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I have a friend who swears by his Select Comfort although admittedly he never had any sleep issues such as back pain. He even bought one for his parents and says they love it too. I think they seem very over-priced but if it gave me a good night's sleep with less back pain the price would not be an issue. Just curious if anyone here has ever tried one of these? |
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jimsocal wrote: However, even with high quality HR foam, what I find is that the first night or two will often be good but after another night or two, it softens up. I do not know how to fix that problem. ..I will be throwing out the Sealy springs and trying their mattress without the Sealy mattress springs, just the foam sitting on the box springs. If the box springs give too much I'll but a hard board of some sort over the box springs. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jim, I know exactly what you're talking about. I had the same experience with a latex mattress. The first night on any configuration was fine. The second night the mattress felt too soft and my back was uncomfortable. It got worse each night until I rearranged the cores again. I thought about this phenomenon long and hard and came to the conclusion that it's not that the foam is mysteriously softening up after a couple of nights. I think what's really happening is that making some change to your mattress configuration feels good initially because you are taking the stress off your back. But because the mattress is not providing the correct kind of support by the second night or so your back muscles are being strained again and you just think the mattress feels like it's gotten softer when what you're actually feeling is lack of support. I'm eager to hear your opinion of the Overnight Mattress bed you ordered. Just a thought on that-- it might not be a good idea to put it on a box spring. In fact, I wasn't aware you had a real box spring at all, since most mattresses these days come with a solid foundation. Had I known I would have suggested you try taking your existing mattress off the box spring and try it on a foundation or even on the floor. Placing a mattress intended for a boxspring on a solid surface really eliminates a lot of the bounce. I know because I took an innerspring mattress off the boxspring and it hardly has any give at all now. And actually it feels pretty good on my lumbar region because my back doesn't have to strain to find support. And you might want to avoid adding any more soft foam--latex or otherwise--to the mix. I couldn't agree more with what Kait had to say about excess foam. Less is more. I'm in the process of mattress surgery myself. (And I promise a full report will be posted in the near future.) I already removed 2 1/2" of horrible soft squishy convoluted foam from the cover and it immediately made the mattress firmer and more supportive. So much so that I was able to use my 2" 4lb memory foam topper--and it still feels really firm. Now I'm about to try replacing the last remaining layer of soft convoluted foam with 1" of latex--and then I should have something to report. So far I've slept on this configuration for nearly three weeks and it's the best this bed has been since I've had it. But again, I agree with Kait--I think sleeping on foam for a lot of people --and that's any kind of foam--just ruins your back. Mine has never felt the same from the day I retired my old flippable innerspring mattress. And I don't think it's a coincidence. |
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Cloud9: Where are your pictures??? Did you see my reply before asking what down mattress topper you were using? Are you still using that? Also are you sure you want to use the latex? I am thinking of ditching mine. My shoulder is in such pain and I try to lift weights or use my Total Gym and it kills me. I have the 1" latex under the cheap foam and the 1" memory foam over that with the Cuddlebed on top. It is not working. I toss and turn after 4 hours sleep, and wake up so tired. This is very hard to get right, good luck to us all.... |
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Select Comfort was part of our research. Decided against it as we (1) found them waaaay too expensive and (2) we have a inner-spring and air combo mattress in our RV and it is okay for camping but we wouldn't want to sleep on it regularly. Have you taken a hard look at modern waterbed mattresses?? My bride has a menu of recently identified back problems from curvature of the spine to multiple failing discs. We have been sleeping on waterbed mattresses for 22 years after an almost new and expensive inner-spring mattress began to sag. Anyway, she starting having pain while trying to sleep so I simply added water to our 8 yr old mattress which firmed it up and lowered wave action and she is sleeping well. We have decided to buy one of the dual mode models so that she can have more firmness than I need and the new one will be "ultra-waveless". Waterbeds are not the shoshy and bouncey things we played on in the early 70s - they are serious sleep platforms that are also seriously less expensive than ANY spring or foam alternative. The new one will be only our third in 22 yrs and will bring our total cash investment in mattresses to just $800. We keep the mattress temperature at a very comfortably warm 89 degress (having a heated bed is sooo civilized and nice) - so if you don't have very sharp clawed cats or often sleep with sharp objects we believe that a modern waterbed has all the others beat and at prices just a fraction of the other choices. Best of Luck |
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Hi imjay, Yes, I have considered a waterbed. I used to sleep on one of the old wavey squishy waterbags when I was in my 20's and loved it! And then in my 30's I had a little more complex one with some baffling in it and that was fine, too. Finally it kept leaking at the corners and I had to get rid of it. Then, about 5 years ago I slept on my nephew's waterbed for a couple nights and that felt very good, too (his was a more modern one with baffling and maybe some foam in it?) So I am interested in water beds but when I looked at them 7 years or so ago all the ones I found that looked to be of a good quality were too expensive. May I ask if you can recommend a not-too expensive one? I am not ready to try one yet. Right now I am very happy with my new overnightmattress.com M-Grade Foam mattress. But should it become uncomfortable, I may indeed try a waterbed next... |