I've had this same problem for three months now. I got it from a used armchair that I bought, I started to feel the crawling right after I sat on it for a while the first time, and it hasn't stopped but for small periods of time since. It's really thrown my life off its usual tracks and changed a lot of things for me.
I haven't hugged anyone properly, nor had sex or touched my partner for three months now. I'm not intimate with anyone, that's the bloody worst thing. The isolation that comes from this, both the physical isolation of not being able to touch other people the way I'd like, and also the fact that nobody know about this thing and you can't really talk to most people about it at all, because no one knows anything.
Right now I've thrown most of my possessions away and am considering throwing the rest away too. I laundry every day like 2-3 loads, and it still doesn't remove the bugs completely.
I'm panicking half the time, wondering if I've infected my school and my work with these bugs, and if someone else in those places will get them from me. Has this happened to any of you? I haven't read many accounts of people transmitting the bugs to others like this, I think I've mostly read about cases in which people's partners or siblings or other family have gotten infested with them. I've lived with one roommate this whole time and he hasn't reacted to the bugs at all, when I've been suffering from them all the time. It feels really scary that I don't know almost anything definite about these bugs, except that they're difficult as **** to get rid of.
my thoughts are with you all who are struggling with the same problem, with its invisibility and difficulty. Lots of strength and courage to you, I hope we'll find some proper cures for this sometime soon!
I have bugs that are invisible, like the darkness, get into bed with me and disappear when I sleep with the light on). They congregate in my head of hair and seem to work their way down to my arms. For some reason, they do not like my legs...thank goodness. I have used dust mite solutions, spray and the rest of anything on the market. . I have had 3 pest control companies come - all say they see nothing...Of course! I told them they were invisible! I sent a ton of scotched taped bugs I found anywhere and everywhere in my house to the Entomology Dept in Gainsville FL at the University of Florida. That was more than a month ago Still waiting to hear anything!. I am ready to set my house on fire with everything in and on fire...NOT REALLY. I would be so grateful if anyone could tell me how to rid these things. Right now ,in the daylight, they are interfering with this response,
I actually have begun to kill them when they are around me and after closely observing the bug and researching flies I think my problem is a phorid gnat. They are at my job, wherever I go and people swat at them but soon my coworkers will figure out where they come. I have little ones and I worry they will have them soon. I am so worried. This has consumed me for the past month. That's when I saw the flies but I had seen a dermatologist for dandruff a year ago and was prescribes ketaconozole shampoo. Who knows if this was happening to me last year.
Also, my home has recently attaracted other insects (lady bugs, spiders, beetles, etc), Anyone else have this?
I have had the exact same experience of putting an item of clothing in a ziplock bag and then feeling the darn things fly onto my hair and into my eyes when I open up the bag a few weeks later. One day I even felt them fly off another person's clothing into my eyes - like an invisible snowball! - when the person walked past me on the street - so that is why I think a change of diet or some kind of scent to repel them is needed to keep them away from me for good. Things are much better since I threw all my infested clothes away and started fresh. I am ziplocking individual articles of clothing still though to make sure one article of infested clothing does not ruin my whole wardrobe again as I can't afford to start fresh again. I am keeping a bit of borax powder in each bag along with the clothing article. It seems to help stop them from multiplying or neutralizes / kills them.
I have had this exact problem for nearly ten years now. It seems to come and go and varies in severity but is pretty much a constant feature. My children, me and my partner all experience it, we all feel the crawling, see hairs moving, smell like 'sun burn', see white particles fall off our skin, we all have lost loads of hair and we all feel the pin pricks, especially at night. One thing we have done to reduce (but not cure) it is spray the ENTIRE house with bleech and rubbing alcohol. We feel them jump onto our faces from CD cases, books etc - so we spray, spray, spray. It helps keep it under control and the sensation goes from being swarmed by it to just feeling itchy. The hair loss in all of us us now quite severe, my daughter is 11 and has obvious bald patches, my don is 4 and had the thi set hair I've seen on a child, I'm nearing the point of shaving it all off and my partners hair now clogs the bath, the sink and our Hoover.
No doctor in 10 yrs has had the faintest idea, hair specialist have no clue, pest control people think we're mad and still the problem continues.
I have the same thing. I'm going to post to him. I'll tell you guys what I've learned so far. Wanted to bring it to your attention because the glitter thing fits too. I may know what it is.