1nco
Jul 17, 2012, 09:24 PM
I have 7 red bite like marks over my left shoulder and shoulder blade.
I had chicken pox as a child.
The apartment complex I've moved into turns out to have had a bed bug infestation dating back at least 2 years and I had to have my unit treated just over a month ago (once per week for 3 weeks ending 2 weeks ago).
I did find bugs prior to the treatment, and bites, but they were lower on my arms and usually one to three.
These current "bites" were first noticed after I started feeling like I had a sunburn on my left shoulder (which I couldn't have had) and I noticed separate red blotches but not yet bumps; also 2 longer strip mark (same red color of blotches) making me think it was just from my backpack straps (strip marks have since disappeared).
By 3 days all flat blotches had become bumps, most w a slight pimple like point, and the area still burning like a severe radiating sunburn - which I'm noticing more and more. Day 4, more like oval or welp-shaped bumps - still burning.
I've found the same images online of both shingles and bedbugs - I did actually comment on a burning (like acid) stomach ache last week, and was so tired I could barely function, which I've read might be a precursor to shingles... although at the time I thought it was just stress for having to pay to live in a place with recurrent bed bug and roach infestations.
Can anyone tell me if these are bed bugs again - 2 weeks after final treatment - or shingles? I would simply visit my doctor if I'd not just had my annual, and out of pocket since I have no insurance through my job... and my doctor couldn't do anything if it did turn out to be resilient complex bedbugs (frankly I'm hoping it is shingles - at least that I can see an end date to).
Thanks
I had chicken pox as a child.
The apartment complex I've moved into turns out to have had a bed bug infestation dating back at least 2 years and I had to have my unit treated just over a month ago (once per week for 3 weeks ending 2 weeks ago).
I did find bugs prior to the treatment, and bites, but they were lower on my arms and usually one to three.
These current "bites" were first noticed after I started feeling like I had a sunburn on my left shoulder (which I couldn't have had) and I noticed separate red blotches but not yet bumps; also 2 longer strip mark (same red color of blotches) making me think it was just from my backpack straps (strip marks have since disappeared).
By 3 days all flat blotches had become bumps, most w a slight pimple like point, and the area still burning like a severe radiating sunburn - which I'm noticing more and more. Day 4, more like oval or welp-shaped bumps - still burning.
I've found the same images online of both shingles and bedbugs - I did actually comment on a burning (like acid) stomach ache last week, and was so tired I could barely function, which I've read might be a precursor to shingles... although at the time I thought it was just stress for having to pay to live in a place with recurrent bed bug and roach infestations.
Can anyone tell me if these are bed bugs again - 2 weeks after final treatment - or shingles? I would simply visit my doctor if I'd not just had my annual, and out of pocket since I have no insurance through my job... and my doctor couldn't do anything if it did turn out to be resilient complex bedbugs (frankly I'm hoping it is shingles - at least that I can see an end date to).
Thanks