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Several months (going on a year) ago, I met my fiancée, and she soon began living with me. This necessitated a move from a double bed to a full-size. We bought a Spring Air plush-top mattress. I can't find a label to tell you the exact model (is it hidden someplace on the mattress?) Plush sounds good, doesn't it? Friendly. Inviting. Yet the first night I slept on it, I woke up with terrible back pain. This did not happen on my old mattress, which was just a cheap spring bed (pretty sure they were interlocking springs) with a cheap eggcrate pad. At first, I felt like the new bed was trying to cripple me. I still feel that way sometimes. I thought maybe I just needed to adjust to the new bed. But I kept waking up in pain too often, and I began to accept that there was a problem (gosh, I'd nearly forgotten about that.) So I added about 2 inches of memory foam with eggcrate surface to the new bed, and it helps some, but I still have some bad mornings where I ache, and this is after several months with the mattress (about 7 months.) My mother has actually suggested that I may be having arthritic changes in my back. But I'm only 26. And this didn't happen with my old mattress. Thing is, I'm half reluctant to believe that the mattress can actually be a bad thing. It has the plush top. Remember that friendly word? Plush! That can't possibly be bad for your back! And I invested a couple hundred in it, too. Plus there's the foam pad now. This just doesn't seem right to me. Well, let me say a few things. By nature, I sleep in any number of positions: front, side, stomach. I grew up sleeping on my stomach quite a bit. On this mattress, that seems to be out of the question. If I lie on my stomach, I feel my back bending backward. On my side, I also feel bending. So I have to sleep on my back. But like I said, I get back aches. And I suspect I may be in an abusive relationship with my bed. A bed is supposed to be someplace where it feels good to lie down when you ache. When I wake up aching, lying down on my bed doesn't make me feel better. I've taken to stuffing some blankets between the mattress and the pad. That seems to help some, too, but you know, it doesn't seem like a fix to me. It seems like something that will help the problem but not solve it. Thing is, I'm still trying to see if there is precedent for hurting like I do on a plush-top mattress, because that word just seems too friendly to possibly do me any harm. I'm starting to research things, and I'm seeing a wealth of negative reviews on Epinions, as well as reports that people can even feel uncomfortable sleeping on a memory foam mattress. So I'm starting to come around to a new way of thinking. But I need more sage advice from experts. So tell me, is my mattress, my plush-top mattress, trying to cripple me? Did I simply make a mistake in buying the low-profile box spring? What's going on here? Is plush simply not for me? Should I go back to springs? Am I going crazy and bearing false witness against an innocent mattress? |
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I've given some more time to this problem and even tried flipping the mattress upside down. And what I've decided is that they just put a plush top on a fundamentally bad mattress that provides no back support. It has to go. However, I still really wish I could have gotten some advice and support from the community here. |