memory foam mattress

[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. For a $2000 mattress I expect it to perform flawlessly for much longer than three years.

[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. 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

[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....