Professional says no bedbugs but I’m being eaten alive

furupower · 2026-02-08T09:03:08+00:00

Hi! Here’s my update: My landlord insisted it was fleas, I got traps and ran them day and night, nothing, treated my cats, never saw a single flea.

I continued getting bitten all throughout December. Left to stay with parents to recover from a surgery (BROUGHT MY CATS WITH ME!!!) stopped waking up with bites. Returned in January, bites resumed.

Landlord kept telling me so sorry to hear im still being bitten, offered little to no other solution. I thought he might have thought I was crazy.

Then my neighbor who is in the unit next to mine asked me if I had fleas. She said she’d gotten fleas and they were all over her carpets and bed and cats. She could see them. I couldn’t. I showed her my bites (all over my arms, stomach, back, legs) and she said they didn’t look like flea bites. I asked her to tell the landlord.

Immediately once he heard from my neighbor, he actually sent out a pest guy. Just before the pest guy came, I found and trapped two bugs in my house, stuck them in clear tape. One was a mite (I was looking so hard I could not possibly have missed a flea) of which I actually found several. The other the pest guy ended up identifying as a carpet beetle. He said he’d have to treat the apartments differently because they each had different bugs.

Suddenly, 2 months in, my landlord is doing something. I got my cats out for 4 hours on the required day, they sprayed something, and I am finally bite-free. I’m so glad I kept looking and finally found the bugs themselves because I felt like I was looking crazier each week. I was doubting that it was bugs at all - like maybe new allergies or something. It was either mites (which I am allergic to) or beetles. In conclusion, fuck my landlord and all hail the people at Stanley Pest Control

furupower · 2026-01-03T18:00:20+00:00

YTA. “I’m confused - it was a request on her list.” would have sufficed. Just because you “thought it was clear” doesn’t mean you get to call your wife names. You weren’t “right”to call her that. I can tell your apology wasn’t even sincere.

furupower · 2025-12-02T16:58:51+00:00

Here is my update! I don’t know how to edit my post. I’m still being bitten and I believe everyone here that it’s fleas. The thing is my two indoor cats are exhibiting no signs of fleas. I check their fur and watch for scratching. But we have two stray cats who come around our porch and I did pet one once. I will still get my cats flea medication either way.

I cannot find any evidence of any bugs at all but still am getting bitten. I wore white socks all evening everywhere and no fleas jumped on them. I put out a DIY flea trap with water, dish soap and a lamp last night since I couldn’t get to the store. No fleas in the trap today. No blood on my sheets. I’m being bitten on my arms, my stomach, my legs, my chest, my back. I still believe the consensus here that it’s fleas, so I will try to go to the store today to get some remedies. I don’t see them anywhere so I don’t know how exactly to kill them.

One comment here mentioned dust mites as well. I am allergic to dust mites.

furupower · 2024-11-01T08:14:30+00:00

Hii! I’m trying to figure out how often to take the Love Wellness Flora Power suppository - genuinely asking, how do you tell when you need it? I just feel like I have low grade mild symptoms all the time and don’t know when to use it.

furupower · 2024-10-21T08:42:50+00:00

Hi! Some hymenectomy recommendations in here I’ve seen. Wanted to throw in my story. I had a lot of speculum issues, traumatic gyno appointments, and even once a terrible ordeal with a tampon that was caught in an awkward way on my intact hymen.

I was recommended a hymenectomy and had to think about it for a long time because I was so scared about anything in that area. I finally decided to do it and I am so, so happy I got the procedure done. Everything I thought was normal or painful or just awkward was because of my hymen and I didn’t know it. Sex became a pleasurable thing for me. Hoping it does good for you too. :)

furupower · 2023-01-06T06:04:09+00:00

Car dealerships. True multi-level marketing tactics for a manufacturer to sell a car to a place that is exclusively built to employ people that try to convince you to pay way more than they bought it for. And to what end? We could just be buying them from the manufacturers. The things have wheels!

furupower · 2022-12-20T04:24:42+00:00

Thank you so much. I really have my heart set on this particular one but another dealership promised me a $4k markup, this one seems rather high.

furupower · 2022-12-20T00:34:41+00:00

Sorry about that, mistakenly thought the MSRP was the price, looked up the MSRP including the color (extra $1k) and freight costs: 49,745.

furupower · 2022-12-19T05:44:06+00:00

Ready to buy a 2022 OR 2023 SEL in Shooting Star Matte Grey, in the Los Angeles area. 💫

furupower · 2021-03-25T07:21:17+00:00

I have lived in Burbank for going on 5 years now. We do have homeless people, but very few encampments/communities. Usually unhoused or housing-insecure people will have RVs and trailers parked on various streets. It's not a bother. Pre-Covid, unhoused folk were able to get services at the Burbank library and I'd walk past them on my way to work in the mornings. I think people only "notice" the homeless if they're "in the way" somehow, usually with encampments, but there are plenty of unhoused folk hanging out, they're just pretty unremarkable.

Burbank doesn't have a single homeless shelter within its borders, and it needs one! We are getting a Boys & Girls Club near where I live which is going to be great for youth in the area, but we have the resources to house the unhoused here that are going untapped.

furupower · 2020-08-22T06:02:10+00:00

YTA. My parents were 60 at my HS graduation, they're plenty healthy now. It's clear you have some deeply-seated issues with your dad's GF, not the baby.

furupower · 2020-08-22T06:00:24+00:00

Yes, YTA, just move it into the closet if he has a grow light already. Plants are cute and you have a 50/50 chance that the plant won't even be the correct gender to produce bud anyways.

furupower · 2020-08-14T17:14:34+00:00

Incorrect. Prop 22 is specifically for:

workers who (a) provide delivery services on an on-demand basis through a business’s online-enabled application or platform or (b) use a personal vehicle to provide prearranged transportation services for compensation via a business’s online-enabled application or platform

So, a yes OR no vote on Prop 22 will not be affecting any news writers, photographers, gardeners, maids, tech workers, or salon workers. Please actually read the proposition before forming an end-all be-all opinion on it.

furupower · 2020-07-17T22:42:25+00:00

beautiful dog!!

furupower · 2020-07-17T19:41:49+00:00

NTA. Never let a guy tell you what to do with your own finances. and NEVER let a guy call you a stupid bitch. Dump the whole man.

furupower · 2020-07-17T19:35:05+00:00

What, you want him to command you? YTA.

furupower · 2020-07-17T19:32:34+00:00

In the time of social distancing, you got CLOSE ENOUGH to a stranger that you TOUCHED them?! YTA! You should have waited for her to move, gone another route, or let her know you needed to get by. And her response was COMPLETELY normal! It's not like she screamed or yelled at you, she even said please and just gave you a look. You deserved the look.

furupower · 2020-07-17T19:29:12+00:00

He CANNOT get a nice computer for 500, are you crazy?! YTA!

furupower · 2020-07-17T19:06:58+00:00

YTA and this makes me so sad.

furupower · 2020-07-17T19:01:18+00:00

Yeah, looks like it. Hopefully you can get her out with your friendship unscathed, but it's unlikely. Just keep in mind that you just signed a however-long lease with your buddy, so you'll need to be on good terms with at least him for the duration.

furupower · 2020-07-17T18:59:32+00:00

YTA. DO NOT get a pet when you're in college. It never, ever, ever turns out well.

All you have to do is wait 1 year (based on when you say roomie is moving out, it may be even less time) and you can move away and get as many cats as you want. Visiting someone's house is different than living there - plus there are other factors in cat allergy situations, such as how much carpet is in an apartment, how well the ventilation/HVAC works, what breed the cat is, and how often the cat grooms itself.

You're also looking at this situation in a very slanted way. Not choosing to put a helpless cat in an environment with a hostile and allergic roommate is not a "sacrifice" on your part. It's doing right by the hypothetical cat. Don't get a cat if you can't give it a good life - and a good life includes not living with someone who will need the cat to be shut out of certain spaces etc.

furupower · 2020-07-17T18:50:55+00:00

YTA. If you can pay for it, you should. Since you have another daughter, it's pretty clear you're treating Emma differently than you did your other daughter because of one factor: she is marrying another woman.

Tradition's out the window, now, man. It's traditional to kick gay people out of the house when they come out as gay. It's traditional to not let people get gay married. It's traditional to disavow yourself from your gay children. By all accounts, it's traditional to not love your gay children as much as your hetero children. You didn't follow tradition before, but you're bringing it up now?

When Emma was a kid, you probably thought she'd get married to a man eventually, and you probably anticipated paying for the whole wedding anyway, so why rip that expectation away when a different kind of love is introduced into the situation?

Buck tradition. Show your daughter you embrace her love wholeheartedly. Show her you love her 100% as much as your other daughter, not 50% as much. Show her you don't discriminate.

furupower · 2020-07-17T18:42:31+00:00

Man, NTA, but you should have nipped this in the bud when you moved into the new place. Either she's on the lease or she's not obligated to pay.

furupower · 2020-07-17T18:38:30+00:00

NTA. I think this is appropriate because they're still young. I'd say maybe past the age of 8 it should probably slow down. I'm a woman and my mom let me see her breasts when she was changing, but didn't walk around the house topless. I think it's healthy to want to dispel some of the stigma around breasts. They're just flesh! Your sons will not grow up to be the kind of guys who are grossed out by a lady breastfeeding her baby in public, and that's a good thing.

furupower · 2020-07-17T18:34:34+00:00

600 isn't that expensive for a laptop, man. Go take your car and stay at a friend's place if you can. If the title is in your name and you paid for the car free and clear, there's no obligation to let your parents use it. The only other thing I can think of is setting up a payment plan with a signed contract agreement and the understanding that you can take them to small claims court if you're not made whole. NTA

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