Mattress suggestions?

Normal, I get sre from lying in bed too; I toss and turn all night trying to find a comfy spot then wake up a couple of hours later sore again. I have a double pillow top mattress and I hate it. Like you I love the blow up air mattress but my hubby won't go for just sleeping on that ( my little yorkie would probably punture it with her nails tool. Very interested in what others have to say about it.

Good topic!

I hate my bed with a passion. I dream of a new mattress. However, I can tell you a few things that don't work so well.

(1) I bought a synthetic feather bed. I thought it would be like my synthetic down pillows. Wrong. The pillows are great. The "featherbed" clumps up after you own it for some length of time. I have to shake it and fluff it often, and it is still lumpy. So I bought an egg crate foam topper ...

(2) Egg crate foam topper is almost not noticeable once you put your weight on it. I'm light weight - but that thing is not terribly useful. It only marginally helps. Mine is only like 2" thick - definitely not thick enough.

What am I interested in? I really want to go test a memory foam mattress. Just for testing, I'll probably go lay down on a tempurpedic in a showroom, however, they're too expensive for me to ever dream of owning. I did some googling and found some American companies actually make foam mattresses right here and they claim they do not off-gas toxic chemicals like the Chinese mattresses. I've heard even Tempurpedic off-gasses. This week, I discovered that both the Walmart and Sam's Club web sites have American Made foam mattresses for sale - but they do not carry them in their stores. The ones in store are made in China. The american ones are dirt cheap - like $200-$450. I figure even if they don't last many years (it says they should last 5) that might be a fair investment. BUT - I have no first hand knowledge - YET. I read a lot of reviews, and about 80% love these mattresses and say they're comfy and do NOT smell. Then about 10% say they're hard as rocks, or too soft, or that they smell forever. Is it a case of manufacturing inconsistency? Possibly. But just throwing this out there in case it is useful. I REALLY want to try one. I'm sick to death of hurting just sitting up in bed reading. *shakes fist at my mattress* Oh! And make sure that it has at least 3" of the memory foam on the top of the thicker bottom layer of open cell foam. The open cell foam can feel hard as a brick - the memory foam is what you need for comfort. But it is tricky, I have read, to find a memory foam that is supportive and soft enough at the same time.

PS: Also - before buying a mattress that is pillow-topped, go test one in a store. I find that the "buttons" or depressions where they are tufted hurt like crazy for me.

Post Edited (TheChickenPrincess) : 8/28/2010 6:07:25 PM (GMT-6)

 

 

 

My hubby and I were going to spend alot of money for a sleep number bed, and were so glad we decided to try a memory foam first.  Some people may not know this about memory foam but it's very important that you get one with enough density. My husband read all about it, and made sure he got one with a good density, ours is a 4 inch 5.3 lb density. It doesn't stay sunk down, and it is the most comfortable thing I've ever slept on. Along with fibro I have severe osteoarthritis  in my hips, which was waking me up all thru the night hurting, and I would have to keep changing positions, needless to say I was tossing and turning all night long, plus disturbing my DH.

 

I really was sceptical about this memory foam mattress topper, but reluctantly agreed to try it. I was amazed when I woke up the next morning, I hadn't woke up one time all night!  So I have to highly reccomend it to anyone who hurts during the night. I would encourage you to talk to the retailer and tell them about your pain at night, and ask them what thickness and density they would recommend for you.

 

Another added benefit, (we bought it on ebay brand new) is it only cost us $ 260.00. We are both really happy with it.

I sleep on a ing size, full-wave, heated waterbed with a 3" memory foam mattress.  It is awsome!!!  I hate sleeping anywhere else but at home!

I bought a 4 inch memery topper from brylane.com for 200 hundred dollers. I have a rather firm matteress under it and it is a dream to sleep on. I have my room rather cool so I dont have to worry about the foam topper getting too soft. Be sure not to put a topper on a already sagging matteress as you just sleep in a big sink hole. I had no problem with oders but you have to let it sit on your bed all day so it has time to fully exspand.

I've had a waveless supreme waterbed since 1987 and love it. I found Oak Express carries the same waterbed that I
have. Other than a stint with an air mattress when my mattress broke (yes, it was a mess) I haven't had anything else.
I find when in the few times I've had to use a motel because of traveling I am unable to sleep and in horrific pain. With
the waterbed it allows the heat to enter your body and make it ache less.

Nana Monster

Just throwing this out there because it is on top of my wish list. There is a bed out there called the fibropedic bed and it was made by a doctor whose wife has fibro. So it was made with our pains in mind. I dont know how much it costs but if I ever get rich. lol that is the first thing I will buy.
Gentle Hugs
Shirley

Something they will not tell you about a select comfort bed. I weigh a lot more than my husband. He also likes a firm bed and I like a soft one. So I was a lot lower in the bed than he was and when we wanted to cuddle, he said he felt like he was falling off a shelf coming over to my side of the bed. He had to match my side so we could cuddle comfortably and then he wasn't comfortable with a soft bed. Also, after a few months, my hips hurt so bad I couldn't stand sleeping on it.

Last year we bought a memory foam bed. It's a Comforpedic Mystere. And it's MARVELOUS. I slept on a waterbed from the mid 1980s to 2006 and then on the select comfort from 2006 to 2009. I can't sleep on a regular bed because they are all too firm. Well, this Comforpedic is the most comfortable bed I've ever slept on. It's very expensive but has a 20-year warranty. I figure if I'm going to sleep on it at least 8 hours every night for 20 years, it is worth the cost. I went back a week after we bought it and told them I could do a commercial for them if they wanted me to. And I walked up to a lady I didn't even know and told her about the bed when she was trying out pillowtops. You can probably get this same bed on the internet for a lot less than we paid for it. One thing you may not know: Different stores call mattresses different names. So you can walk into one store and they'll sell a particular bed and then another store won't have one named the same thing - it could be the same bed but you wouldn't know it by just looking at the name.

The salesman showed us that Comforpedics do not get hard like some of the Temperpedics. They had a wedge of both in a freezer and showed us how they changed once they were out of the freezer. It was a really good demonstration. My bed warms up really fast at night, even in the dead of winter with a fan in my room and my vent covered up. And it's not hot in the summer.

I still wake up stiff every morning, but I don't have to deal with the extreme shoulder pain I had every night sleeping on the waterbed or the extreme hip pain I had every night sleeping on the select comfort bed.