Mattress Forum

Thanks.  Long as I'm not sinking in too much, should be fine.   I hope the Sam's Club mattress works out for you two.  If it does, you'll have made a huge bargain!

Friday night was ok. Little bit of ache in the morning, but not bad. But, the mattress was so firm that I had a hard time falling asleep.

Saturday I put a simple 1" memory foam topper on it. Nothing fancy- like 3lb, but just enough to help a bit. Well- that was a BAD idea.

Sunday we both woke up at 5am with excruciating back pain! I mean bad. We both promptly moved to the guest room. Of course, after about five minutes I just could not lay down anymore and had to get up. And my back hurt all day yesterday.

Sunday night we tried again mattress only, no topper. That was ok. I managed to stay on my back most of the night (I am primarily a stomach sleeper). No major pain this morning. I wouldn't say I felt refreshed, but I wasn't really in much pain either. Of course, I took an Aleve before I went to bed and only slept about 6 hours.

My husband insists that we have to give it a week before we toss it and see how it goes. So, I'll keep trying, unless I wake up with the pain like yesterday again! Then, I might be done. That said, this is really no worse than any other mattress I've had in the last six months. I just really don't know what the problem is. The pain usually goes away throughout the day and is quite frequently back in the morning when I wake up- to varying degrees. 

A friend of ours has that Sleep Science 13" Ara from Costco and he loves it. He swears it's firm, but not too firm and that you dont sink too much. I keep trying to get my husband to go lay on it with me. I know you can't tell from 5 minutes, but you can sometimes tell that quickly if you DON'T like something.

So, we'll see! Too soon to call this success or failure of my cheapo mattress adventure, but I'll keep you posted if we wind up happy or if we retreat!

Any chance you two have tried an adjustable base bed?  I've tried a few - with a Tempurpedic Cloud, iComfort and a nice Posturepedic.  All I know is when my feet are up a bit and my torso up a bit, it feels really good.  When I adjust the base to flat again, it feels bad laying flat on my back.  It just shows how much the adjustment helps.  I like to end up on a great foam mattress, then upgrade to an adjustable base in a year or so.

They are somewhat pricey, but they work with foam beds and many coil spring beds too.  They're not just for people in the hospital either.

 I've read that is pretty much always not good.  Never had a bed like this before.  Now I know....

The saying 'get a firm mattress' really means get a supportive mattress and that should mean no 'butt sinking into the bed' (hammocking effect).

Thanks.  SleepEZ must have shipped out the same night because it was on UPS ground out of Phoenix the next day!  It's due in tomorrow.  Phoenix to SF area is what, 800 miles?
 

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One note is if you get something like this, spread the cover bottom out as much as possible before putting the first layer of latex in.  I spread it out quite a bit, but when I put the first layer in, I was thinking, oh no .... I think maybe the latex is too long for the cover.  No, no.  I worked it by hand for a while to get the latex and cover in good position.  It came together and zipped up nicely.  I worked at casual pace, but it took me a good hour or so by self to unbox and put everything together.

As you may know I tend to be rather vocal, so I'll probably be on here making a lot of comments about how it is going.

Now I get to research foundations to go with this all latex mattress.  I understand slatted wood foundations are common with all latex mattresses.