What do you sleep on?

Hi Everybody,

I haven't posted much since I joined, but I've been reading as often as I can stand to be on the computer.  My question today is this....what do you sleep on?

I'm asking because I have a traditional inner spring mattress (which is only 6 years old) and in the last few months sleeping on it has become almost impossible.  I lay down, and can literally feel every single coil.  I guess I am very sensitive at the moment.  We tried a memory foam topper on it, and it helped for the first day, but not after that.  Plus it bothered my husband to no end, and he never complains about anything.

I've been thinking about some type of pillow top to add to it, but money is extremely tight for us, so I can't just spend willy-nilly hoping it might work.  Has anyone here used a pillow top, and where did you purchase it from?

Thank you for any help you can provide.  I need some sleep!!!

My husband and I just recently got a sleep number bed.  It is great because they offer payment plans and a lifetime warranty.  My husband has bad back problems and it really helps him.  At first I didn't think it did anything for me, but when I sleep in another bed I realize how much I love our bed!  It's great because the nights that I feel like everything that touches me hurts I can lower the setting and make the bed really soft and mushy.  Other days if I don't feel like there is enough support I can make the bed more firm. 

It is a big investment though so I understand not being able to go that route if money is tight.  Before that we tried a memory foam on a spring mattress and while it was comfortable it still didn't do anything for me.  We both found that it trapped body heat and we were always sweating so that didn't help our sleep much.  I did have a down mattress topper at one point and I loved it.  The bed was sooooo comfy and plush, but still it comes down to the comfort and firmness of the mattress, the toppers can only do so much.

Good luck!

We have a pillow top also...I have tried memory foam on top of that and an 'air bed'.  I end up on the couch every night as if offers support behind my back.  Not good but it's the only way I don't wake up with my hips/leg throbbing.

Donna

I used to have a sleep number bed but after a couple of years, I found I was waking up with horrible back aches regardless of what setting it was on.

Thankfully a friend of mine was nice enough to give me her Tempurpedic mattress and I tell you it was the difference between night and day (so to speak). I absolutely LOVE it! I realize they are expensive so it may not work for you, but if possible, I highly recommend it.

Our old mattress was a pillow top on both sides so we could flip it and turn it around and flip it again. It ended up with divets, one for me and a deeper one for him. It was expensive and we got maybe 10 years out of it.

2 years ago we had some extra money and bought a very expensive king size mattress that has a 20 year warranty. It was really great the first year and a half but now IT HAS DIVETS!!! can't flip it so we turned it head area is now foot area and I am in his great big divet and am not one bit happy about it. When the weather clears up a little I am calling to have it inspected. I did that with the old mattress and got a new one and for 5K you better believe I am going to explode if they don't do something.

We got the new bed thinking I would feel better in the morning before my fibro diagnosis.

We had a sleep number bed for a few years, but if you have dual control and one of you is heavier than the other, be forewarned. I am heavier than my husband and like soft beds; he is lighter and likes harder beds. So he wound up feeling like he was on a shelf and felt like he was rolling off the shelf if he wanted to cuddle. He had to adjust his settings to where mine were when he came to "visit," and then he wasn't comfortable.

However, if you are sleeping by yourself on a sleep number bed, it's heavenly! And we got the "hospital bed" option where we could raise the head and feet AND it had the massage, too. We now use it as a guest bed or when one of us has a medical issue. I had a lipoma taken out of my thigh in December and wound up sleeping on it for several nights.

So, after we went through the sleep number bed experience, we didn't know what to do. Before we got the sleep number bed, we had slept on a waterbed for over 20 years. Hubby can sleep on anything, but I swear I'm like the princess and the pea.

We went looking for a temperpedic and wound up buying a Comforpedic Mystere bed and oh my! It's wonderful! It's also costly but I figure we will get our money out of it eventually. I still wake up with low back and hip pain every day, but I finally got rid of the nightly shoulder and neck pain. I love those memory pillows, also. I take mine everywhere I go. And I use a body pillow.

I'm kind of like Vestabula, though. I like sleeping on the couch because it provides back support.

If you can't get anything expensive, my in-laws paid about $600 for their mattress and I loved it when we stayed there last Thanksgiving. I'll try to find out what the name of it is.

Waterbed, Waterbed, Waterbed.....it's the only way to go. I bought mine in 1987 and have never
regretted it. The heat is sooooo helpful for pain. I bought it back then for arthritis and it now helps with
the dang fibro. I am now on my fourth mattress and personally I find it a godsend. I've tried to sleep
on a "normal" bed when we've gone to visit my man's grandma and can't handle it. Once when the
water mattress broke we used an air mattress for about 6 months of hell. He's heavy and every time
he got in bed I was afraid of being launched into space.

Nana Monster

about a year ago my Fibro pain hit a peak and my back pain was the biggest issue. Our matress was old and so we went to a sleep shop and tested out many option such as temperpedic, traditional spring...we literally laid on all of them. We decided on a Traditional matress with a built in memory foam topper. It was reasonably expensive but felt heavenly in the show room and I was sure it would lessen my pain.....unfortunately, this isn't the case. It's no better than our old, worn out matress but I imagine it's better for my back and definately better for my husband. I really wish I would have went with a hospital style bed that allows you to raise your legs or head.