Matthew Gilchrest wrote:Thanks for all of your suggestions!
I am going to check out the memoryfoam.com. I was reading that they can set up a bed with two different sides in the King. That would be great since my wife and I are totally different sleepers.
Yeah, Mark's pretty good about stuff like that. Let us know what you end up getting
I bought the Tempurpedic unit because my wife didn't want to buy from the dude in Orlando.
We had it for 5 days. My back was so bad by the end of the fifth night that I could barely walk.
We went back to the furniture joint and traded it out for $100 (to pay for another "free" delivery). They wanted me to keep it for 30 days, but when I showed them the doctor's not to stay out of work for 10 days (I stayed out for 2) and the two prescriptions (one for relaxers and one for pain killers) they nicely took it back with no further questioning.
The unit we ended up with was a top-o-the-line Sterns & Foster innerspring unit that acutally has a very thin layer of about 1 inch of the memory foam. The springs are very stiff for me and the "pillowtop" is soft for my wife. About two nights on this bed and my back was much better.
The foam mattress was working my back all night. For whatever reason, my back was trying to keep my spine aligned in spite of whatever the mattress was doing.
Trying it out in the store was very different from living with it. I will not recommend people to not buy this mattress, as I feel that it is personal preference. I will say that Tempurpedic may be the way to go for the first one, only because of the trial period involved if it does not work for you and they have a dealer network to support this (and maybe even trade it out if neccessary).
Matthew Gilchrest wrote:
We had it for 5 days. My back was so bad by the end of the fifth night that I could barely walk.
The foam mattress was working my back all night. For whatever reason, my back was trying to keep my spine aligned in spite of whatever the mattress was doing.
very interesting. i'd love fo you ask mark , at memoryfoam.com, about that. very unlike any other experience ive heard.
Interesting to hear all this. What I have at home is an ancient Stearns and Foster super-firm, that I put one of those $10 egg-carton foam things on top of. It came with the mahogany claw-foot bed I bought at the used furniture store. With my 100#-dripping-wet physique, almost anything seems to work.
I try to not go too soft, even though I like soft, because I do business travel and I have yet to find a really nice and soft hotel bed. I need to be awake for business meetings, instead of bleary-eyed from lack of sleep on an unfamiliarly hard bed.
For camping I have a many-years-old-but-still-functional air mattress that I learned to only 3/4 fill...so it is really soft, and I just love it. I'm unhappy when I get back home to go back to the hard bed, but I don't seem to suffer much either.
Condolences to you people who have to buy expensive beds to keep your backs functional.
Jeez, I spent the last couple years of college sleeping on an eggcrate foam thing & sleeping bag on the floor.
Right now, I've got an Ikea single-layer bed thing. I've never seen one of these before -- it's like a box spring with a soft section on top. On top of that, I've got, yes, an eggcrate foam thing that happened to be here when I moved in. For whatever reason, the setup is really nice.
I had a really great sleep in one hotel on a rather firm bed. I think it was a Sealey Posturepedic, although it's been quite a few years since then.
One other time, I was in a friend's roommate's bed (the roommate was out of town) that was a heavy mattress pad about ten inches thick on a flat frame. And, instead of bedsheets, she was using a giant bed-sized pillow that I think was filled with down. That was an otherwordly experience; I might try to find something similar to put on my current bed.
