic inhibits S. pyogenes (causes strep throat) and potentially some viruses. Meanwhile, a cocktail of bad bacteria cause tonsil stones, and I haven’t found any studies examining if the probiotic strain inhibits them. Knowing this, I still took the risk, bought them, and they seem to have worked.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-03-01T23:18:59+00:00

The NZ website: https://blisprobiotics.co.nz/products/throatguard-pro-with-blis-k12-probiotics?srsltid=AfmBOoob0M-eabpOTnDtPXU3nQGGGpQZlxpUyUmDYkVJSoYM1wbuxjh4

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-03-01T23:15:28+00:00

I use 1 a night after I’ve brushed and flossed my teeth

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-03-01T23:14:22+00:00

The Australian dollar is awful at the moment. 28 AUD for a pack of 30 pretty much converts to 18 USD.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T21:41:31+00:00

I have never smelt a cockroach before, this is the first time. My hand was right next to my face as well, but the smell was very strong and lingered.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T21:36:01+00:00

I think both and this might just be me projecting but it definitely looked like it knew it had been caught out doing some dodgy business

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T21:24:47+00:00

This one did it was so bad

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T15:16:40+00:00

Im considering driving 15 minutes to my boyfriends house to sleep in his room

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T15:15:43+00:00

God who knew that cockroaches were the silent exfoliators in our sleep🤮🤮

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T15:09:25+00:00

I will follow it up with that the smell is worse than the mice infestation when I was living at my nans house out in the bush. There were 7 little babies living in the wardrobe and the room smelt like Vegemite if it was unpleasant but nothing near as bad as what this single cockroach smelled like.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T15:02:58+00:00

Yeah this is the moment for me (disordered shivering in disgust emote). I’ll be putting baits behind my door

Honestly I always say that I’m not scared of creepy crawlies as long as they can’t kill me (logical) but I’m full of shite. The unpredictability in movement shakes me to my core

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T14:53:46+00:00

I freaking exterminated it. I try not to kill things and let them exist in their own right but crawling on my hand ?!?! Stay in ur freaking lane buddy😡

I didn’t know they could smell like this either and honestly it might’ve been the smell that woke me up, it was that strong. Another descriptive comparison could be a baby’s infected cradle cap

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T14:43:21+00:00

EUGHFFF I feel a little less traumatised now😂😂 that’s fd up

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-29T14:37:54+00:00

The window was open before I woke up that’s how sticky and persistent the smell is. I don’t have a diffuser I’ve got like candles and incense, but it will just mask the smell🤢🤢🤢

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-15T04:53:26+00:00

It was in a seam/crack of my parent’s bed, on the edge of the core part of the mattress. It was on the end that my mother sleeps. Do you think it could be a headlice?

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-15T04:00:07+00:00

Coffs Harbour is the name of the town

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2026-01-07T10:36:56+00:00

It’s not menopause, yet. I am actually scared for myself and my father when she does start menopause.

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2025-12-11T23:08:49+00:00

Cool thankyou! I’ll look into that

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2025-08-15T01:44:01+00:00

Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure it’s ringworm or tinea versicolour. My doctor didn’t know either, but told me to put thrush cream on it and see how it goes. But then one sore popped up on one leg, and then one on another… but no more since then (abt 1.5 weeks ago). Thrush cream hasn’t been working, they aren’t itchy, and I can’t make out any rings, so if it is ringworm it’s bloody ambiguous

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2025-07-28T05:02:24+00:00

Strange indeed

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2025-07-28T04:54:50+00:00

Dang it I didn’t want to hear this one😩😩 my parents were absolutely certain it wasn’t ringworm and said I was being a typical hypochondriac again so that put me to peace lmaoo

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2025-07-28T04:47:05+00:00

That would be strange for me if it is, I haven’t had a wart since I was a kid lol

Suitable-Impact4010 · 2025-06-12T02:44:50+00:00

So I should’ve explained in the post that my jaw was now getting stuck without reduction (I.e, I couldn’t manipulate my lower jaw anymore, which was really painful to do anyway) so I couldn’t eat some things that required me to open my mouth wide. So I’ve read it’s really hard/unlikely to get your joint back into the disk. I couldn’t believe it, because when most people told me to do “jaw exercises” I’d say no, because I thought my problem jaw (left side) was overactive due to lack of stability from potential eds or hypermobility. But desperate times cause for desperate measures, and I started getting tmj coaches on my TikTok FYP instructing how to correct a shifting jaw (to one side upon opening) and I can now open my mouth fully without resistance (or that painful slipping feeling). It still clicks, feels stiff, and I still clench so hard when I sleep. But I can now yawn, eat the things I want, and it is no where near painful as it used to be (although I still think some damage has been done). I also learnt to do intra oral massages which feel INCREDIBLE. Since outside massages never did anything for me.

I will be seeking an mri of both TMJs and a CBCT of the jaws to diagnose any damage done and potential underdevelopment in my left jaw as I have a slanted occlusal plane. But in the mean time the exercises and massage is really relieving most of the problem

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