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    • #6094
      Feelinghopeless
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      I’m 2 and a half years in and I’m exhausted.

      I need to be greatful that I’m in a better position than I was this time last year. I was waking up to what felt like 100s of them crawling on my face, to then having them inside my head and causing me to struggle to stand and talk at times.

      The biting is so much better now thanks to hoovering daily with a hepa vacuum and cleaning with kleen green and bleach.

      The problem is my feet still. They buried under the skin, you can literally see the skin move. Nothing will get rid of it. I know that once I get them out of my feet I can finally be free of these things but I have no idea what else to try. Has anyone else had this issue?

    • #6243
      Flgirl
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      I am 3 years into this mess and have noticed that they start by crawling on my feet. I tried soaking my feet in Epsom salt and borax and nothing works! I started putting mite cream and neem oil lotion on my feet every night but don’t notice a difference. I do use co2 cartridges for bike tires to fumigate small items like my laptop, phone, etc. The co2 does help!
      I am at the point now where I will be moving for the 2nd time. I did move 1 year ago and it did help and is not as bad. This time I will bring nothing with me and buy everything new. I might even have to sell my car. I will be going to a hotel before moving to make sure they are off me. I am running out of options and can’t live a normal life anymore. These bugs have caused me to go into isolation and it’s a lonely life.

      good luck to you!

    • #6282
      johndoe
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      This forum is rather tricky to reply to. It didn’t used to be like this everything that was talked on the form was actually in an email and everybody received the email and you can reply to anybody you wanted and everybody on the whole form would see the reply it was very valuable. I hope you can see this one for feet. When the feet are infested the first thing you do is you got to pray to God in the name of Jesus he is the king of kings and the Lord of lords. You must first ask him. I found that if I soaked my feet for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the night in rubber boots from Walmart with a tablespoon of borax and a quart of water in each boot I would walk around and do my chores after taking a shower. And within 2 months I soaked them all off my feet. Before that it was a nightmare I had the strangest Sensations. I had crawling I had biting I had itching I had a rash that looked like strawberries all over the top of my foot it was absolutely the strangest thing I ever saw I tried soaking for only a week twice a day they came right back but when I saw twice a day for 60 days it’s soaked them all off. I also found that if you put a half or a quarter cup of Arm and Hammer powdered laundry soap in each shoe put them in a trash bag twisted up tight and shake it like shake and bake it kills all the bugs in the shoe. And there’s no need to wash the shoes all the time just do that. But don’t breathe the dust of sodium carbonate which is active ingredient in Arm & Hammer powdered version laundry soap. It has bad results of a deviated septum and delayed pulmonary edema says the material safety data sheet for sodium carbonate. So I never breathe the Dust. Also the Arm and Hammer powdered laundry soap is good to put about five cups down on the ground about 25 ft from your house and blow it at the house so that the outside area by your front lawn and sidewalks have no bugs. It works like a miracle and lasts a long time I did do an upkeep of a couple cups of baking soda every month blown in the same way at the house and I would walk away the other direction after I had blown it with the leaf blower while I was holding my breath like a swimmer cuz I don’t like breathing poisons. I never poisoned myself I only poisoned the bug. It worked for a year I never got bit outside again it was amazing and it was amazing for the shoes I haven’t had a bug in my shoes and oh I think it’s going on 15 years now. Because I put baking soda inside of my shoe daily about a tablespoon and you don’t even have to wash your shoes when you do that cuz they don’t stink it’s amazing. And it kills bugs call if you need anything this is Bill my email is doe 1769@yahoo.com

      PS sorry for any typos I use speech to text for this long message I’ll have to reread it but I might have errors still please be forgiving if you need any help I’ll be glad to help I was on the Forum years and years ago and everybody got cured pretty much.

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