No One Believes Me

[cathy]

no one believed me either at first. My son was telling my grandkids that i was losing my mind. i was very upset. I was bound and determined to prove to everyone that I was sane. I used clear mailing tape. stuck strips of it on the nightstand. when i felt these bugs crawling on me i would slap the tape where i felt them. caught them and was taking samples to my local ag dept., pest control agencies and my doctors. After seven attempts with pest control companies i found one that was willing to help me. We have sprayed so much that we are getting ill. I have been researching tenting and fumigating. No success. bugmites.org is the only thing that i have been able to get help from. all these things help but still they come back. ive been reading this blog and have found some new ideas that seemed to help others. following faithfully. Praying for an end to this nightmare.

[Portate]

I hope that someone has had more luck than me. We have spent over $10,000 on extermination companies that told us they would get rid of the pests. Most of them kept telling us it couldn’t be bird mites because they can’t live on human blood. Unfortunately, they seem to be doing just fine on mine. We have been fighting them for 3 years now. The problem started when a bird built a nest in our bathroom exhaust fan duct. During the same time, we had to open up a wall due to a water leak. This hole gave the mites an entry point once the birds left the next. At first we thought it was bedbugs. The first exterminator treated us for this pest. Nothing they used was working. We had them coming back weekly for several months, using a variety of pesticides and nothing worked. After using all of the extermination companies and paying so much money, we still have the mites. We have no more money to spend. I have been using multiple pesticides, natural oils, etc. We still have them. Our home is completely infested. Of course, it is impossible to sleep at night. We tried to get a positive identification from our local Health Department. No luck there. They came in and took samples three different times. I layer different repellents on my skin in order to help keep them away, but even these aren’t helping. The mites seem to bite right through them. (I vacuum daily, spray with alcohol, wash bedding, etc. daily in hot water with Borax. Nothing has worked.) I am looking for any new product that may help.

[ForeverMiteWar]

I have had a very similar experience. Nearly every expert or authority I have contacted to try to get to a resolution has been dismissive saying that this problem cannot possibly be real. “Mites don’t behave this way.” “They can’t sustain life on human blood.” Which is confusing to me because mange mites and scabies exist, why is it such a far-fetched plausibility that other parasitic mites could exist?

Two pest control companies have tried and then given up. I had to collect my own samples on glue boards and find them with a microscope to get the consulting entomologists to identify them. Most of them agree they are a species of bird mite. Either Red Chicken mites or Northern Fowl mites, one said it is a mix of both. Even with that proof, both pest control companies have refused to take on the work to solve it and would not provide me documentation of the identification for me to take elsewhere. I had to catch more samples and send them off to the local state university extension office to get documented proof and suggestions of how to resolve the issue. I sent this documentation to the county health department and got some more suggestions in return but they are all of the same things people have been discussing here for years and are only marginally effective. I took the documentation from the health department to medical professionals to seek treatment for parasites and was refused care and had my concerned dismissed.

We are almost entirely on our own to fight this as there is very little incentive for anyone else to care or invest their time and I can’t entirely blame them because who would want to be anywhere near this if it meant the possibility of potentially ruining their own life in the process?

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