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Hi, About three weeks ago, I bought both a new mattress and new bed. The mattress is a Sealy Posturpedic Proback Olympus. Here are the details of the mattress, taken directly from the website: PROBACK CoreSupport Center:
Plush comfort quilt layers:
Plush deep down comfort layers:
After about a week of sleeping on the new mattress, I started getting upper/middle back pain. It feels like it is right along the spine, near the bottom of my shoulder blades. When I first lay down on the mattress, it feels firm, but comfortable, but then I wake up in the early morning from the pain. In the past, I have never had problems with mattresses. I've had sleepovers at friend's houses with no back pain. In my first year of uni, I had to sleep on a very thin mattress in residence, and that gave me no problems. I've slept on a futon for several weeks over Christmas with no problems... Anyway, I tried a number of things to improve this, because the pain has gotten worse, and has started waking me up. First, I tried sleeping with two soft, folded-up blankets underneath me. This worked for two days, then the pain returned. I tried adding support to the bed frame by reinforcing the middle support bar with some textbooks - this worked for two days as well before the pain returned. I've tried sleeping in different areas of the mattress - middle versus side, and this also gave me pain relief for two days before it returned. Yesterday, I put a 4-inch thick layer of memory foam on my mattress, and had a good sleep, but suspect that in a day or so, the pain will return. I am totally stuck for as to what to do. My dad doesn't think that the mattress is the problem, he thinks it is the bed. I am able to return the mattress, but I have no idea what sort of mattress to exchange it for. Please help :( |
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One thing to add: When you exchange this mattress, try out others in the store, not for 30 seconds but for half an hour at least in the position you most often sleep in. Most of us are embarassed to do this and get into our sleeping positions in public, but there's a lot of money and possibly sleepless nights at stake (not to mention back pain), so you really need to take your time. Did you also buy a new box spring with the mattress you have now or is the mattress resting directly on the slats of the new bed frame? |