r/BedbugOrCloseRelative

Kinda shaken up, it’s my first time dealing with something like this so bear with me lol.
(The title says 30 minutes but I’ve been typing for a hour… yikes😅 so 1 hour and 30 minutes ago)

Any help/advice is appreciated!

I live in a 6 apartment building and I just found this 1 bug at 3am on the living room couch where I happen to be sitting. Google lens says it’s a bedbug.

Context: I’m never in the living room, I moved my mattress out here because I’ve been drowning it in bleach almost everyday of the week (my mattress is white and I split paint on it, bed was/is still a bit wet from the bleach). My room smells like bleach so I was doing another round of bleaching it in the living room with a power wash vacuum this time (I wanted to use the dry setting to get the bleach out faster, don’t ask). In order to bring my bed out I had to move a chair, a box of supplies, and blanket (all stacked on the chair) into the living room. I did 1/4 of the bed went into my room and laid on a sheet on the floor. Came into the living room and decided to bring the sheet and lay on the couch until it’s morning so I don’t wake the neighbors. More than 4 hours go by, and then I see it after coming back from the kitchen with a snack.

I want to figure out what to do and what I might have to get rid of. And a way to ensure I won’t have to get rid of more of my things in the future. I have checked my beds corners and a bit of the inside, I also checked the couch corners, and don’t see anything.

NOT SO FUN FACT: in middle school my cousin had bed bugs and they loved biting me but not him, so I’d like to think that that means there’s not an infection… yet at least…? (That’s me being hopeful as much as possible atp🥲)

Options on where it could’ve came from (honestly just want to see if my room might be the place it came from and how much I’d have to get rid of if it was tbh)

1. My bed (haven’t slept on in over a week, currently covered in bleach)

2. Was already on the couch (single seat couch, no one really sits on, they sit on the other couch next to it)

3. i went over my grandmother’s apartment the same day i bought the comforter (she lives in a bigger apartment building that occasionally has had bugs, i don’t know what kind, I’ve never seen anything besides fruit flies, but she bombs the apartment all the time cause she doesn’t like bugs so idk)

4. I have a pile of clean clothes in the living room (I moved a coat out the pile onto the couch a few hours before I saw it, also put on a shirt from the pile…)

5. The sheet that was on the floor in my bedroom, I’ve been sleeping on that sheet since I started bleaching my bed and haven’t been bitten, and I didn’t see it when I was fixing the sheet onto the couch)

6. Neighbors (l've lived here for 4 years, never seen one til today, all neighbors have been here shorter than me, but still months)

7. I thrift occasionally and was sitting in my bedroom floor when I recorded a haul (it's been 7 days since I went shopping and the clothes went back into a plastic bag and has been waiting to be washed)

How bad is it, what will I have to check/get rid of, or am I jumping to conclusions?😅

In my room: (I can admit it’s a bit messy at the moment, very cluttered, but not dirty)
•stuffed animals
•blanket collection (I have a shelf full of blankets
•lots of comforters (I like switching my room up so I have spare comforters, one on the floor from where I’ve been sleeping since the bed has been wet)
•pillows (also one on the floor from where I was sleeping)
•clothes (I have 2 dressers full on clothes, and a basket of dirty clothes)

In living room:
•my mattress (do I get rid of it? Too scared to take it back into my room, but if it’s not the issue it might be better to take it back in there faster?? Or just buy a new one, but I don’t want to do that until the issue is solved cause it would just be a waste to keep throwing mattresses away)
•couches
•new Walmart comforter
•spare comforters for guests (it’s been a long time since I’ve had guests)
•removed a light bulb out the lamb and sat it on the couch while bleaching my mattress earlier (might not matter but I’m trying to think of everything)
•powerwash vacuum (haven’t used in a while, but I let the bleach run through the tubes before using it on my mattress to make sure it was clean, sat the handle on that couch when I took that break after I cleaned 1/4 of the mattress)
•clean clothes on the floor (it’s all wrapped in a sheet cause I broke my basket lol, I go through the pile every few days give or take)
• new purses/collection (near the new comforter and older comforters that were washed a while ago but haven’t been used since)

Rooms not included in the list:
•Bathroom
•Kitchen
•parent’s bedroom (sometimes sits on the couch in the living room, but not the couch the bug was found on. Minimalist room, 1 dresser, rest of the clothes/shoes in the closet, and a chair)

thanks!

First picture: torso, not itchy, appeared while traveling, slept with shirt and sweatshirt both nights in hotel

Second picture: forearm, itchy spots appeared over the course of two weeks after returning home

Reposted to include pictures/edit post

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