Mama to Many (TN) on 09/25/2019
He was waking up with shoulder pain and I with hip pain. I spent time researching beds and got a good bed from Costco - foam, gel something yada yada yada. Husband LOVED the bed. No more shoulder pain. For me, no more hip pain...but instead I was waking up with a new pain between my shoulder blades that required me to ice my neck/back every morning. The bed felt like concrete to me.
We were planning to return it and try something else. My chiropractor suggested a different pillow - a Bed Boss pillow for side sleepers. It is a memory foam pillow with a notch for your shoulder. She said to give it some time. It took two nights for me to become completely sold. I also got a 3 inch egg crate foam bed topper.
The pillow and bed topper have been game changers. I am sleeping better and waking up without pain. Husband does not have pain (At first the foam topper made him feel claustrophobic but he is liking it now.) If you have back pain, consider the possibility of your bed and pillow! ~ Mama to Many~
Replied by Lou from Tyler, TX on 07/07/2021
You might want to look it up—I read that memory foam causes cancer.Replied by Debbie N from Jacksonville. FL on 04/08/2024
Hey Lou, I just wanted it out there that I bought a memory foam mattress in 2014, and by the end of 2017 I had pneumonia. But, before the pneumonia, I was having back issues and could hardly sleep, tossing and turning, and then the sinus issues hit...really bad! By the end of 2017 I had got pneumonia. I stayed in my spare bedroom for a month, as not to infect my spouse, and by time my illness subsided I discovered no more sinus issues. Well, when I went back to my master bedroom and slept there for the first night, my sinus issues came back with a vengeance...it took a few days, but that's when I realized it was the new mattress! So I went on the hunt for a nontoxic mattress, and discovered it was the TOXIC CHEMICALS they put in the mattress as a FIRE RETARDANT that was making me sick! ... So I went on the hunt for a new mattress. Long story short..I got an all latex mattress, used my old (almost new) box springs. Latex mattresses have no chemicals due to the fact that latex is naturally fire retardant, Latex doesn't burn. Best mattress I have ever invested in, and they will last you more then 40 years! I hope others read this post! (and now sinus issues gone for good and haven't been sick since! )Replied by Cindy from Illinois, USA on 04/09/2024
I have the most awesome bed ever! A mattress, a twin size quilt (perfect size to top a Queen size mattress), a 2 inch feather bed topper, an original memory foam topper, which is about 20 years - which, despite the normal aged yellowing of the foam, still remembers - an old, Minnesota forestry down sleeping bag (which is also perfect Queen size, opened up with the zipper cut off), a mattress protector into which all of that fits and a thick linen cover over that. And it's all topped off with an organic linen fitted sheet. And I use another light linen fabric as the perfect blanket and it's all I need, whether it's over 100F or sub-zero weather.The best thing about it is pulling the top linen sheet that keeps me cool in summer and warm in winter only half way up in winter, sleeping until I wake up cold, then pulling it up to my chin and feeling it warm up and warm me up in a matter of seconds. Linen has just always awed me and awes me still, even after all these decades! And I LOVE being awed!!
Not only does linen wick sweat which then cools the skin by evaporation in the air from the windows and provide moisture to dry skin in winter, both, it also switches from warming to cooling and back again, as needed, very quickly. It's a marvel!
I'm not an 8 hour sleeper but I DO take my sleeping seriously, ROFL! PLUS, I don't particularly like the mattress at the bottom of it all but, it's like new and tossing it isn't an option so I just sort of built another multi-tasker of a mattress on top of it. An AWEsome mattress! Like it came straight from the magical world of Narnia! It's hard to even just walk past without laying down and rolling all over it!!
