Long story short: I can't afford an exterminator. Been following advice found here, starting ten days ago. It's a light infestation as far as I can tell-never found fecal or shed skins, saw very few live bugs EXCEPT the harborage I found on the curtain, which was immediately disposed of (triple bagged, taped, outside trash far from house).
Single family home. Infestation is only in my room.
I deep cleaned, bagged things, bought encasements (to eliminate hiding places), sprayed, puffed the crawling insect powder in all the appropriate places. Immediate reduction in bites. No one was bit for a week and only found one dead bug in that time.
I failed to pick up my box spring when I last sprayed, two days ago (second treatment, 9 days in) woke up with bites. Lifted box spring today and found about 9 fed nymphs, and one slightly larger that I don't believe was an adult, but was bigger than the others.
I expected to see some activity from eggs hatching but this has me shaken up.
I'm not using climb ups, bed is only partially isolated (encased and away from the wall), I'm spraying JT eaton every week, vacuuming daily, running a lint roller over the bed daily in the morning to find those pesky non fed nymphs who are nearly invisible on white sheets, frequent laundering of bed clothes, and am planning on flipping the whole mattress and springs daily to manually remove anything I find with my trusty lint roller. I'm continuing to sleep in my bed, as bait. No bedding is allowed out of the room unless it's in a bag to go in the wash. Clean clothes are now in the living room.
Can you recommend anything else I can do? Does that many newly hatched bugs mean I'm losing?