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Is there a big enough difference in feel of the Rhapsody and the Deluxe to warrant spending the extra money on the Rhapsody? I didn't notice much of a difference in the store, and I tried several stores with different ages of mattresses. I'm a 187 lb mostly side-sleeper with a bit too much tummy. Sometimes I sleep on my back, sometimes stomach. My physical problems are mostly bursitis in my shoulders, neck pain, leg, foot and knee pain. Usually not too much back pain, however I have started using an adjustable base and even with the head raised only a couple of inches, I was waking up with lower back, hip and waist pain on both the TP Classic and the TP Cloud Supreme. The Cloud Supreme also gave me major lower back, hip and waist pain even with the bed in the flat position, because it was too soft. That "bit too much tummy" I mentioned above caused that part of me to sink too much into the Cloud Supreme, which is what I believe was causing my hip and waist pain with that mattress. The Classic gave me numb and sore arms because it was too firm. I didn't have back pain with the Classic until I started raising the head a little. The numbness and sore arm problem was starting to get slightly better when I traded it for the Cloud, so I wonder if the Classic might eventually have worked out. Maybe I gave up on it too soon, I don't know. TP recommends both the Deluxe or the Rhapsody for my problems. Any opinion on which of those two would be best on the shoulders and not cause lower back, hip and waist pain when I have the head raised 2-4 inches, and won't let my ample tummy sink in so far that I wake up with waist pain from that either? This message was modified Aug 1, 2010 by tnpd
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tnpd wrote: I had some pain in my shoulders at first, but it went away, except for last night when I slept with the head elevated, which caused some shoulder and hip/low back pain. Probably needs to break in some more before I can sleep elevated. The mattress seems to be breaking in pretty fast. I've only slept on it for 8 nights so far. It already felt a bit softer than the store displays I tried, from the first day I slept on it. I live in one of those states where the temps have been between 90-100 most of the summer, and it was shipped from another state with the same temps and kept in their hot warehouse for a few weeks, so I assume the heat has something to do with it being softer. But amazingly I'm not sleeping hot on it at all. Sleeping hot is something a lot of people complain about with the Tempurpedics, but I only had that problem one night, and it was with the Cloud Supreme and at TP pillow.
I don't have a husband or BF, so I'm the only one sleeping in this bed, and I tend to sleep on the left side rather than the middle. Just for the heck of it this afternoon I napped on the right side to see if there was a difference, and it was considerably firmer on that side, so I could tell that the side I'm sleeping on hasn't taken very long to break in. So far I'm happy with how it feels when I'm sleeping flat. I hope I can sleep with the head elevated without shoulder or back pain once it's fully broken in. What kind of mattress protector and sheets are you using, Roy? I'm using the Tempurpedic mattress protector and a jersey bottom sheet. The combination of both feels great with this mattress. I use a regular top sheet though, because I prefer that over the jersey sheet on top of me. One night when I pulled the bedding off to wash, I temporarily used a regular quilted mattress protector and regular sheets, and the mattress felt much firmer. what do you mean by using jersey sheet as "bottom sheet"? I am confused. Thanks. |
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roy1 wrote: what do you mean by using jersey sheet as "bottom sheet"? I am confused. Thanks. What I mean about using it as a "bottom sheet" is I use the fitted jersey sheet over the Tempurpedic mattress protector, so that is the sheet I sleep on, as it allows me to feel the mattres as it should be. But I don't like the feeling of a jersey sheet on top of me, so I use a regular blended sheet as the top sheet that I pull over me when I sleep. I use a jersey pillow case on my Tempurpedic pillow, and a regular pillow case on my body pillow which isn't memory foam. I'm about 3 weeks into using my new Rhapsody, and I'm still loving it! I hate to get out of it in the morning. |
