u/Geonorg

I’ve had multiple encounters in my life that I think about daily, one in particular always stands out- when I felt something on my neck while lying in bed, thought maybe it was a hair but it was still there, went to wipe it away and sat up to look and a big roach right there then crawled in my bed. I was so disgusted and terrified and called my dad in but he couldn’t find it, so I stood in my room crying at like 3 am until I found it again and my dad killed it.

I also have insomnia and at the moment I haven’t slept well for about a week and it’s affecting me. So of course tonight I’m going to bed and it’s late and I hear something moving around in the corner of my room like I have before but never saw anything. It was louder tonight and I knew there was something in my storage tub. I got the spray, sprayed my room, walked out to put the spray back and when I came back in it was crawling out and I called my dad and he killed it.

Since then I haven’t been able to sleep I’m too paranoid and can’t stop checking because I’m sure there’s more. I have a big day tomorrow and don’t know what to do. I also have a humidifier because I have bad nasal issues and it helps me sleep but I read that humidifiers can attract roaches and now I’m conflicted and scared. My therapist said she will try emdr with me for my fear of roaches in our next session but that obviously won’t help right now. And since I have restless leg syndrome I always get scared the tingly feeling is a real roach on me. Pls help😭😭😩

I was literally just going to ask reddit if anyone else experiences this weird tingling/itchy feeling like bugs are crawling on your skin, feeling like I’m going insane, when I was scrolling Instagram and saw an ad describing it and it was for restless leg syndrome. I didn’t know restless leg syndrome had anything to do with that although I don’t really know much about the condition anyway. A quick google search and it seems like it matches my symptoms but I wanted to check if this is really what I’ve been dealing with for so long without realising.

It can happen throughout the day but mostly at night and when I’m on the couch/ chair or in bed. I get this tingling feeling like bugs crawling on me but it’s not limited to my legs I get it basically all over my body (back, arms, stomach, head) and not just one or two tingly spots it’s like heaps and I feel like I have to itch it or move around to make it go away. I don’t get to sleep well when it’s bad and I’m also really paranoid because of things like cockroaches which I am terrified of and had one crawl on me in bed as a kid. So now every time these “tingles” are bad I can’t ignore it and sleep, I have to get up and check it’s not a real bug every time and it’s exhausting. It really bothers me because I have no idea what it is and I’m neurodivergent and the feeling is like a horrible tag on a shirt that I just can’t rip off and I’m going insane.

-btw I don’t really get any uncontrollable movements that I’m aware of (idk if this is required to have the condition) but it’s mainly the tingling feeling that makes me feel really uncomfortable and like I need to move/ itch to relieve it. I also haven’t had a refreshing sleep for basically as long as I can remember and I am tired all the time.

Does this sound familiar??