memory foam mattress

[Ashgarth]

just curious if anyone has bought/tried a memory foam mattress pad (not a full mattress) or pillow before. They are very expensive and i thought before I buy something for several hundred dollars, I would chck here!

I do toss and turn a lot and have slight lower back pain so i was trying to figure out if something like this would be helpful.

thanks!

[Zen]

Isn't there somewhere you can go to try it out?
Do they offer a trial period?
I have a pillow made out of memory foam (I got it free). It's mighty nice but that doesn't help in relationship to your back issue.

[brok]

Had one, hated it, got a comfort select sleep number mattress instead. Love it, no more back pain. - Just my own personal endorsement for the sleep number bed:D

[nic840]

Use one of the memory foam matress pads on a twin bed/trundle and it works okay for the occasional guest...not sure if it would be great for full time sleep. I was not a super expensive one but my Mom was complaining that the matress was too hard...it has solved that problem.

I am in the market for a new matress too... The sleep number bed isn't a gimmick? I have heard good things but my husband isn't convinced...granted we have not tried one out yet.
Any other suggestions? - Nic

[brok]

I wasn't convinced either until I tried one - really, I love it. The only thing I have a complaint about is that it is soo light weight that it moves around (like when the dogs jump up, etc.). Not a major problem in my book. You can get it will 2 air chambers so you and your partner can select a personally desired level of air i.e. firm or not, your choice without changing the other side. I have slept better on mine than I had in years. They also have a 30 night trial.

[divingbiker]

Had one, hated it, got a comfort select sleep number mattress instead. Love it, no more back pain. - Just my own personal endorsement for the sleep number bed:D

I second this. I used to have neck and shoulder pain, and now have none. The sleep number bed is wonderful!

[madscot13]

If we are thinking the same thing I really enjoyed it. i picked the memory foam pad for my dorm bed. It made it a hundred times more comfortable. Those beds were really stiff without any cushion. the pad helped with that. If you like cushy go for it. If you like hard buy a new mattress. Mine was from Kohl's and stuff from there is always on sale.

[Nokomis]

Not so much in love with it - after the first month or so the memory foam remembers where you sleep, and those areas are more compressed than others. The middle of the bed is firmer, because it isn't slept on consistently - so there is a little bump between us.

[snapdragen]

Tempurpedic (sp?) has a trial period I believe. A friend of mine tried the mattress pad but found it too warm so he sent it back.

Sleep Number beds are cool - I tried one when I stayed at a Radisson Hotel.

[Tri Girl]

Our mattress is about 10 years old and my DH and I both have back issues. I need a soft mattress- he needs concrete hard. I bought a twin size memory foam pad for my side of the king bed and I love it! It's only a couple inches thick, but provides me with just enough support so I don't hurt. It's only minorly weird that I sleep a little higher than him at night.
We really want a sleep number bed (in-laws have one and love it), but we just can't seem to shell out the few thousand for it. Stupid, because we'll both shell out thousands for new bikes without blinking an eye- but for a good night's sleep we just can't justify spending the money. :rolleyes: I know only you ladies could understand that.

Try the thin pad and see what you think.

[KnottedYet]

I've used a memory foam pillow, but found I like my good ol' buckwheat-hull neck roll on top of my regular pillow better.

As for mattresses.... don't ask me! I sleep on a futon on a hard wood platform. My back loves it! Regular mattresses make me sore.

[7rider]

We picked up a memory foam mattress topper at Sam's club once for about $80. It was okay. Not great. We ended up getting rid of it - as it could not hide the overriding problems with the existing mattress. We got a Tempurpedic. That's okay, too - he loves it. I'm more ambivalent. One thing I've found about it, is it takes a huge effort to roll over on it. Consequently, neither of us toss and turn too much any more.

[Pax]

Tempur-pedic does offer a three month trial period, if you don't like it they take it back.

We have one and hated it for the first few nights, but after a week we decided it was heavenly! We've had it for about three years now and I'm starting to fall out of love with it, as the foam ages it becomes more susceptible to heat which means if you spew heat like I do it makes the mattress softer. By the middle of the night I'm sunk in and it makes my back sore...I called the store where I bought it and was told "sometimes that happens, you can add a mattress pad and that should help spread the heat out. :rolleyes: For a $2000 mattress I expect it to perform flawlessly for much longer than three years.

[Ashgarth]

that is kind of what I was worried about :/
I hav a feather bed right now and that happens, one of us ends up rolling to the side.....




Not so much in love with it - after the first month or so the memory foam remembers where you sleep, and those areas are more compressed than others. The middle of the bed is firmer, because it isn't slept on consistently - so there is a little bump between us.

[brok]

Tempur-pedic does offer a three month trial period, if you don't like it they take it back.

We have one and hated it for the first few nights, but after a week we decided it was heavenly! We've had it for about three years now and I'm starting to fall out of love with it, as the foam ages it becomes more susceptible to heat which means if you spew heat like I do it makes the mattress softer. By the middle of the night I'm sunk in and it makes my back sore...I called the store where I bought it and was told "sometimes that happens, you can add a mattress pad and that should help spread the heat out. :rolleyes: For a $2000 mattress I expect it to perform flawlessly for much longer than three years.

Ditto - that is my exact experience:( - I thought it was my age related thermal meltdowns:o

[emily_in_nc]

We bought a foam mattress pad when I wanted to move back to my queen-size bed with DH from a hospital bed in my living room. I was recovering from pelvic fractures and our ultra-firm mattress was just too darn hard to sleep on my bad side. We bought a 2" foam topper from Target. It called itself memory foam, I think, but it's nothing like Tempurpedic, it's more like regular foam with little slits in it, and it doesn't have any "memory".

Anyway, INSTANT comfort! DH also found that it helped with his joint and back aches and pains, and we have left it on for the past two years. We have a very good mattress set, so it was not that, but we needed something to give it a little "cush", since we went for the extra-firm, no pillow-top mattress when we picked it out a few years back.

Just my 2 cents!

Emily

[whippetgirl]

Just a heads up on the "sleep number bed." we have one and really like it.
HOWEVER, it developed mold! Inside on the air mattress part and on the foam. The company has acknowledged this problem (just do a Google search) and they very graciously replaced the air mattresses and foam at no cost, including shipping. They told us that this problem wouldn't happen with the new mattresses and foam. BUT, time will tell.
On another bed in the house, I purchased the NOVA foam topper that also has the additional down alternative topper above the foam. I picked it up at Costco which has an excellent return policy. I like it too, but not as well as the air mattress. I just hope the mold problem doesn't return....

[rachelroo]

I too have a sleep number bed, and love it but I use a memory foam pad on top of it. I think the back relief I get is from the actual bed but the pad makes it feel a little cushier. I also no longer get migranes every day since I got my mattress. I do use a memory foam pillow, I feel like the real benefit of it is that it keeps me from tossing and turning, maybe because it shapes to you rather than moving around, once I've found a good position I usually keep it.

[fatbottomedgurl]

I found this when researching for my back recently. I like the looks of it because of the heat reducing channels and cost compared to the Tempurpedic but I don't have the money right now. Good FAQ section.

http://www.healco.com/products.html

[Brandi]

Tempurpedic (sp?) has a trial period I believe. A friend of mine tried the mattress pad but found it too warm so he sent it back.

Sleep Number beds are cool - I tried one when I stayed at a Radisson Hotel.

I have a friend who has said the same thing about her bed. It is a bit warm. When they first got this bed I took a run and jump on it.....ouch! It is very hard when you first hit it. But my friend says she thinks it's ok where her husband loves it.

[jeannierides]

I, too, just came home from the hospital a few weeks ago after pelvic fractures, and found my mattress (which is a good one, with a pillow top) still too firm for me to be able to sleep. I followed Emily in NC's lead, and got a memory foam topper & it made all the difference. I love it! I got (I think) a great deal from Overstock.com. It took less than a week to get here - and came with two pillows!
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Memory-Foam-2-inch-Mattress-Topper-and-Contour-Pillows/1862668/product.html

It wasn't so expensive, that if I hated it, I'd be out a lot of money, and even if it wasn't thick enough - at 2" - I could simply cut and double it!

(Oh, and shipping is only $1 right now!)

[Geonz]

Hmmm... I'm also in the market (it is one of the things I said I would get when I sold my car :D ) ... any good experiences out there besides sleep number? (I dunno, I'm so programmed *not* to buy something I've seen TV blather about...)