I think i may have bed bugs?

You sound like me. I thought I had them too and tore the bed/room apart cleaning everything in site. I too, am a neat//clean freak and also have a dog. (fleas? but no bites around my ankles) So I went to sleep in another room and still got "bites". I went to a dermatologist and he said I have contact dermatitis. I don't go near weeds if I can avoid it but he said I may have gotten exposed to poison ivy just by contact from my husband's clothes. So to make a long story short the rash expanded, itches, look like bites and then welts, then red discolored areas. I am using 20X hydrocortisone cream and have a prescription for prednisone if that doesn't work. Good luck. There are a lot of rashes going around. Oh yeah, bed bug bites are red circle with a red pinpoint in the middle.)