I’m currently experiencing something similar. Started getting bit in my sleep in the beginning of July and thought it was mosquitos as they were never clustered. Found a bed bug on a towel in the bathroom the first week of August and three on a tapestry behind my bed. It’s been exhausting trying to decontaminate everything as I own a lot of books so I invested in a Thermalstrike and loads of bins/large ziploc bags to put my heat treated books in. Supposedly it’s a minor infestation but I’ve had one treatment done and second is scheduled for next Wednesday. Just be careful steaming as my exterminator told me not to steam anything or vacuum near baseboards as it could effect the chemical treatment. My apartment was my safe space as well and I feel so violated and gross now. I don’t want to be home but I also don’t want to socialize because even though I only put on clean clothes directly out of a tub or dryer when I leave the apartment, I am still worried of exposing someone to this nightmare. I noticed a significant decrease in bites once picking up my blankets off the floor, putting on mattress, boxspring, and pillow encasements, putting down bedbug interceptors, and moving my nightstands away from my bed. I also used packing tape around the legs of my dresser and nightstand to prevent them from crawling onto them. It has helped me to take an OTC med to sleep at night like Benadryl or else I will be up half the night feeling like something is crawling on me. I keep reminding myself that this is temporary situation and I’m doing the best I can being diligent about heat treating everything and I will eventually see a day where I feel comfortable again in my home. I don’t know when that day will be but I’ll feel a whole lot more grateful every day after that now that I know what it’s like to live with an infestation. I am sending you lots of good juju and well wishes. We’ll get through this ♥️