It may be time for a new mattress.
15 years ago, I made a commitment. I vowed to love, appreciate, and care for my beloved mattress until…
…okay, well, that's about where my analogy breaks down.
I scrimped and saved from my minimum wage job at a flower shop until I had saved $699. That was a lot of money for a 16 year old (especially one earning about $7/hr). But I did it because I'm stubborn, and dangit, I wanted that pillow top mattress.
Pillow top mattresses were all the rage, ya know?
No? You don't know? Pillow top mattresses weren't on the top of your priority list when you were 16? Am I totally alone in this?
Irregardless.
The $699 pillow top mattress was delivered to my parents doorstep a few weeks later and since that day, I've been putting it to use each and every day. I did the math – it equates out to about 5,840 sleeps (minus a few vacations, etc.).
5,840 sleeps.
And if I'm being honest here, it was all great until about sleep #3000.
At about sleep #3000, the ‘ol girl just wasn't cutting the mustard. My neck ached. My back ached. My hips ached. The four pregnancies didn't help.
But I slapped a memory foam on top and made due for the next 2000 sleeps.
But then, it got even worse. And no, it wasn't just because of the body pains.
Are y'all even ready for what I'm about to tell you? Brace yourselves.
The mattress had a temporary home in the living room while it was being removed.
A few months back, as I was drifting off into sleep, I heard a weird chattering noise. Kind of like a squeak. And then a sort of funky thumping noise. It got weird. Weird enough that I woke Stuart up (who always manages to fall asleep before me, magically) and said “I think there's something under the bed.”
“Like what?” he growled back.
“A demon, I'm pretty sure.” I chattered back. “Yep, I'm pretty sure it's a demon.” Now, I'm no sissy, after all – we live in the middle of orchard country on a farm. Pests and nasties happen. But… you'll never guess what I found in my mattress that night.
He rolled over in bed and threw his head down to peek underneath.
A PACKRAT. A PACKRAT. A PACKRAT THE SIZE OF A CAT.
Time for a new mattress, perhaps?
Before we could even process the fact that there was (literally) a cat sized rodent IN OUR MATTRESS we had the whole thing flipped up on its side against the wall. Now what makes this even more humorous (or frightening) is that our bedroom is literally the size of most people's linen closets. We have about 2 feet of room on each side of our queen bed to move about, so to flip the mattress and box spring up, and then maneuver around the bed frame still left in place, was ridiculous. I'm stumbling and stammering about trying to simultaneously scare the rat out of our mattress with my shephard's crook while handing Stuart a box large enough to catch the critter.
This isn't the type of critter you squish. I'm not talking about a wasp or even a mouse, here people. This creature was huge.
Thirty minutes later, we'd yet to catch it, as it kept burrowing up into the mattress and dodging our eviction actions. Burrowing into my mattress, y'all.
I won't tell you how we eventually got the rodent out, because I know there are enough squeamish people reading this blog to warrant some discretion, but know this: the packrat was eventually removed from the bedframe.
I, in shock, could barely sleep. Did it have babies in there? Did it leave it's disgusting rodent poop to fill our mattress with toxins? Had it chewed up all the insides? Did it have friends?
Nasty chew marks in the mattress courtesy of the hobbit, circa 2014.
The next morning, I began to research new mattress. Mattresses that hadn't ever been home to rodents. But I, like most consumers, found myself completely overwhelmed. Too many choices left me at an absolute loss for what to choose. So instead of acting, I froze in fear that I'd make the wrong decision (as if somehow the entire world would come crashing down if I chose the wrong one). Consumer fear. It's a reality, man.
So I did what I always do.
I went to my dearest, crunchiest friends and say “Give me your best suggestion for non-toxic mattresses. Stat.“
Years ago, when I first began researching a new mattress (back around sleep #4500), I was exposed to way too much information on the “off-gasing” of new mattresses and the toxic-load that is brought into your home with one. Regulations dicatate that new mattresses must be treated with flame-retardants (read: harmful chemicals). Mattress toxicity sounds made up, but it's reality. But there are a few companies out there fighting the good fight and producing non-toxic mattresses that use natural flame repellents that still meet regulation standards.
Free of rodents. For our sleeping pleasure.
Every single friend I asked had the same answer: IntelliBED.
Use code ‘HOMESTEAD' if you also need a new mattress, sans rodents, and save some money, baby.
Our non-toxic mattress arrives today which means in a few short hours, I'll be removing the worn, broken, stained, God-only-knows mattress from our bedroom for good. And possibly lighting it on fire or running it over with my truck.
Will a good mattress make a big difference in our sleep? In our aches and pains? Lord, I hope so. I'll keep you posted. Because these ‘ol farming bones need a bit of relief!
Isn't this how your living room looks on any given weekday afternoon?
It's time for a new mattress. And today is the day. Celebrate in the small victories with me, won't you?
Small victories at the moment: no further rodents living in the bed.
And Amen.
I can’t believe you posted this today. Our mattress was a 10+ years old pillowtop that had 2 different pads and toppers to keep it in use. And today…. out of nowhere… we found bought and brought home our own brand new mattress. Of course I don’t have the pack rat story but it’s ironic none the less!
How do I comment cause it feels like my matress is moving but not to look crazy I’m not going to cut it open
My pop n my son think I’m crazy when I said there are rats in my bed. They made me call my Drs about a chemical imbalance. Gotten mad at me for even saying rats or mice. Well she had babies in my mattress n they are big. Call exterminator n still they both called me crazy. Today I seen one of the babies n it scared me to no end. But if I say rat they want to take me to hospital. Mom your on chemo n they are taking alot of blood out of you. So I told my son to flip up bed so I can vaccum under it. All my little buddies just freaking out. I ran faster then my son. Be careful if u flip it they get mean
Hi Karen,
Even night after I am ready to sleep or am asleep, my (Top padded) mattress begins to have movement under me, beside me and at the foot of the bed. I thought that Had restless leg syndrome, but my legs are OK, it’s the mattress, which is a pillow top on the top and bed springs on the bottom. I recently purchased moth balls and (placed bags )on the four corners of the bed and the movement stopped on one side of the bed, but something is still there. It’s scary. You say that the rats that you found were BIG. It guess it’s time tom call for help. I just purchased that mattress 3 years ago off the floor room floor display, and it was expensive. My cat who died expectantly in December was working after these critters, maybe they were too much for him. He just up and died under the bed. The movement at night in my bed seems big. GET THIS-I have mouse deterants, clickers all over the house, but I guess that’s why these companies have been sued. These clickers seem to work in my hot tub building, because I do not want to replace the wiring that’s been chewed through. Well,I guess outside help is needed, because I do not want to come FACE-TO-FACE with any large rodents. I hope that these ones do-not have rabies, since they are so brazen and bold to just take over my bed with me in it. Good luck to both of us. Thanks for sharing your story.
I had similar problems as La Verne. The exterminator was no help. He set traps and I purchased sticky poison pads and added peanut butter, then set them into a few floor vents, with NO TAKERS, so I adopted a 13 year old loud mouth cat. So far no movements are felt under me while I sleep. This all started when I had new air conditioning installed and the technician cleaned out ALL of the floor vents. Afterwards the cat that I had, seemed busy at night under the bed and at the foot of the bed. One day I found him dead with two Deer mice that were also dead. Maybe the new cat really does more than just eat, sleep and beg for more food. Time will tell.
I have an air mattress, due to multiple hip surgeries of a bone eating disease, with no entry point, for 6 days or more there’s been a mouse in it, I can’t believe he is still alive, my caretaker thought I was going crazy, because there’s no opening, too my surprise this guy is still alive, and bothers me mainly at night, I deflated the bed and banging everywhere, to my surprise he didn’t die, they are annoying rodents, they want to be near you, like they are your friend, I’m creeped out by this. Omg.
I am renting a room from my former neighbor. I used to own a cleaning company and have learned that my standards of clean are usually different than most others. Unfortunately, I am right now sleeping on a mattress listening toy new friendr mrs rodent settle in for the evening. . I am sleeping on my white sheets which have pencil black dots and orand shells indicating the presence of a bed bug gestation. Oh, one more thing, boring beetles. Exterminator (friend of owner) said I was wrong) shoes himy bites the rat poo I saved along with rat poop, bed bug m beetle. Nope. I was paranoid. Well I have very bad skin cancer that has spread to my lymph nodes and because I was told I would be dead by now.. but I am not.. I have sold everything I own. Still leaving. Rather be on a bench in
get this i,m ex BlackOops and this shit is crazy I whom lead many missions can’t figure this out I can jump out at 25000 feet at nite into water eith 300 pounds and not drown been all over world in enemy’s backyard without getting caught i,I, stumped Lol. I,m laughing cause it makes me so dam mad. I can’t shoot everything up my Sis would get a little upset. Lol
I so feel your pain Karen, same experience and that’s what I keep telling my mom, my pillow top mattress was and is full of the devil rats and they burrowed in there in such a way as not to leave much sign , heck I even got committed over “imagining the rodents ” always trust your self and never let others stear you wrong
I’m probably to late to respond just last night I fell something moving in mind I have a pillow top I going crazy then I go get on my couch the same thing all my things comes from C. I think I am going to a hotel
Max does C. stand for?
I have a memory foam mattress. Have been having an issue with nice in apartment and feel movement in my bed. However, I do not see chew marks and exterminator did not think they were in bed. What else could it be. Please help
Oh my gosh this seems to be going on in other peoples beds to ????
I was starting to feel crazy my family treats me like I’m crazy.
I feel and see my bed move but just dont understand either because the is no chew marks but does it mean that it’s not a possibility?
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am acracy because there are no signs of anything
Jas i am feeling the same thing and i did go to city furniture where i bought it and they looked at me like im crazy
my med woman wanted to put me on a new medication!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats happening with mine aswell it feels as if something is inside the mattress ive only had it for 2 months i was searching myself to see why it does it and come across your comment did you work out what is causing it if so could you kindly let me know very stressful
I have been having the same issue for 3 months. I threw out my old mattress and purchased a new bamboo mattress. I got one good night sleep and now the same thing all over again!!! It is freaking me out!! I purchased mice and rat repellant and sprayed it all over my bedroom including my new mattress still having moment!
For months I have been feeling something moving under me. My daughter sits on my bed and feels nothing. My son and grandsons picked up the mattress and there were no chew marks anywhere. But I still feel something every night. I can get a new mattress but who’s to say they won’t get in that too. Everyone thinks it’s my rls, but I know the difference and it’s driving me crazy and my kids think that I am. I’ve got traps and those plug ins but it hasn’t helped. I dont know what to do HELP
I just bought a new mattress, simply because I felt something moving inside the old one, and now I feel that same moving and gnawing in the new one as well, canāt even find any way a mice can get in. I told my daughter about it she even slept in my bed but said she didnāt feel anything all night. She told me that I was just stressed from this pandemic. No!!! Iām not, there is something wrong, I can feel something moving in couches and chairs when I go to other peopleās house. 2020 has really brought in some weird SHIT!!!
Same with me driving me crazy an I know Iām not. I actually cut hole in new mattress put my hand in an I got an electric shock now I keep getting something come close to me an even feels like it caresses me at times. Thinking of throwing my brand new mattress out any leeway on yours?
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again
I just brought my mattress in May and it is now September there is rodents in my as soon as I get the courage up I will cut it open and see I think that’s my landlord’s problem 2 get rid of I feel that he has to reimburse me for a new mattress
Please help Iām having the same issue but with me and my two boys beds help please pest control isnāt and my family thinks Iām crazy and my doctor does too. Please please help
Your not crazy. My mattress made by zinus moves and makes little rodent noises. I have cut a small hole and these rodents are in there. They go to the middle . Everybody thinks I’m crazy.!!!!! Your not crazy!!!!!! I mean in a little anyway but there are rodents in there. At night they go crazy.
I am just curious do you have any health issues such as cancer or any auto immune diseases. And I do believe you
I canāt believe Iām not alone, I have 2 cats and they are very aware of these creatures. This one cat sits on the corner of my bed just waiting for this mattress bastard to slip up and she be dead on its ass while the other cats waiting in the hall just watching. I got a base ball glove Iām gonna take this rodent and slap a home run in its ass with this ugly stick. Feels like this things trying to eat a NYC subway system in my mattress. Iām gonna be in thee cocos nest while these free loaders live in my bed. I be in a straight jacket and they be eating cheese an crackers in my bed. Bastards.
I have lupus! I can smell them even Iām on my 3rd bed my mom came and felt nothing my family doesnāt believe me went to the doctor bc Iām scared itās making me sick and he thought I need to stay off the internet. Termex and orkin didnāt believe me set traps with pb have clicky things Iāve tried Everything I just want a good night rest itās been months please help me guys
I have lupus! Please help!
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again
My mattress is moving too. I can’t decide if I want to get a new one.
It just started moving about six months ago. I’ve had for about five years.
DONT DOUBT YOURSELF, mattresses don’t move on their own unless you are in some kind of cheap motel, do yourself a favor and get rid of it unless you are brave enough to handle what’s in there
It’s NOT you and you’re mental stability is precisely above normal if you’re able to even notice how slow these rotten homewreckers do what they love and that’s keeping us from a home and I have vid proving they aren’t seen,and it’s amazing how to make feel undefeated! I’m not sure what breed and know the pros are in denial cuz I was told to get a Exorcism done LOL! Ii tried to put an aircleaner and milk crate to block entrance but they bent the crate and started forcing the toilet floor bolts out and 2 sheriff’s saw. I just drizzled liquid laundry soap along the wall where my bed is and they’ve stopped pushing my matress on the floor intermission till I lay to sleepš¤¦
Omgoodness I am super terrified as is about sleeping since I have seen mice in my house and I live in Baltimore City which is full of rats so I thought it actually was a win maybe that it was “just” mice even though the “just” mice really frighten me. I began seeing little droppings on end of my bed and mind you I do NOT eat in my room. I lifted the box spring and mattress for cleaning and noticed my box spring had cardboard under it and what looked like someone punch a little half hole …. I put tape on it thought maybe It had been there and got there when I moved in… Anyways droppings still came after deep clean and so did tiny teeny bugs making tiny teeny cocoon looking things all over so exterminator came after I at this point had remover every piece of fabric possible to clean and dry special… Tell me why exterminator that maintenance had sent, told me they did not see any bugs or evidence and even though I had three pics on phone, the pics were not “clear enough” and I also had bite marks just one on my cheek and couple around my hairline and one on my shoulder.. anyway they did nothing idk what more proof I could give them I wanted to say you stay here for two nights then and then have me tell you you must be dumb and making it up for no reason at all …
Ok point I took too long to get to lol – so when I have been sitting on my bed reading a few nights now I thought I too was crazy seeing little tiny movements on my pillow on other side of me like as if something was lightly bumping into in under it but when id lift pillow and jump the other way expecting something to attack, I’d see nothing… So I am officially more traumatized reading this that I specifically stupidly asked for literally (Google) .. I wanted to know was there signs of rodents prior to finding the rat?? Bc I have been sleeping the tiniest bit better thinking that if it was a rat that there would be no way I’d miss it … I am so squeamish now and literally considering sleeping on my children bunk bed during the time they aren’t with me. I can’t even with any of this and maintenance is beyond making me mad and lose sleep.. I have document each time, text, call, email, and pic I have sent them regarding needing immediate and serious pest control. I don’t want to spend couple hundred on a new bed with the actual real problem being still here ya know
My mattress was moving like waves on a lake, sometimes bumping hard up under me . We lived in the country and had the mattress for a while so I bought another and took the old one out backyard. Myself, my Dad, my niece, we all tore into it down to nothing but the springs. To my surprise guess what we found? Absolutely nothing. I was sure there were mice under there, so I just donāt know. Iāve moved since and have had the new pillow top mattress for mabey 8-10 years. Now itās starting to bump, not hard but enough to get your attention. I pray, take some swallows of bourbon and go back to sleep.
340am i have a crow bar in my hands banging down inside My couch. There is a baby mouse F-N with me I’ve never been a animal lover but I’m so miserable I will grow to lovd animals because Im Getting a dam CAT asap.My partner is on the Couch right next to me but this annoying creature is F n with me while he sleeps like a baby I’m spraying pepper ment oil an slinging a dam crow bar oh an work is at noon.Thsnks for sharing so glad you get to sleep me don’t see it happening, why is this thing bothering me?damit it’s like a child playing keep running back smh
This is crazy stuff I ve looked time and t I’ve sgsin been outside countless times checking on aramedellas. Killed s bunch but my room is a addition I can’t crawl under just had major surgery with I need help I can’t s leap it,s driving me ban a nas
NO ONE BELIEVES ME! I feel them running around the edges of the bed! I hear them gnawing sounding like a saw on wood. I have laid glue traps, tried top cat (whatever the with th sneaky cat) and green bricks that are toxic? I have those little boxes everywhere, tried regular traps, have glue traps, spray, peppermint spray, AWW… but I see No droppings.
I did catch a mouse or two but now I intend to build a glue trap fort around the entire perimeter to see what happens. They follow me like baby chicks!! I left the bedroom for the couch. They came. I returned to new mattress, they came. Now how can I convience my landlord to buy me a mattress?? This is #3 but my evidence is scrace. So is my sanity>>
I forgot to mention that the mattress with the rats living in it is a Foster & Stern $3000. I want to include the note that I sent to the company below.
Hi,
I purchased a queen Sterns&Foster plush mattress from JC Penney ($3000.00)
two years ago , a floor model, as they were not going to sell mattresses any more. I want to mention that your pillow top with a box springs bottom attracts mice and rats to nest in the plush pillow top.
I so enjoyed my mattress at first, that is until my cat passed away recently and rats have moved into the pillow top portion of my mattress.
Your company might consider building a mattress that will not allow this happen. I gogled my problem on line and learned that this is a problem with other mattresses as well.
I am in the process of informing my 2,000 friends on facebook about my problem to warn then to reconsider purchasing pillow top mattresses without boxspring bottoms, even the most expensive, and comfortable.
Thank you for your time. Gosh I am going to miss my first experience with a Sterns &Foster mattress, because it’s got to go! Thank you, La Verne
The same thing happened to me. I had a king size Stern’s &Foster mattress I loved. I have worked myself to death to buy. At night it felt like I could feel movement at my feet. It felt like I could feel their heads under my feet and legs. My family lifted the mattress during the day and could find nothing. They too thought I was crazy. Maybe it is neuropathy. The strange this was I never saw any signs but did find a very small little split in the mattress top. Then I moved into the living room. I could not stand trying to sleep with whatever that was in my mattress. I tried to sleep on a five foot footstool and it began to move. I tried to sleep in the recliner and it began to move too. I could not place enough pillows under my legs to keep from feeling them when I tried to sleep. One day the smell was terrible and driving me crazy. I started spraying Fabreeze at the foot and began to wet the fabric as I emptied the bottle on to the chair. All of a sudden you could see them all moving up the chair. It was like it was breathing eight house later. No I was never going to try to sleep there again. I had filled it full of moth balls and rat poison. Still no signs until I strayed them. I had my family remove all the furniture and put it outside. I purchased some used hospital recliners from a guy and a chair from the hospital that makes into a bed. I bought a twin used bed and placed it in the back bedroom as I knew there were no mice in there. It was nice for three weeks to sleep in a real bed. Then one night I felt them but thought it was an imagination. It was not my imagination. Then the smell was back. It went outside too. When it did the horrific odor went away after a few days of airing out.
Now I am back in my living room trying to sleep on the chair that makes the bed. I didn’t think they could get inside it. The chair has a heave plastic and a wood bottom. But I am crazy again .one person even tried to tell me it was evil spirits. Yep sure is. I know they will have four legs. I am at the end if my rope. It’s not as bad as all the other furniture but I feel them moving at times and the smell is terrible. I have called an exterminator and was told to throw all the rat poison outside. The poison draws them to the poison. I have never even seen where they have eaten on it anyway. I think there should be platform beds that the bottom is made of steel. I am also thinking the next mattress should be a high density firm foam mattress. I have all the places I think they can get in stopped up. The exterminator said they set traps outside at a cost of $27.50 each. They are still in the house or they would not get in my furniture. I think doors should be made to close tightly with steel and magnets. i have been terrorized by these rodents for four months. My family and friends think it’s my imagination or spiritual evil forces at work because I am not praying enough or reading my bible enough….REALLY? I guess I am crazy but smelling rodent excrement is not in my mind and moving under my feet legs is real. I am crazy because they have made me that way. I need a cement house a steel flat frame and magnetic sealing doors. Thing is I am 68 years old and should not be having to live like this. I have no answers but maybe a hammock would be better than this.
My brother is pretty tall & swears that he gets the best night’s sleep ever in a hammock. He has a large hammock on a metal hammock stand in his bedroom where his bed used to be. I’m considering a hammock also because of rodents or whatever it is moving in my bed at night. I don’t know how a hammock would possibly work for 2 people sleeping together unless I can find a wide 1 that’s made to stay open on its own š¤·āāļø
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again.
I understand people even told me that they are spirits and that I am crazy and start laughing and that pisses me off
Sorry to tell you La Verne be prepared for your new mattress to suffer the same fate. I donāt care what you spend. Unfortunately Iāve been there and done that even tried an air mattress.
I am having a similar problem and need to get rid of my mattresses. In the Spring something moving in my mattress every morning. I can’t sleep in that bed.
How did it get in there?! About a year ago we found a dead rat in the bottom drawer of our china hutch. We had a house FULL of company when it happened. Oh, the joys of country living!!
I have been tormented with the feeling of something in assumed were mice coming out at night in my bedroom, and taking up residence in my mattress and pillow as well as my chest of drawers that hold all my clothing. At night I heard the squeaking periodically. The scratches on the wall, window blinds shifting from lfmeft to right while the window was closed, the feeling like something is hanging on the some clothes I have on. Never been able to find droppings so everyone assumes I am crazy. Hut this is been on going for some time now exacerbated by recent rains. I eve. Tried taking xanax to calm me down enought to sleep but that didnt work.
I asked a dr. How likely it is for a hallucination include auditory, olfactory, tactile all at once and he told me that would be more than 3x of rare, so IMO there is really only one conclusion to come to.
WHAT CA N I DO???
More than anything I just want some insight from others. Nobody believes me but I know in my heart this is real.
I’ve had a similar experience. When I started to fall asleep, it felt like something was moving in my bed. It usually started by my feet but eventually moved all over the bed. This went on for 2 months. I inspected my mattress & box springs several times for holes but didn’t find any. I set out mouse traps, bait & electronic devices but never caught anything. I did not find droppings or any other signs of mice in my entire house, but the movement persisted. I even felt it in my guest room mattress. I had an exterminator inspect my house & attic & he found no signs of mice. He told me to set out crackers in the areas I thought where there may be mice to see if they would eat the crackers. Nothing!
The movement did not stop until after the exterminator assured me he found nothing & after reading about others having the same experience.
Thankfully, I have only felt the movement a couple of times now. I can’t explain why this happened but I truly believed it stopped when I found out other people felt the same thing. I realized I was not crazy.
Little Tunnels and a laughing squeak when the light is shined their way, immune to traps sound emitters and invisible practically? I take 3 mg Clonazepam a night and if lucky I sleep when the sun comes up kind of.
Roof Rats and Hypothyroidism….You arent alone.
I hear a growl now and then in bed at night in the dark like it’s beside me, I sleep with now flash light and turn it on to see, I have one lamp in room so I need a light for other side, I ended up broken out with body mights, and I don’t have any close relationship and I had rat trouble but in other room I thought, I taken meds for mites 3 times and big tube of cream cleared up and now bites on body 2to3 places it’s from rats, It started not many months ago after buying a new mattress and it is a pillow top with springs. I could have rats living in it but no open area’s in move sometimes and I hear a growl, it scares me. I’m 65 never been through this ever untill purchasing this queen size pillow top mattress with springs, I forgot what it’s like to have a good night sleep I feel like I’m possessed, after searching and I came across this article on your experiences I don’t feel like I’m this crazy as I thought. I have done research roof rats carry scabies and if they get under your mattress or up in your attic and I have attic vents they can drop scabies and if I got a rat living in my mattress and I think I do and it’s new was new, I don’t know how I’m going to buy another one this one here tells me too much money I’ve had it up on its side cleaning under the bed looking and checking for areas where rats might have cute hoes I can’t find nothing nothing now I’m questioning what is going on and your article that’s pretty much told me this has been terrible it’s been a nightmare I’ve not had a good night sleep since I bought this mattress, regretting getting rid of the old one it didn’t have springs it might have been broken in areas but I slept very well considering what I’m sleeping now. I don’t know what I’m going to do it’s just taking my whole body down and I’ve not been happy and I’ve not slept good I’ve been miserable and sick literally sick. So if you’re sleeping on a pillow top with springs and you live in an area that’s infested with rats around you around your house because of other houses so close beware first time in my life I’ve ever been through so much hell trying to get one good night sleep, been taking sleeping pills nerve pills that’s not helping so I had to throw them out. But all you people have helped me realize I’m not as crazy as I began to believe,. I just want to thank you all for using my mind now I’m going to drag this mattress out and I’m going to cut it up
Ryan,i agree with you. My mattress moves. I pulled it off the bed to clean everything but can find no holes. Everything is intact. Am I paranoid? I donāt think so. Whatever it is doesnāt,ake an appearance. It was so bad last week, i woke up seeing a huge snake in my room. I went to my sofa but couldnāt sleep. I never found evidence!
I am glad to see so many responses to this. I have had this problem I’m going for at least a year and 3 mattresses a go. I had a pillow top that I moved into my current apartment. After sometime I began to feel movement and also to see movement and my mattress. I began stabbing at work knives in places I thought there might the movement. Each time the knife came out clear which left me dumbfounded. Because I know there was something moving in my mattress. I bought a new one and for some reason the same problem occurred. So at this point I began to wonder was there an infestation in the or where are the critters inside the mattress when it was delivered. Frustrated I bought another mattress this time it was a mattress with box spring included. That brings me to the present time. I am experiencing extreme movement in this mattress. I have seen where there is evidence I’m breakthrough and there is a space between the are Jane and the mattress filler
Omg
All this time I thought I was crazy, when I got the courage to mention this to my sister she looked at me like I had lost my mind
I might be crazy because I also feel this in my couch
Iāve learned to live with it but I have many sleepless nights
I have no holes or anything in my mattress or my couch so how did they get in there??
Well Iām just glad to know I havenāt lost my mind š„³
Thank yaāll
If anyone finds out itās aliens please let me know
Hi Kathy, I read your message & had to chuckle, I am on my living room floor because I have been stabbingy mattress with a pointed 18″ steel poker tool I made. I’ve been stabbing for a while and the poker comes out clean.
I usually don’t sleep on my bed anymore due to the creepy feelings it gives.
I have a desk in my room that I sometimes spend a couple hours at. No radio, tv nothing, very quiet. Every so often about 15 to 20 mins or so.
I hear my bed make a little sound like a small critter is in it. My couch is the same way & it’s so creepy to think about it.
I think my next step is to take the bed & couch to the dump.
I hope you have resolved your problem with the little critters.
Your not alone im having the exact same problem. Im at a loss for sleep all the time. It’s has me so worn down and im a emotional wreck. If you find out anything please let me in on it . I’ll do the same . Thanks and I’m sorry your freaking with the same thing and your not crazy. Take care
OMG!! Your not alone! How come all these posts it’s only ever ONE person who feels it. I feel the movement all the time in my mattress..I live in Oakland, Ca. I can’t find any mouse/rat droppings either. And I’ve left bacon and peanuts out under my bed and it’s still there….can they be stuck in the mattress? Maybe they breed and the new babies can’t find the way out and the mommy dies but I don’t smell nothing funky and nothing dead! I mean when I’m outa the house for a bit I’ll come in room and smell something..but not horrifyingly gross..usually like dirty laundry and hubby’s trash or all his nasty work clothes!! Eeww. Anyways…any updates on how to make others believe us or how to get rid of them. I NEED a full night’s sleep!!! I believe you Ryan!
You bet it’s real and so is the rodent excrement that nothing will take out of your clothes. Five gallons of OdorBan has not washed out after five washing and even soaking 24 hours in the stuff. Not vinegar, baking soda, lemon Pine-sol. I gave up and threw over half my clothes away.
Glad to know Iām not insane ā¦. Itās so weird Iāll be sitting there on my bed and just feel like something is on the bed with me or moving all around me it DRIVES ME CRAZY Thereās no telling whatās going on anymore
Your not crazy. Im sitting up against the wall side of my bed now at 4:39am can’t sleep cause there are rats that are huge in my mattress and whats worse, they are the black roof rats and they have babies so they are subject to attack if feel threatened. When my husband leaves the room i also leave… Ive been around pet mice and rats and would love them as pets… But i feel like these wild black rats are making me lose my mind. The babies climb up the wall and literally sit on the bed next to me til i move or realize they are there. My dog sleeps with us and even he is jumpy due to these rodents.
Im experiencing exactly the same and my boyfriend says im crazy and hes had it cause he dont feel it
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again.
I understand people even told me that they are spirits and that I am crazy and start laughing and that pisses me off.
I believe you
I don’t know where to start. Congratulate you on your Intellibed… or tell you I’m grossed out by your rodents ????
I’m so glad you got an Intellibed!! Do you love it x1000?? We sure do!
I commend you for getting back on that bed. I must admit I probably would have taken one of the kids.
Consumer fear IS real!! I was paranoid about toxins and mold growing on our mattress and so we threw it away 3 months ago when I couldn’t stand the thought of our newborn sleeping on it with us! So we’ve been sleeping on two thick sleeping bags stacked ever since. We need a new one but intellibed is expensive for us right now as we’re paying off student loans! Someday š Soon I hope!
I REALLY want to know how you got the sucker out now! I think I would have just chucked the whole mattress out the front door and slept on the couch for the night. Bravo to you and your husband for eliciting him and having the guts to lay back down on it.
Wow fun times! I have my own rat-in-the-bedroom story from when I was a teenager. My brother ended up “evicting” it with his blow dart gun.
Come on
Teach
The timing of this post couldn’t be better! In fact, we might have purchased the SAME pillow-top type mattress- about 17+ years ago! It’s time to replace that sucker. These old middle-aged bones need something softer!!! A couple of questions for you: 1 ) How is your new mattress working out for you? 2) Which model did you choose of the three that this company makes? 3) How long will your HOMESTEAD promo code be good? Thanks!
This past winter when the mice moved in for warmer weather- in the house- one night I heard a similar sound- as you described- behind my head. I got up, looked fluffed and shook everything, then went back to sleep. Fast forward a few days and I lay down to go to sleep and smell the awful, highly distinct smell of death. I’m searching everywhere, but I can only smell it when I lay down….and then I find it: a dead mouse in my pillowcase!!! Needless to say that pillow and pillowcase went straight into the trash and I spent the next day fumigating my mattress. I completely understand your story!
There is one in my mattress in my college dorm and no-one believes me, because the thing only moves at night. Please tell me how you got it out. I have tried everything.
Glad to read that a mattress can have rats in them. I feel like mines has something in it. Exterminator is coming in 2 days. I can’t look.
I definitely have somthing.. started in my mattress then moved that outside far away .. blew up air mattress one was in there cant find him still kicking tho but bought a huge 8ft beanbag and now they are in it and idk how there is no hole to get in .. fml
So was there a jole in the nattress. I have movement in my bed like something noring away inside the mattress. Someone please tell me what at to do
I have that same problem now please can somebody help me by telling me how to get it out of my mattress please help
Did anyone answer your question on how to get rid of them. Please pass the tips.
Need to know how to get rid of rats…exterminator did not get rid of them…
What do I do?? It feels like my pillows, bed, and pretty much everything at this point is vibrating and moving around
Thank you for your story. I first noticed some weird motion in the mattress an thought, it’s my cat walking on the bed. I raise up an yep, No Cat nowhere. Dismissed it. It keeps happening. Im not crazy but thought maybe i am. Now the thumping is stronger an in different spots. Im gonna get a new mattress an get this one gone before i wake up with some giant critter in my face. I know something is in this thing. Sadly my mattress is only hum 7 years old. Thank you for your story an letting me know this can really happen. šš©
I definitely have somthing.. started in my mattress then moved that outside far away .. blew up air mattress one was in there cant find him still kicking tho but bought a huge 8ft beanbag and now they are in it and idk how there is no hole to get in .. fml
Omg
All this time I thought I was crazy, when I got the courage to mention this to my sister she looked at me like I had lost my mind
I might be crazy because I also feel this in my couch
Iāve learned to live with it but I have many sleepless nights
I have no holes or anything in my mattress or my couch so how did they get in there??
Well Iām just glad to know I havenāt lost my mind š„³
Thank yaāll
If anyone finds out itās aliens please let me know
By the way does anyone feel little bites or like something is stinging you? I do! Sometimes I feel as if my legs are going to sleep until I get up and walk around? All of this makes me crazy! Help!!!!
Roof rats another regular rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies roof rats carries scabies and they get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because I can’t get out I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds of it I’ve been a clear up every time I go to bed I wake up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up my name is Karen I left the last post, I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one left in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lie scabies spray poison under my mattress and box springs I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is so I don’t know other than to tell you to get treated for it my husband and I had a fight over it I thought he was bringing something in it has really caused some serious problems for a while. Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can live in your mattress because they’re not on the floor and I don’t know how they get there unless they’re made in the mattress the mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together rats get in there in bed I think they must feed off each other. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling I forgot what a good night sleep is
Tina YES! I feel little bites or stings and actually see my mattress moving like a snake is slivering through my mattress! I also hear an occasional growl which snakes also make to get their point across! My family thinks Iāve lost my mind! Itās a Stearns and Foster. Iām considering calling the company. If anyone has a suggestion for how to get it out please let me know!
I see this post is old but in case someone is reading this after March 2020, I want to caution you before you purchase your new mattress. Make sure you have gotten rid of the mice. My issue started the end of December with roof rats in my detached garage, who moved into my townhome once the exterminator got rid of them in the garage. I am in the middle unit yet neither of my neighbors are having issues. So, the roof rats got in and so did the mice. I noticed my bed moving but what freaked me out was when I realized they were burrowing under me to get warm. So I threw out that mattress, waited a month, still having roof rats decided to finally get a new mattress.Needless to say, the mice beat me there. No one believed me when I showed them the puncture marks, they said rats chew. Finally the second exterminator saw the mice droppings under my bed. Needless to say, I still have mice, roof rats as well as rats burrowing under my home. I have been here 5 years with no issues until now. So please, make sure they are gone before you purchase a new mattress. The unfortunate part is I havenāt even made a payment and after two weeks they have burrowed through the pillow top mattress and are sleeping right under me. Needless to say, I tossed it out this morning as I couldnāt do another night.
Best regards.
Wow, I was just wondering if it was possible to have multiple rodents, as I put flour on my bedroom floor a couple weeks ago in hopes of identifying what is in my bedroom. It appeared that I had every kind of rodent (well 3) and something in my mattress does the same thing, seeking heat. I use a heat pad regularly and right underneath the heat, is movement! I’m terrified.
I know.my husband says “im trippen!”! But im not! Yes vibrating, moving, squeaking, scary. , andyes! How do they get in??when u cant see a hole? And i try to take a video but can never catch them on film!!!ive tried to poke or stab them with a sharp metal rod and boy that ticks em off!! But nothing to prove they are there! They suretry to cuddle through the blankets material too! How to make them go?!!
Julie thank you! They do vibrate donāt they? No one else feels them but Iāve had 3 beds and five yes five years later I still have rats in my mattress and I havenāt slept in five years either. Day or night night and day, and they tell all their rat buddies and sometimes itās a party in my bed and Iām not having any fun
Hi Julie, I have tried to catch them on video, no luck.
I just tried again tonight to stab them with a pointed rod of 18″ long. Nothing seems like I work. My next step is taking the bed to the dump.
Your story sounds like mine. I just noticed my post isn’t here. I posted almost one week ago. Hmmm Here’s a tip that might help you with something. Rodents can’t chew through aluminum foil. I’ve tried it in holes under the bathroom sink and the aluminum foil has’nt been moved. I’m thinking when I get a new mattress to cover it with aluminum foil completely. Beats buying another one. Desparate? Yes!
I feel as if something is living within my mattress as well. The whole thing vibrates at night. I tried to lift the top portion of my mattress and I couldn’t find anything. There are no holes in the mattress whatsoever so is it possible that when this thing was bought that a rodent was already in it? This mattress is probably about 10 years old.
Ren yes rats can come already in your mattress. I’ve purchased 4 mattresses from Amazon and they all had mice/rats in them. I also bought two futons that has memory foam in them and found rodents in them also. I got my money back on everything! Idk what’s going on?! You’re not alone!
I have already gotten rid of a mattress that had mice or a rat making a home in it i had them open it up . Then my husband went down and bought me a new bed. The first night it was a good sleep but around the 3rd night something kept pushing on me i thought it was just me paranoid but then i heard noises . It usually start moving about around 5 pm and is always chewing i can feel the movement but my husband keeps telling me there is no way. And after reading all these i am completely freaked out i was going to call a shrink to try and fix my phobia ive stuck clove all over as a deterrant but i think i just pissed them off.. i have been tempted to just shoot a couple buck shots into the mattress ( with no one in the bed of course lol and only tempted not going to) but im so damn positive that im right that I’m not crazy but im sure disturbed by my unwanted guests.
WTH.
I KNEW it!! How do I even tell the company? I paid for a 10year warranty that expires in two years. They denied me a Allergen mattress cover but how do I even broach this? Itās a Macys pillowtop just under a grand. I avoided googling my thought but when I saw your title you wonāt believe what I found in my mattress I frozed… I knew what you were going to say. I didnāt even read how you figured it out. Would hate for it to ācome throughā as āViolet Chakiā would say.
Please help! This absurd. I canāt even believe Iām writing this
I keep feeling something in my mattresses! I spray peppermint & vinigar and it calms down but as I’m dozing back off it starts up again..what is it!! These are brand new! No holes! But I feel them moving around!! Sick of no sleep!HELP! I have to get sleep in daytime and sit up feeling them all night! I can’t afford another mattress.
Hi everyone I’m happy to see that I’m not crazy that it’s happening to other people who h is why I’m unhappy to see that it’s really happening…fml… so no one believes me… they think I’m imaginating it all… But I can see in and hear them.. I don’t know what to do. HELP
Ren yes rats can come already in your mattress. I’ve purchased 4 mattresses from Amazon and they all had mice/rats in them. I also bought two futons that has memory foam in them and found rodents in them also. I got my money back on everything! Idk what’s going on?! You’re not alone!
but how are they in there and the mattress is brand new and has no holes in it
I’m really loosing my mind. I have been feeling these same sort of movements and my roommate laughs at me and says, I need to get some sleep. I can’t because I really believe there is something. My great niece spent the weekend and basically confirmed it by saying my little pet friends were real cause she saw the eyes and didn’t want to sleep in her little tent pallet she makes everytime she visits & crawled up in the bed with me. When it moves, it makes me think my cat is jumping up on the bed, nope, not him cause he’s outside. Help!
Roof rats another regular rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies roof rats carries scabies and they get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because I can’t get out I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds of it I’ve been a clear up every time I go to bed I wake up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up my name is Karen I left the last post, I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one left in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lie scabies spray poison under my mattress and box springs I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is so I don’t know other than to tell you to get treated for it my husband and I had a fight over it I thought he was bringing something in it has really caused some serious problems for a while. Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can live in your mattress because they’re not on the floor and I don’t know how they get there unless they’re made in the mattress the mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together rats get in there in bed I think they must feed off each other. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling I forgot what a good night sleep is, I sleep better in the daytime I think they’re running the floors and other rooms in the daytime but I can’t figure out myself where they getting in and out of not unless they’re made in that mattress but that’s the best sleep I get is the daytime so it ruins my sleep at night and I’ve been up now awake since 1:30 and here I’m 65 years old this is crazy too I hear a growl sometimes it’s like I must have moved the wrong way and I heard it but it growls like something big and it’s also left me with my bites
Tina YES! I feel little bites or stings and actually see my mattress moving like a snake is slivering through my mattress! I also hear an occasional growl which snakes also make to get their point across! My family thinks Iāve lost my mind! Itās a Stearns and Foster. Iām considering calling the company. If anyone has a suggestion for how to get it out please let me know!
Dont know how it got in there cause theres no holes in the mattress
Does anyone have a smell. my matress is a month old and it has a toxic smell not real bad but every morning i wake up with this smell on my body.
Yes! Have a temper Pedic, delivered in August and still stinks. Itās not me, I threw out my old mattress and ripped apart the box spring trying g to figure out what it is. Iād sleep on the couch and felt the same! Help. Literally everyone is telling me Iām crazy. Iāve had it.
I bought a new mattress last November and about a week ago I can feel movement by my head and feet and feel something push up against me. My husband says he never feels anything and its so bad I moved to our new couch( bought same place as bed) and now the movement started there!!! I feel like I’m losing my mind and haven’t slept in a week!!! Help what can I do to make it dtop!!!!
Been feeling movement and vibration in my mattress mostly at night, which is when they say rodents are most active. At first I thought I was really hungover and had alcohol withdrawal. Even though I only drink every so often, but that particular hangover was brutal. Then I kept feeling it over the next couple weeks, dead sober. Canāt get a cat as Iām allergic & feel like my allergies have been set off by whatās living in the mattress. I can feel them gnawing and rolling around. I put my ear to it but I canāt determine if Iām imagining or there are really scratching sounds. No droppings but one hole that Iām too scared to probe. Everyone thinks Iām crazy even though we have a known rodent problem. Caught 3 in the kitchen. I was fed up and slept on the couch like a baby and had no issues there. Iāve bought a new mattress and am putting more traps in. Hopefully thatāll help.
In 2014 we decided to do some remodeling in our home. One of the new things was a memory-foam mattress. From that time on I have felt “something” moving around in the mattress. It is now 2020 and to this day my husband doesn’t believe me about something being in the mattress. He even went so far as to tell my doctor was having hallucinations. This was the last straw. I talked him into getting rid of that mattress. We purchased another one with springs and only a 2 inch layer of foam on the top. He washed, dried and put the mattress cover we had used on the old mattress on the new one ignoring my plea not to use that one. Oh well. Three nights into the new mattress and there it was…ā¦movement and a trembling in the mattress top. My husband still says I’m hallucinating. I am not. I have taken psychotic tests, brain scans, etc. ordered by my doctor and they all point to my being as normal as he is. So, what’s in my new mattress? I have seen a couple mice and a rat or two over the years inside my house and I have heard them chewing inside the bedroom wall. But because my husband has not seen any rodents he is yet to be convinced that there is something in the mattress and he could sleep through a tornado. Now my doctor thinks I’m hallucinating and without any real proof of it. I know there is something there and I am now so frustrated I could scream. What is it and what can I do about it?
My landlord laughed at me, called me a druggie and had me committed and even the Docs told me I can go home when the right meds work. Get this!! A lady there had the exact issue and her husband took her kids, filed emergency custody and she was there when I left unreal! I thought something evil was casted upon me but so glad to research instead of meds or institutionalized! Thank all of you for sharing and I won’t cry myself to sleep now! Nextdoor psychotic abusers finally got evicted but packed up my trailer storage compartments with all of their garbage for 7 months, rotted meats and to they used to wipe their rears. I had no idea till the day after they were gone. These toxic beings devistated my life and tortured me or over 4 yrs so I’m kinda used to fear and destruction. All cuz of jealousy they said. They’re in the worst legal trouble and bragged what they stole from meš Imbisoles!!
The same thing here. I gave an entire bedroom set away and it is still in my sofa. I can’t afford to replace them. My guess is this is two fold snakes and bugs. The neighbor next to me has made me a laughing stock but I notice she keeps changing beds and sleeper chairs. It is a nightmare. Strong scented soap helps but has not stopped the problem. Since this is so widespread it cannot all be by accident. My next question is where have these beds and sofas been manufactured and shipped from ??? ??? ??
My heart truly goes out to all of you because I have the same movements in my pillowtop mattress. It was a traumatic experience when finally found the mouse dead in the sticky trap. I went and sealed up holes outside and inside to not have the bad experience again. Now that I’m aware of rats and mice suddenly I noticed my bed starts to move when I lay down on it. Mice gravitate to warmth. You can actually feel them under your body. It feels like a massager in your bed. I thought I lost my mind after the bad experience with the dead mouse in sticky. I followed someone’s instructions, they said black pepper is so disgusting to rats they’ll leave. Black pepper hits their nasals badly. I’ve been cutting holes in the top of my mattress making sure the pepper goes down deep so the rats can smell it and leave. The first time I did that I thought I was hallucinating because my mattress started moving and the hole I cut to put pepper inside started growing up out of the hole. They were all gathering around to eat the pepper. I got my video ready so I can show that I’m not crazy. I did it again with my phone sitting up there ready to make a video and nothing happened. I don’t know if they saw the phone there and were too scared to come out and eat pepper. Or maybe they’re so smart they know they hate pepper and this is another trap. I got 2 overstuffed pillows put them under my body so they can’t feel my warmth and start moving around when I’m sleeping. It’s expensive and difficult to buy a new mattress and I do have to sleep. What can I say? I will continue this process until they’re gone. BTW I sew the holes back together after things settle down. For those of you out there who asked for something to do about the problem, I have one more solution I read about and plan to do it someday soon. Ammonia kills rodents instantly. I’m willing to dump some in spots on the mattress and see what the outcome is. I hope this will help some of you and thanks to the person for allowing us to communicate this because it is a real problem and we need help.
I have something big that feels like it slither threw my bed matree it feels like something that pokes its head up and I feel this slithering movement .I think it’s a big ass snake needless to say I won’t sleep in my room anymore.
. I googled to find out what i had I have a Bambo Mattress and I kno something is in it but no one belives me. I feel the vibration and the movement and these uninvited things have been in my house for at least 6 months. Every piece of furniture I have 2 sofas 1 c the room was vibratingalif. king and a queen bed and my recliner there is one in.I have had 3 exterminators come out nd the are looking for mouse or rat droppings and because they didn’t find that they didn’t know and left me . The droppings that are being left is blood spots all over my carpet.It got so mad Monday night they doub le teamed me one at the head of the bed and one at the foot of the bed vibrating I got sick of it and went to the living room to sleep sitting straight up there is one there too.I.have not had a good night sleep in what seems like for ever and I have Checked into the Holiday Inn last night for a good night sleep when i got back after going home and carefully packing to make sure they were not following me.big as day as i unpacked.the room was vibrating I called the front desk thinking maybe I am above a generator room or something the lady came up and could NOT feel anything but where ever I stood I could feel it so whats up with that ?I feel like I am a target or something and it does like to get all up under me I have a marble inlay billyclub and every time ti moves I swing then I get scared that its gonna retaliate then I’M SCARED!!!! please help.
Interesting tail….(sp intentional).
I have had pet rats for 17 years and none of them have ever burrowed into my mattress. I have had domesticated and non domesticated rats and nothing…
But i definitely believe you all. A few things that you can do to deter the rats are:
Soak cotton balls or moth balls in peppermint extract or oil. Add minty toothpaste. They dont really like those scents.
Orange peels also work wonders.
Dont use sticky pads. You know how long it takes for one to die when they get caught in one? google it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+it+take+for+a+rat+to+die+on+a+glue+trap&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA925CA927&oq=how+long+does+it+take+for+a+rat+to+die+on+a+glue+trap&aqs=chrome..69i57.15327j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Or better yet watch a you tube video with the sound turned up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9COP5xXUzQ
i hope that you all sleep well!
For months I have been feeling something moving under me. My daughter sits on my bed and feels nothing. My son and grandsons picked up the mattress and there were no chew marks anywhere. But I still feel something every night. I can get a new mattress but who’s to say they won’t get in that too. Everyone thinks it’s my rls, but I know the difference and it’s driving me crazy and my kids think that I am. I’ve got traps and those plug ins but it hasn’t helped. I dont know what to do HELP
I purchased my mattress from Amazon.I feel it moving under me and I want to run. Far far away .
I have been going CRAZY trying to figure out what it is.
I am praying itās not rats OMG I am so shocked.
Thank you . I have been feeling so alone.
Your not crazy and you don’t wanna know what’s in your mattress, there is no getting them out and when I tried to convince my landlord/ parents I kid you not I got committed for “imaginary rodents”
Look bro they burrow in there and will never leave a mark I have no idea how rodents can get so big and go under noticed man the biggest one was the size of a cat and I still have tremendous trouble getting to sleep
Loose the dang thing , you can’t unknown what is in there
I bought a new pillow top last November for a grand and things were great until about a week ago I feel movement around my head and feet and sometimes is pushing up against me!!! Needless to say I’m absolutely terrified every night and feel like I’m losing my mind!!! My husband lays there every night feeling nothing!! There is no holes in it and we never have had a mouse or rat in our townhouse!!! How can I find out whats in there and make it stop!! Please any suggestions so I can sleep again!!!!
Im experiencing exactly the same and my boyfriend says im crazy and hes had it cause he dont feel it
403 am š¤still trying to get this mou,an I here them crawling inside the walls can anyone a ese to stay from. Under my sofa. I’ve never ever had such evil thoughts like I do now I just want to smash this dam thing an get some sleep Crow bar in one hand banging down inside the sofa, an ppeppermint oil in the other,smh why me, keep no trash in Apt no food sitting out why theze things keep running threw my apt.However I’m hearing these things inside the walls, what’s going on? SMH
Me too
Roof rats another regular rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies roof rats carries scabies and they get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because I can’t get out I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds of it I’ve been a clear up every time I go to bed I wake up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up my name is Karen I left the last post, I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one left in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lie scabies spray poison under my mattress and box springs I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is so I don’t know other than to tell you to get treated for it my husband and I had a fight over it I thought he was bringing something in it has really caused some serious problems for a while. Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can live in your mattress because they’re not on the floor and I don’t know how they get there unless they’re made in the mattress the mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together rats get in there in bed I think they must feed off each other. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling I forgot what a good night sleep is, I sleep better in the daytime I think they’re running the floors and other rooms in the daytime but I can’t figure out myself where they getting in and out of not unless they’re made in that mattress but that’s the best sleep I get is the daytime so it ruins my sleep at night and I’ve been up now awake since 1:30 and here I’m 65 years old this is crazy too I hear a growl sometimes it’s like I must have moved the wrong way and I heard it but it growls like something big and it’s also left me with mite bites, I’ve had to take three rounds of pills a whole big tuba cream and I still get bit and the only thing I can find that causes these bites is roof rats. These spots are called scabies and they’re terrible they itch and they are spread if you.scratch. I’m with y’all I feel your feelings and I hope you don’t go to feeling what I felt other than not getting no sleep it causes your skin to itch all over and break out and I don’t have skin to skin contact, I’m 65 like I said and that urge has been gone so rats carry mites roof rats carries scoby mites and that’s the only thing that’s not going to live on the floor good luck.
I have heard of snake’s in ppl. Mattress, I sure hope it’s not. bad to have rat’s, I pray we all can get rid of all that’s living in our mattress. I want a good night sleep through out the night. Please take your mattress out side and set it on wooden stands, and poor snake be gone or grandles on it for a day, it should burn the snake and snake should leave if it can get out. I would kill it, to use to mattress now and houses.
Roof rats another and other rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies, roof rats carries scabies.rats get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because they can’t get out. I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds,I’ll a clear up every time I’ll go to bed I get up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact, it’s not bed bugs it’s not bed bugs, made sure .I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up. I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one lamp on night table in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed, I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lice and scabies spray, poison under my mattress and box springs. I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is.Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can be traped in your mattress.I don’t know how they get there unless they’re traped when it’s made, mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together sometime the mattress sets till the next day,rats get in there in bed while being put together. I think they must feed off each other, might be answers to smell. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling, I forgot what a good night sleep is, I sleep better in the daytime. I think they’re running the floors in day and other rooms in the daytime but I can’t figure out myself where they getting in and out of not unless they’re made in that mattress but that’s the best sleep I get is the daytime so it ruins my sleep at night and I’ve been up now awake since 1:30 and it’s now 5 A.M. here I’m 65 years old this is has been hard on me.I hear a growl sometimes it’s like I must have. God bless y’all, hope y’all get the rat’s out or snakes.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Maybe a hammock. I got rid of them for a couple months and now my beds moving again.. I very been told I’m just crazy but I know its moving underneath me. Why cant anyone else feel them? It’s like they’re only attracted to me.
I woke up one night and seen a snake go over my girlfriend’s hand right on top of our pillows. It was huge and mouth wide open. She thinks I’m crazy but I seen it and theres something in my mattress again and I’m scared to death of snakes. I hope I dont have another heart attack since I’ve had 2 already. Are they attracted to a certain blood type or certain smell of illness . Everyone thinks I’m crazy and I dont see how they cant feel them if they move under me every time I move
everybody listen, these are not rats, not mice, they are pretty much invisible and they are attracted to our body heat. They may be aliens of some sort, or, some kind of energy manifesting the way they do. There is one in my bed right now, and my bed is inflatable. I already took my memory foam, and two other standard beds to the dump along with two couch sets. so I got an inflatable thinking theres no way they could get in without making it go flat. Well they prov ed me wrong. I am a 55 yo normal guy,and this has turned my life upside down, unbelievable. I dont know what the hell they are. Sometimes it doesnt bother me too much and I can sleep but sometimes I get freaked out. If i’m lying on my side, it will slowly come up and snuggle against my back. they do create their own body heat, I can feel where its been lying when I come to my bed at night. Yowza! I’m in gilroy, ca.
they are not rats. They are invisible, and are attracted to your body heat. They are possibly alien life forms, or, some poltergeist thing. you cant get rid of them, there’s one in my bed right now, my bed is inflatable. I took my memory foam and two other beds to the dump, along with two couches. I dont think they are harmful, but I haven’t slept in two fucking years
they are not rats. I dont think they are harmful, but I haven’t slept in two fucking years
I think you are right. I have a sleep number bed – it is inflatable- nothing for anything to chew threw without the bed going flat. No box spring either. I feel strange movements under my hips ( side sleeper), almost as if someone is touching my hip/butt cheek area. It is a king bed, my husband has been acting like i am imagining things because he doesn’t feel it… until i woke up this morning with a bruise on my hip. I am a smaller person, i only weigh about 108 lbs so it is not that the mattress is wrong, i have tried all settings, from squishy to firm but this is now happening every night. I really need a good nights sleep, i do not know what to do. There is no way for anything to be in my bed, like i said – its a sleep number bed, not a regular mattress. I do not know what to do, its not physical, i have no hip issues normally. Any help would be appreciated, i am exhausted.
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again.
I understand people even told me that they are spirits and that I am crazy and start laughing and that pisses me off.
I believe you