rbella, you are not alone. As a matter of fact, this whole thread is creeping me the hell out, LOL. I am terrified of roaches. I just moved into my house in June and I was slowing doing it because I was waiting on Brinks, cable, internet and appliances....So, everyday I would bring what I could and set up...Well, there was one damn roach that was in the kitchen cabinet every day. And it had the nerve to slowly crawl away like, "This bitch needs to stop opening and closing my damn door!"
I had gone to Lowe's and gotten the Orthro bug spray that my inspector advised and began to spray. Well, 2 roaches crawled out....one from I don't know where and another from behind the stove. The (fearful) woman in me asked, "What have I gotten myself into, buying this house? I can't live here with these roaches!" while the homeowner part of me was saying, "You better man your ass up and let them know whose house this is!".
In the end, I'm still scared of those bastards. On top of that, when I first saw this thread, I was trying to smoke out a spider (a big one, too) with Bengal spray.