Have you pulled up on the edging of your mattress? That is where they are hiding during the day. You need to pull up on it and spray bed bug stuff along the underside of the edge roping. If you have that bad of an infestation, you will see them.

 

do you live in an apartment or the like ? they may be coming from another unit.

 

Bug bombs aren't very effective against bedbugs. They mostly just get any that have direct exposure to the spray and bedbugs are "hiding" during the day. It's probably not necessary to replace the bed, mattress or box springs. It's possible that your mattress cover isn't tight enough to block the bugs.

Here's a website at Texas A&M that might help.

 

How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs

It is possible to get rid of bed bugs in your house; how quickly will depend on the severity of the infestation. Follow these steps for a DIY bed bug treatment: Use mattress and furniture covers, treat cracks and crevices, and spray room with a professional insecticide like Temprid FX and a bed...

www.domyown.com

 

A year of trying to no avail? I would pay the money.

 

Professional jobs can get up there, and heat treatments cost even more. Get a small bottle of Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate and a 1 gallon hand sprayer. Empty all your dresser drawers and closets, and take the matress and box spring off the bed frame. Mix the bottle to 1 gallon of water, and treat all cracks and crevices along the baseboards, soak the bed frame, treat inside the drawers. They can also be living in the walls. Get a bottle of Cimexa dust, remove the wall outlet covers and switch plates, and apply the dust inside the walls.

 

Diatomaceous earth. You can get it from Amazon but will be cheaper at a farm store if you have one near you (Tractor Supply). We tried 6 or 7 over the counter bed bug treatments and none of them worked. Did the washing and drying for several hours, mattress protector, etc. We came across DE in a forum about naturally getting rid of pests instead of using chemicals.

We were skeptical but had already tried everything we could think of and the bites were driving me batty.

We put the DE around the perimeter of our entire room in a line and then sprinkled it around the rest of the carpet.
We put it in our mattress covering, around the posts on the bed, etc. and left it there for about a week. After that we stopped getting bit and they never came back.

It is extremely dusty, so you may want to wear a mask while spreading it. We also chose to get the "food grade" kind as we had a cat in the apartment and read that was better around pets. (We did not allow the cat in the room the week we had the powder everywhere)

 

Here's what I did- different circumstances but may give ideas. I lived in an apartment. A neighboring unit was absolutely infected with bedbugs shortly before we moved out. I sprayed an indescriminant insecticide (Onslaught) and IGR (NyGuard) all around the our unit. all corners and baseboards, outlets, light fixtures, any possible envelope penetration. I sprayed all around/behind/under/in couches, dressers, cabinets. I also wrapped the mattress. When we moved, we tossed the bed and metal bed frame. I got a uhaul far larger than we needed and spread our belongings around in it. I rented a 400k BTU kerosene torpedo heater and blasted the interior of the uhaul for 5 hours. Haven't had a problem since. I still spray the house liberally.

If you decide to do anything with a kerosene heater, be incredibly cautious. I really don't think I'd try that in a house. An exterminator could be incredibly expensive... 5 digits for a bad infestation.

 

I first noticed a bed bug infestation back in September 2020. It has almost been a year and after numerous attempts to rid them THEY ARE STILL HERE!!! They are only in MY bedroom in the house despite being here for basically a year i've managed to contain them to one room, but they are literally driving me insane with how difficult it is to get rid of them 100% . I treat it and they come back within weeks. Here is a list of what we have attempted :

• Strip bed and wash all sheets and pillow cases on high temp, dry highest temp
• Completely zipped mattress AND box spring in a bag so any bugs in there will get trapped and eventually die
• Sweep, mop, and vacuum the entire floor of the room; it is all hard wood
• Went to Lowes and purchased bed bug foggers and a bed bug kit that has spray foam and liquid spray, did a thorough spraying of the bed frame (we have done this probably 4-5 times now just for them to keep coming back)
• Removed all pictures from the wall and checked behind them for bugs or eggs
• Placed sticky traps on the bedposts to see if they were coming up from the floor, but there were no bugs on it after being there for about a month.

We have been putting off calling an exterminator because we cannot afford it, reading that typical bed bug treatment can cost up to $800. I know that heat kills them but I cant think of a way to heat up the whole room enough and long enough for them all to die. We are on our last resort of completely throwing away the bed frame and buying a new bed frame because we believe it is infested in the cracks and crevices that we cannot reach with the spray, foam, etc. It is a wooden bed frame with panels. I can attach a photo if needed. Any advice, help, or tips?? Any thoughts, ideas? these things are driving me up the wall...

You have to use your selves as bait. Trust me it works.
We had them and got rid of them without doing any of the other things you have described. You simply put the powder around the edges of your matress and sheets. The bug will have to walk through it to get to you. It will die. It only took a few days of this.
My grandkids brought them after visiting our house from an apartment they were living in. This was 20 years ago when the bedbugs first started making their come back in the US.

I was laying on the bottom bunk playing with one of the children. As I looked above. I thought my eyes were decieving me. I saw millions of the tiniest specs crawling on the matress above. They were smaller then a pinhead. I could barely see them except that they were moving. The big ones were hidden in the cracks.
My method got rid of all of them.
The bugs are attracted to carbon monoxide that your body produces. That's why they like the middle of your body so much.
MooseGott above also alluded to this same method that I have described. (Although he did not call it using you self for bait. That is essentially what he did when he put the poision powder on the matress.)
It works....

 

Carbon Dioxide, which you exhale, not Carbon Monoxide.

 

I was never good in biology

 

I have red that talcum powder helps as it sticks to bugs and deprive them of moisture so they die of thirst. If you heat everything to 120F and keep the heat for 1.5-2 hours that should take care of them (and eggs) as well. Neighbors make a big diference. Tey may provide unlimited supply of “fresh” bed bugs. Whan I was a kid, I remember our apertment building ganging up on one of our neighbors. We pulled her and her kids out of her apartment and fogged (appartment not her) with numbeer of cans of insecticide. That did the trick. Well this was early 80s and former USSR. It probably would not fly here LOL.

 

One cup of good Bleach and one cup of Ammonia mixed together in each room.

Mixing such chemicals is not for DIY. It is dangerous and should not be recommended. The thread is 4 years old, so hopefully the OP got his bed bug's under control.

Mixing Bleach and Ammonia - Here's What Happens

Mixing bleach and ammonia produces toxic vapors that can make you sick or kill you. Here's the chemistry of what happens and the compounds produced.

sciencenotes.org

 

It's hot enough here that you can put belongings in a car with rolled up windows and easily reach 120 F.

 

OP was a 1 post wonder.

 

Maybe the bed bugs ate her?

 

It was revived by some guy wanting to mix deadly chemicals and thrust it into the DIY world. I note he is gone.

 

Gone is good in that case.