What kind of bugs are biting me?

Question

I'll be randomly laying in my bed sometimes when all of a sudden i'll feel this prickly/itchy feeling on a given spot on my body (A.K.A. Bottom, arms, stomach, etc.) It doesn't necessarily hurt, but it's really irritating and it woke me out of my sleep last night (i'm a really hard sleeper and have managed to sleep through a surprising amount of instances..)

Anyway, the prickly feeling will usually last about 30 minutes more or less, and then fade away. A couple hours to a day later i'll have 1-3 big itchy red bumps on that same spot. The first 2 times it happened I was kinda like "ok, whatever then" but now its getting annoying.

I noticed it's been happening when i'm laying in bed. Not necessarily for a few hours, but sometimes after a few minutes of laying down i'll get that prickly feeling. I immediately get up and check the whole bed/pillows/covers, but I don't see any bugs and wash the sheets just in case. When it happened last night we had just washed the sheets a day ago!

I'm paranoid this is bed bugs but I've checked and I haven't seen any, I don't have any known allergies, and i'm pretty sure i'm not sick. The time these instances happen can range from a few weeks to a few months apart.

Whats wrong with me? Is this possibly bed bugs.. (or another kind perhaps)?

Additional Details
I'd also like to add that the spots where these feelings happen are covered by my clothes. I just looked up pictures of bed bug bites, and it's not like what I have. It looks like mosquito bites, but a bit bigger.

Answer 1

You are definitely bitten by bed bugs. Washing sheets will not get rid of the bugs. Your whole house has to be fogged and everything in it removed including clothes, all furniture, trash all beds mattresses and box springs. Clothing washed off site in hot water and disinfectant detergent and then put in sealed garbage bags. You have to call an exterminator to do this properly. You might not know there is a bed bug pandemic world wide.

The bites can look like swelling under the skin your natural skin color, not red or rash, Those bites can erupt later into red welts,

Call an exterminator. 100's of thousands of people are doing the same thing today.

Answer 2

could desire to easily be a malicious program bite. I actual have had malicious program bites that have had a selection out and raised bump. yet just to be secure make a docs appointment or bypass onto a symptom checker internet site at the same time with webmd.

Answer 3

Listen to me! Ignore the other answer from Iamwonder. No offense. I learned the hard way about all of this and am just now getting back to normal. An exterminator sees a bed bug scenario as a way to make $$$. Even my own uncle who has ran a pest control company for 25 years kinda got over on me, but I don't think he did it intentionally. Most pest companies do not know about bed bugs. I learned more than my pest tech knew from an hour of reading. The best place to find info is bedbugger.com. This site has experts who will help you. Here is what you will find out from that site and all other reputable sites, universities, etc. Do not assume you have bed bugs until an actual expert has seen a bug from your home and confirmed it is a bed bug. Nymph (babies) are hard to see but adults are very easy to see. And bed bug bites can range in appearance and no one can ID from a bite, not even a doctor. My bites look like mosquito bites and were always on my chest/kneck/shoulder area which is usually fairly exposed because I wear tanktops around the house. The best way to check is to look around the rope border of the mattress. Also look on box spring. If your bed has any screw holes or creases look there as well. If you do not see exoskeleton, bed bug, or dots (blood feces) then you probably don't have them, or you have a very minute case. Doesn't sound like what you have is minute so I would guess there is a 60% chance you don't have bed bugs if you search bite room heavily and find nothing. And yes they do hide in screw holes as my pest tech found on in there.

Next order of business and this is important. Fogging is bad bad bad. I learned the hard way and btw my life and job have been on hold for 8 weeks now. I work from home. I am OCD and this has been heck for me. My PCO would go out spray (drag net), dust, and fog. This costs $300 but I paid $175 because my uncle discount. They did this to my home 5 times over 6 weeks. Each time cost 175 except for one free service. Plus there was an extra spray. I believe they are gone, but am not sure. The infestation was in my couch but had made its way a lil to my bedroom. (I only felt bites once on the couch about 2 weeks before I noticed I had a problem). After the first service I chunked couch, love seat, chase, and mattress box spring over back deck and paid someone to take to the dump. I have learned that you are not in the clear until you haven't seen a bug in a long time. A good suggestion is 60 days. I haven't seen a bug now in about 2 weeks! Fogging and such will kill the bug, but it is not the quickest cheapest way. Fogging any pest causes the pest to go into hiding in the walls. Then later they come out and even though they walk thru the spray, the effects are min because the spray is old and weak. Here is the best method and I would burn my house down before I did this but maybe you are stronger than me (and this is only if you actually have them): Have a pest tech spray with strong spray and continue sleeping in same spot. They will walk through spray to get to you and DIE. Also buy some DE demascus earth (which is spelled wrong). This is natural material that is ok to humans as long as you don't breath it in. Any bug with outer shell that walks thru this will get shell cut and die. It takes about 2 weeks to die, but it is a sure death. Get DE that has nothing added and is food safe de. I bought from Pure Earth last week. I am going to use this from here on out so I bought 30 lbs of it with a duster for about $60 after shipping. Do not take my word for this but research and you will see time after time that everyone who knows anything online says do not fog. Do not do it. If I had listened 8 weeks would have taken 4. If spraying and DE doesn't work there is thermal treatment which is where someone comes in and heats your house to about 140 degrees. In my area it costs $2500 to do but then you can safely keep your furniture. Too bad I didn't know this before. If you do have bed bugs then be prepared to go through one of the toughest small things of your life. Be informed by the researching and you will come out ok and do so quickly. I trusted the wrong people. Bedbugger.com is the best website I have found. People on there will ID pictures too if you need help. I hope for your sake that you have anything but bed bugs. I am 2 weeks into my 60 days. I have slept on a hard couch in my basement for 8 weeks after sleeping for 4 days in my car. I would not go to hotel because they are full of bed bugs. Thank God I have a basement, because they travel thru walls but they don't like to go extremely far and evidently it is hard to travel down stairs. Otherwise I would have spent last 8 weeks in my car. Best of luck to you.