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Why has my mattress crapped out?

Jan 9, 2010 1:46 PM

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Or has it?

I am truly stumped by this.

As you know I bought an Englander mattress a few months back and gutted it, and replaced all the foam with: HR foam, latex foam and/or memory foam (Sensus and Venus).

I started out with it feeling great and it basically "fixed" my sore-back-in-the-morning problem I'd had for over a year.

After a few months of things being just fine, I started having some back pain. I changed the layering of my foams. I tried taking out the memory foam and having just latex and HR. I tried switching to the 2" Sensus memory foam instead of the 1" Venus. I tried the memory foam under the latex. You name it, I have tried it. But nothing is getting me back to the painless sleep I had at first.

Now, I tend to want to believe that this is "just my back", not the mattress. How could it be the mattress? The mattress is new and the foam is all high quality, and I've tried it in various depths and ILD's and types of foams and nothing is working. So it must be just my BACK. Right?

Well, yes, except that I went to visit a couple friends' homes in mid-December and I did NOT wake up with back pain, with either of those conventional mattresses. I have no idea what they were, but I'm sure they were a) old and/or b) cheap.

Help me think this through:
It can't be that the springs have worn out in less than 6 months, right? I weigh about 180 and am 5'11" tall, so it's not like they are taking a beating.
And it can't be that the foam is no good, can it? I guess of the two, it would have to be the foam. The 1" layer(s) of HR foam are 3-4 years old, so I guess it could be that, but I'm only using 1" of it in the present configuration, and it certainly doesn't look or feel as if it has given out.

So what the hell is it? What the heck changed? Is it my back or is it the mattress? And if it's my back, why does it feel better within minutes of getting out of bed, and why did it not hurt when I slept on my friends' guest room mattresses?

What do I do now?

I'm thinking I have to try replacing the HR foam - it's the weakest link. Any other ideas?

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